As Gen Z looks ahead, the focus is shifting toward consolidating the gains of the revolution and translating momentum into lasting political power. In this episode, we speak with Sophie Mugure, a Gen ...

Africa’s post-colonial promise of democratization that began in the 1980s and 1990s with the “second independence” struggles now confronts a defining and painful reckoning. The optimism that ...

The protests in Nepal this week were unprecedented. In just 48 hours, a disparate movement of largely young people throughout major towns and cities brought down the entire political establishment ...

From the colonial classroom to today’s exam halls, student strikes in Kenya are less outbursts than acts of political imagination—insisting that schools live up to their promise of justice and ...

A new story map, Trans-Saharan Route Then and Now, traces this evolution across key nodes — from the Central to the Western and Eastern Trans Sahara Migration Corridor — highlighting how the economic ...

It seems inevitable that oil in Turkana will be extracted and turned into money. But who makes sure that the landowners themselves benefit from this wealth? What does “development” really mean in ...

One day in 2018, I walked into Huduma Centre at the General Post Office in Nairobi for some government service. When I handed over my identity card, the attendant looked at it and raised his eyebrows ...

Amidst Kenya’s #RejectFinanceBill protests, as the echoes of dissent reverberate through the streets, a generation rises to challenge the pillars of a colonial legacy that still looms large. Dominated ...

In the wake of Frantz Fanon’s 100th birthday, Sam Chian offers a close reading of The Wretched of the Earth, arguing that Fanon’s primary intervention lies in his class analysis of colonial societies.

The current unrest in Kenya, which is being kept in motion by its youngest adults, cannot be looked at in isolation from the troubles on the rest of the continent, just in terms of difference. The ...

My son, I look at you now, with that same hopeful glint in your eyes, and a part of me aches, knowing what shadows might yet fall across your path. I suspect I know your despair, for I too was once ...

On the evening of 28 May 2025, my elder sister Janet informed me that Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o had left us. She thought I needed to know – and she was right: my family knows that I have a decades-old deep ...