The Song That Took Over Nairobi’s Earphones Picture this: it’s four minutes past ten in the morning — saa kumi, in Swahili time — and somewhere across Nairobi, someone is pressing replay. Again. Ywaya Tajiri’s “Chai ya Saa Kumi” has…
Rigathi Gachagua is not going quietly. That much is clear. While courts deliberate on whether his impeachment stands — and whether he will ever be allowed to contest elective office again — Kenya’s former Deputy President has already made his…
The Opportunity Is Here. The System Isn’t Ready. A furniture maker in Nairobi gets an enquiry from a hotel in Kigali. A fashion retailer in Nakuru pulls a customer in Lusaka through an Instagram post. A Mombasa developer gets a…
Kenya didn’t wait to be invited. It showed up first. When Kenya signed on as a founding member of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO) in Shanghai on July 16, 2026, it made a calculated bet that most African…
This Is Not Someone Else’s Fight On July 16, 2026, residents of Ol Kalou armed themselves with whatever they had and chased away vehicles carrying hooded gunmen who attempted to storm a polling station at AC Primary School. Let that…
Picture a room in Toronto, Canada. Legal scholars and political thinkers sit around a table, debating the architecture of global justice. Among them is Makau Mutua — SUNY Distinguished Professor, international law heavyweight, and a man who has spent decades…
Here is the uncomfortable truth nobody in power wants to say out loud: if your history, your language, your land don’t exist in the data, they don’t exist to the machine. And right now, the machines are winning. Africa has…
Picture this: it is early morning in Ol Kalou, a constituency most Kenyans associate with the cold highland air and the mountains of potatoes, carrots and cabbages that keep the country fed. Voters have risen before dawn, queued patiently outside…
A Prison, a Nickname, and Years of Silence Before the International Criminal Court shut down his legal escape route, Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri was simply known inside Mitiga prison as “the angel of death.” That nickname was not handed…
A man is dead. Nine motorcycles are ash. A police vehicle is wrecked. And two competing narratives about what happened this weekend are now circling each other like fighters before a brawl. The thesis here is simple and uncomfortable: Kenya’s…
