The call came in at around 4 p.m. “Kobuthi, it’s Brian from primo.” “Oh, sema Brayo, long time, man.” “I’m good, bro.” After the usual pleasantries, there was a long pause. A deep sigh in Brian’s ...

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” Antonio Gramsci In 1994, I was a fresh, naïve, graduate of a Bachelor’s of Education degree, believing ...

Muthoni Drummer Queen, Kenya’s genre-bending rapper and Blankets & Wine founder, channels the Gen Z uprising in her latest reflections. “We the people shall rise,” she declares, amplifying youth-led ...

I am thirty-seven years old, childless by circumstance and by choice. I’m still learning how to name it. I live in a small rural town where the road thins into red dust and silence arrives before ...

They were born into a nascent democracy, weaned on the rhetoric of liberalisation, Structural Adjustment Programs, and globalisation. Theirs was to be the dividend of the new constitution, a ...

Kenyan millennials have become a generation in limbo: the defining cohort of a betrayed promise. This edition asks with ...

July 5, 2025. I get a call from my colleague, Eve. “Ty, please come to the venue right now”. This was strange as I wasn’t supposed to show up until two hours later. She, however, sounded very worried, ...

In signing the 2021 Defence Agreement with the UK, Kenya lost an opportunity to put an end to the impunity with which BATUK soldiers have been involved in abuses against Kenyans. Dr. Owiso Owiso is an ...

The last quarter of 2025 jolted Kenya’s political landscape like no other; Raila Odinga, arguably Kenya’s most visible politician in the last three decades, joined his ancestors on the morning of ...

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 would be right. Every day that Kenya has spent as “Kenya” has been ...

Detained on 28 July 2025 after being shot by police on the first day of Angola’s taxi drivers’ strike, Serrote José de Oliveira — widely known as “General Nila” — has been held for over six months ...