Picture a tout hanging off the door of a matatu on Ngong Road, wind cutting through his jacket, eyes scanning the street for the next passenger. He is not in any tourism brochure. No politician has ever name-dropped him in…
Every single day, Nairobi generates 3,200 tonnes of garbage. Let that number sit with you for a moment. That is not a statistic buried in some government report nobody reads. That is the weight of a city slowly suffocating under…
Let’s be honest about what happened in Conakry on Thursday night. Kenya’s Harambee Stars lost 1-0 to Guinea in a 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier, and head coach Benni McCarthy is not staying quiet about it. He shouldn’t. Because…
The Work Was Done. The Money Never Came. Imagine showing up to teach, doing the work, marking the papers, and then waiting — not for weeks, not for months, but for an entire decade — to be paid. That is…
People are dying. Not on a battlefield, not from a disease with a complicated name — they are dying in Kiambu and Kirinyaga because someone, somewhere, mixed chemicals in a backroom and sold the result as alcohol. Deputy President Kithure…
Three young Kenyans are about to do something no Kenyan has ever done before — compete at a Pan African Karting Championship. And this isn’t just another regional tournament buried in the sports pages. This is the first edition of…
At 2am on a rural road in Mwea, Catherine Mwende Njeru and her husband Anthony Muturi were doing something completely ordinary — waiting for a boda boda to take them to their farm in Rupingazi to irrigate crops and pick…
Three young men walked out of court this week as free men, not because they were found innocent, but because the church they attacked chose forgiveness over prosecution. George Omondi, Effernburg Wanyama, and Fredrick Omondi had spent three months in…
The Moment Kenya Felt Vulnerable There is a moment every Kenyan remembers — queues at the petrol station, prices spiking without warning, and the government scrambling to explain why a country that imports virtually all its fuel was suddenly at…
Kenya lost. Again. But does it actually matter? Thursday night in Conakry, the Harambee Stars walked into the Stade du 28 Septembre and came out with nothing. Guinea’s Serhou Guirassy — one of Europe’s most clinical strikers — needed just…
