• Keith Ang'ana

What does it benefit a man to gain a finance bill but lose his country?

• Gathanga Ndung’u

For some years now, the people of Eastlands in Nairobi have been remaking the city in their own image of green development.

• William Shoki

This week on the AIAC podcast we’re talking about #RejectFinanceBill2024 and #RutoMustGo, the youth-led movements against Kenya’s out-of-touch elites.

• Kari Mugo

The movement to #RejectFinanceBill2024 marks a new era in Kenyan politics after many years of discontent and political apathy.

• Rasna Warah

Kenyan youth are leading popular protests against regressive tax reforms that will worsen the country’s worsening cost of living crisis.

• Kamande Kinyanjui

Why are Kenya’s doctor’s on strike?

• Sobukwe Shukura

Kenya’s plan to send 1,000 police officers to Haiti undermine's the country's fragile sovereignty.

• Makena Maganjo

Israel’s strategy of economic partnership and development support to Kenya is a bid to legitimize its ailing international reputation.

• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

A tribute to the late Kenyan poet, playwright and activist, Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo (December 12, 1942-June 30, 2023).

• Adam Yawe

In Nairobi, skateboarding provides an alternative space where consumption is not a prerequisite for entry.

• Makena Maganjo

Kenya is one of Israel’s closest allies in Africa. But the Ruto-led government isn’t alone in silencing pro-Palestinian speech.

• Brock Hicks

The marketization of climate action, epitomized by Kenyan president William Ruto, allows the super-rich to buy their safety while the rest of us are left behind.

• Adrian Wilson
• Faith Kasina
• Irene Nduta
• Jethron Ayumbah Akallah

Access to water in Nairobi is horribly unequal. The World Bank, Nairobi Water Company, and development economists exploited this unjust context to treat poor Kenyans like guinea pigs.

• Dawson McCall

The successes of elite Kenyan athletes should not distract from the ways ordinary Kenyans are using it to make meaning for themselves.

• Christine Mungai

One cannot fully appreciate Kenya’s normative Christianity and its particular obsession with public piety without appreciating the legacy of the East African revival.

• Brock Hicks

Kenyan president William Ruto has reinvented himself as Africa's climate champion. But, his policy contradictions reveal that this is just his latest hustle

• Raphael Kariuki

How a new underground club in Nairobi offers Kenyans respite from the harshness of everyday life.

• Dauti Kahura

In Kenya, elected office does not represent a duty to represent ordinary citizens, but an opportunity for personal enrichment.

• Mukoma wa Ngugi

In Kenya, political elites across the spectrum are trying to sell off the country for themselves—capitulation is inevitable.

• Edith Amoafoa-Smart

For Binyavanga Wainaina, writing about Africa means to to write honestly, benching any attempts to categorize our lived experiences in language that could never accommodate them.