During the recent Dutch election debate in October, populist politician Geert Wilders, leader of the extreme right-wing PVV party, made a controversial remark. While making a case for zero percent VAT ...
In the early 2000s, during one of the prolonged strikes of the Academic Staff Union of Universities that shuttered Nigerian campuses for months, I encountered an essay in the Nigerian Tribune that ...
After a shared national loss, we’re only just beginning the journey of relinquishing memory. In another future, Raila – the man who stood as tall as the ageless baobab tree in the expanse of the ...
I first heard Raila Odinga’s name around 1992, when I was six. My father was running for a councillor’s seat, and politics was the soundtrack of our home. Raila’s name hovered constantly, uttered ...
Can you hide from state surveillance? What happens when state surveillance is used on a nation’s citizens to restrict their freedom? Kenya had nationwide protests in 2024. But while protests were ...
The Poisoned Bouquet: How European Giants Exploit African and Latin American Labor to Keep Flowers Cheap ...
The Poisoned Bouquet: How European Giants Exploit African and Latin American Labor to Keep Flowers Cheap ...
The Kenyan public stands in awe, and a somber bewilderment permeates the atmosphere following the sudden ascension of Raila Amolo Odinga into the ancestral realm. As the saying goes, “Revolutionaries ...
Two years on from the Gen Z revolution that reshaped the country’s political landscape, much has been said and written about its impact. While many have since moved on, a core group of pioneers and ...