There is a port on the Gulf of Aden that empires keep finding indispensable. Berbera, on the coast of what is today Somaliland, has served for three centuries as a barometer of great-power ambition in ...

Kenya has 40 million adults but only 22 million registered voters, with 8 million abstaining. Voter apathy is evident as few register. The typical voter is disengaged, raising concerns for future ...

Fortunately, life took a while to kill him, but not long enough for us to get used to his absence from our midst. Because Meja Mwangi always looked ahead to Kenya’s future, even when it still ...

Six years after COVID-19, the world is facing another pandemic. It is a little-known disease but very destructive: rhetorical exoticism – mentioning the woes or wonders of some remote place to make a ...

On 15 December 2025, the cabinet approved two funds proposed in President William Ruto’s 2025 State of the Nation address: the National Infrastructure Fund and the Sovereign Wealth Fund. Together, ...

CHRISTINE MUNGAI travelled to western Kenya to meet farmers who had only good things to say about One Acre Fund’s activities in their communities, as the organization fills a gap created by the ...

This podcast episode examines Kenya’s political landscape, focusing on youth support for Sifuna, the search for new leaders, national aspirations, public sentiment toward current leadership, and ...

On 20 March 2024, in the sweltering heat of the newly minted Borteyman Sports Complex tennis courts, a resounding triumph was etched in the annals of Kenyan sports history. Angella Okutoyi cemented ...

Kenya is in an argument between its past and its future. Some might say that this argument has been brewing for a long time, and they’d be right. Every day that Kenya has spent as “Kenya” has been a ...

In the coastal, Indian state of Goa with no end of charismatic churches, the Mae de Deus Church in Saligao, Bardez, is an arresting sight. The neo-gothic, quaintly ribbed, avant-garde design is more ...

In the face of the Ethiopian government’s failure to comply with the provisions of the Pretoria Peace Agreement, the TPLF must urgently seek to have the accord amended and demand its enforcement. As ...

The lack of a focused policy since the 1990s has pushed the cashew nut sector into perennial decline. The sector’s disintegration started when the state-owned Kenya Cashewnut factory ollapsed in 1997 ...