Opinion

There was nothing remotely progressive that came to mind as we watched the mainly female staff from NuPEA cowering under...

The High Court's decision on the date of Kenya's next General Election has triggered one of the most important constitutional...

When the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) warns that it may be unable to conduct the 2027 General Election...

Every election cycle in Kenya seems to produce the same argument, dressed in different clothes. We are told that voters...

Prof. Peter Anyang' Nyong'o's Road to Singapore deserves serious reading because it arrives when Kenya is preparing to leave Vision...

Bulldozers and construction crews are reshaping parts of Nairobi’s best-known informal settlement, Kibera. In a video shared by President William...

One of the oldest principles of good leadership is remarkably simple: do not fix what is not broken. Equally important,...

Whenever a serious failure occurs inside a public institution in Kenya, responsibility often becomes strangely difficult to locate. Information was...

Today, Africa CDC releases the Operational Toolkit for the Prevention, Diagnosis and Management of Hepatitis B. It is a deliberately...

The 2010 Constitution was born out of deep public mistrust of Kenya's institutions, and few carried a heavier burden than...

Political analysis usually begins by asking whether an incumbent government is becoming stronger or weaker. That question matters, but it...

Sometime in April 1945 – towards the end of the Second World War – then British Prime Minister Winston Churchill...

There is a word that every Kenyan has grown familiar with over the past decade: debt. From the Standard Gauge...

Every election tells a story. Some tell us who won. Others tell us where a country is heading. The Ol...

In December 2021, the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) made a quiet but consequential move. Following the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of...

Every election leaves behind lessons that matter more than the result itself, whether from a court judgment, a political miscalculation,...

On March 25, 2026, President William Ruto stood before delegates at the International Conference on Nuclear Energy in Nairobi and...

There is a fine line between support and dependency. Support empowers. Dependency enslaves. History repeatedly demonstrates that individuals, families, organizations, and even...

Conventional political analysis begins with the incumbent. Is the government becoming more popular? Is the economy improving? Have government policies...

Imagine a genie appears before you, offering three wishes. Each one will permanently solve a piece of the climate crisis,...

Cannabis, known locally as bhang, is illegal in Kenya. Possession or use carries a penalty of up to 10 years...

Every few years, Kenya launches another program aimed at solving youth unemployment, and each time the ritual unfolds in familiar...

There is something deeply unsettling happening in our country lately. It is not new. It is something I have witnessed...

By midday on June 25, Nairobi once again looked like a city forced to remember what power would rather manage....

The controversy over the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA)’s new vehicle inspection rules is not really about cars. It...

ESCP defines corporate governance as ‘’ the framework of rules, practices, and processes (and checks and balances) by which a...

In a country where universities have traditionally been judged by the number of graduates they produce, a new proposition is...

iColo uses 40% of its total power consumption to cool its 1 megawatt NBO-1 data centre in Karen. The soon-to-be-commissioned...

We are two weeks into the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with the knockout rounds starting after the group stages concluded. On...

South Africa is in the midst of its most significant anti-immigrant mobilisation in years. The emergence of the March and March...