Gen Z and the spirit of Mau Mau
Kenya’s largest-ever protests have drawn striking comparisons to the Mau Mau uprising. But for today’s movement to endure, it must move beyond the streets and invest in political education.
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All pull together
The 2025 Kenyan protests once again declared themselves “tribeless, leaderless, partyless.” But what does the idiom of unity hide?
Kenya’s femicide problem
A lack of reliable statistics and coherent strategy to address femicide in Kenya, has left a culture of everyday insecurity for women in the country.
Kenya’s vibe shift
From aesthetic cool to political confusion, a new generation in Kenya is navigating broken promises, borrowed styles, and the blurred lines between irony and ideology.
The bones beneath our feet
A powerful new documentary follows Evelyn Wanjugu Kimathi’s personal and political journey to recover her father’s remains — and to reckon with Kenya’s unfinished struggle for land, justice, and historical memory.
The memory keepers
A new documentary follows two women’s mission to decolonize Nairobi’s libraries, revealing how good intentions collide with bureaucracy, donor politics, and the ghosts of colonialism.
Good revolutions talk back
As political discontent rises in Kenya, silencing women’s and queer rights in the pursuit of economic justice risks compromising the movement entirely.
The fight for justice in Kenya’s narrative
Kenya’s youth are turning to theater, music, and film as tools of resistance against political injustices and systemic failures.
Beats, borders, and the struggle for freedom
Amid global political turmoil and restrictive visa policies, artists are redefining resistance — on the dance floor and beyond.
The inheritance of hope
Through political turmoil and broken promises, Kenyans hold fast to hope — an enduring force that fuels resilience and dreams of a brighter future.
Citizens for hire
Kenya’s labor export model treats citizens as commodities, exploiting workers for remittances while neglecting domestic job creation.
Gen Z, Riggy G, and the Kenyan pornocracy
In a political landscape defined by opportunism, spectacle, and betrayal, Kenya’s youth-led protests offered a fleeting glimpse of change — only to be ensnared by the same system they sought to challenge.
Ruto’s Kenya
Since June’s anti-finance bill protests, dozens of people remain unaccounted for — a stark reminder of the Kenyan state’s long history of abductions and assassinations.
Chimurenga Maitũ
Decolonial African feminism and the revolutionary lives of three mothers of Kenya.
The freedom to move
Hiking as Kenyans in Kenya is pathbreaking, both literally and metaphorically.
The keyboard warriors are winning
Digital activism is playing a significant role in amplifying the impact of the #RejectFinanceBill2024 and #RutoMustGo protests, but how effective can it ultimately be?
When a star dies
On the tragic death of 24-year-old marathon record holder Kelvin Kiptum.
The mad man
As he loses his grip on power, Kenya’s president is losing the plot.
Nairobi’s disastrous flood response
Days before mass protests broke out across Kenya, the national government enacted a mass, unjustified forced removal campaign across Nairobi.
Kenya’s third liberation movement
It's no longer just about the finance bill. Kenyans want fundamental change.