“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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Silas Nyanchwani is a writer and journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Illegal/Irregular Allocation of Public Land (in Kenya) presented to President Mwai Kibaki June 2004. Companies, Road By-Passes, Road Reserves, ...

Chinedu Chukwudinma, Christopher J. Lee and Bettina Engels introduce special issue 186, Volume 52 of the journal, dedicated to honouring the centenary of the Martiniquais-Algerian revolutionary Frantz ...