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Mutunga celebrates the Gen Z Revolution in Kenya, highlighting the successes of their collective leadership through analysis of the Kenyan government's attempt to stifle celebrations of the Martyrs of ...
REVENGE OF THE NERDS: Big data and the millennials’ digital dilemma ...
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s decolonial writings are a brave and persistent attempt to recover African histories, voices, and futures.
Afandi Bande is a political economy thinker exploring the intersection of governance and economic development. Her work interrogates how power, institutions, and policy choices enable—or hinder—human ...
Demas Kiprono is Deputy Executive Director – ICJ Kenya.
Departing from the spirit of the 2010 Constitution that was designed to actively bring about significant social change, lawmakers have resorted to passings laws that seek to suppress public criticism ...
Muoki Mbunga is Assistant Professor of History at Tufts University. His most recent publication is Who Deserves to Die? The Moral Logic of Mau Mau Killings in Colonial Kenya, 1952–56.
Kabubu Mutua grew up in Machakos county, Kenya. His short story, ‘Small Mercies’, was longlisted for the 2021 Afritondo Short Story Prize. It was later published in The Hope, The Prayer, The Anthem ...
The June 25 protests are a political and social reset, and for those agitating for good governance, this movement defies tribal tropes, class cleavages and generational schisms.
On June 25, 2024, Kenya turned a page in its history. What began as a protest against a controversial tax bill quickly escalated into something far more powerful—and tragic. Fueled by frustration and ...
The Maandamano of June 2024 reminded us that resistance is not just what happens in the streets. It is also what happens in the clinics, in courtrooms, in code, in verse, and in the conviction of ...
Willy Mutunga was Chief Justice and President of the Supreme Court, Kenya, 2011–2016. He is Adjunct Professor of Public Law, Kabarak Law School, Nakuru, Kenya.