• Nikita Bernardi

The writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o on the Kenyan government’s habit of inhibiting the country’s talents.

• Dylan Valley
• Africa Is a Country

Afripedia is a visual guide to contemporary urban culture on the continent.

• Noosim Naimasiah

• Wangui Kimari

Why the wall Kenya is building on its border with Somalia is a terrible idea.

• Liz Timbs

• Laila Rupani

• Binyavanga Wainaina

"I want to go to a place . . . where we can find the names of all those who have died for Kenya since 1963." — Binyavanga Wainaina.

• Africa Is a Country

For starters, you may want to switch off television news, especially "global news networks," and follow local media as well as the people below on social media.

• Phoebe Boswell

How an Italian hotelier came to represent Kenya at the Venice Biennale.

• Alice de Vries

A new documentary film offers a dignified and moving counterweight to how we in the West think - in static, sometimes pathologizing images - of kids elsewhere.

• Katarina Hedrén

Essuman believes that confining any storyteller to labels like "African stories" is a disservice to the story and the one telling it.

• Mark Kaigwa

• Dan Moshenberg

In Kenya, women are organizing against the gender and moral police. Theyr'e using hashtags: #SavetheMiniskirt, #StripMeNot and #MyDressMyChoice.

• Katarina Hedrén

Filmmaker Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann sees film as a powerful tool to inspire compassion by briefly letting us live another’s life and expand our understanding.

• Dennis Laumann

A fateful meeting with Mazrui, the famed Kenyan historian and broadcaster.

• Oumar Ba

Uhuru Kenyatta went to The Hague to defend himself against charges of war crimes. He's always managed to stay one step ahead of the Court.

• Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann

How much longer must we take everything with a pinch of salt or search for ways to laugh through the pain in our hearts? How much of our personal freedom and security do we have to sacrifice?

• Stephanie Diepeveen

• Mara Kardas-Nelson

Culturally and geographically separated from mainland Kenya, Lamu offers a rare window into the past and the woes and wonders of modern development.

• María Ximena Plaza

The actress Lupita Nyong'o was born in Mexico, who wanted to claim her Oscar win. But why should she owe the Oscar to Mexico, a country with such high levels of racism?