Kenya is where it is because Kenyan institutions have remained solidly colonial and have stagnated, blocking Kenyans from building their own country.

One topic that has not gained prominence in the climate change discussions is that of land rights and tenure rights, and how all the planned climate action will impact these rights in Africa. With 90 ...

Somaliland’s move towards violence has reached the level of a political crisis. Indeed, a successful electoral record has not resulted in resilient formal institutions that can mediate inter-party ...

Kenya's tax incentives, aimed at boosting economic sectors, raise concerns. With tax expenditures averaging KSh383.9 billion over five years, experts argue the funds could address debt and support ...

The Tanzanian government is threatening to evict more than 80,000 Maasai from the Ngorongoro world heritage site, claiming that the Maasai must be cleared from their land in the interests of ...

Under the terms of the proposed Pandemic Treaty and the Amended International Health Regulations, the ministries of health around the globe will be reduced to mere servants of the WHO in the event of ...

The lack of a focused policy since the 1990s has pushed the cashew nut sector into perennial decline. The sector’s disintegration started when the state-owned Kenya Cashewnut factory ollapsed in 1997 ...

In this the first of a two-part series, Wandia Njoya traces how Kenyan politics deteriorated to the level of the grotesque, where grandeur, obscene wealth, crass contempt and spectacular violence ...

To clinch the African Union Commission Chair, Kenya will have to cautiously court its neighbours and navigate the existing regional rivalries to receive their full backing.

Beneath the veneer of empty platitudes about acknowledging Africa’s role in conserving biodiversity and mitigating climate change, the Africa Climate Summit was mere geopolitics at play, with the West ...

East Africa was one of the places that European Jews considered as a potential homeland in the early twentieth century but a proposal wrongly called the Uganda Plan, because the Uasin Gishu plateau ...

Coupled with a military not inclined to political experiments, Kenya’s lengthy history of civic-based activism has helped the country a great deal.