• Wangui Kimari

The Mathare Social Justice Centre mounts a photography exhibition on police brutality and extrajudicial killings in Kenya’s capital.

• Peter Lockhood

Kenya’s elites, including the church, use ponzi schemes for predatory accumulation and Kenyans will continue to see their dreams deferred if the law doesn't change.

• Boima Tucker

Africa Is a Country Radio continues its season focused on African club culture. Our next stop is Nairobi with Kenyan journalist and radio programmer Bill Odidi. Listen on Worldwide FM.

• Nicholas Githuku
• Robert M. Maxon

Three years on, the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), initiated by Kenya's President, Uhuru Kenyatta, with former opposition leader, Raila Odinga, feels like an elite pact with no popular support.

• Sloan Mahone

How racialized intellectual outputs placed in just the right circumstances can do the most damage.

• Smith Ouma

Nairobi is already witnessing the sidelining of democratic institutions. Now a new city management agency is further excluding the public.

• Mathare Social Justice Centre

In the second video from our Capitalism In My City project, Dennis Esikuri talks to everyday Nairobians about the current employment opportunities in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic.

• Samantha Balaton-Chrimes

The vagueness around who is and isn’t a “tribe of Kenya” is a double-edged sword. The persistence of ethnic classification and counting can be pernicious.

• Andrew Harvey

The loss of African languages, their link with identity, and their role in forging decolonial futures.

• Lewis Mwaura

Why is Nairobi's government terrorizing hawkers and hustlers around the city? An anthropological perspective.

• Samar Al-Bulushi

African states are involved in the War on Terror more than we think. They're surrounded by an eco-system of the war industry.

• Mathare Social Justice Centre

In the first video from a series for the Capitalism In My City project, Brian Mathenge decodes what everyday capitalism looks like from the margins of Nairobi.

• Wandia Njoya

How is Kenya's "new middle class" contributing to a pervasive low-quality oppression that leaves Kenyans feeling hopeless?

• Dauti Kahura

Many of Nairobi's apocalypse merchants and prophesy peddlers have disappeared in the past year. Reflections on how COVID-19 has re-shaped the city and residents' lives.

• Hanno Brankamp

Behind the anxieties about tackling forced displacement and terror, is the recognizable lexicon of racialized difference. This all infuses the practice of humanitarianism.

• Tracey Nichols

2020 has given us an archive of heart-breaking examples of the politically transformative power of care.

• Adriaan van Klinken

A key part of Maathai's work was how she creatively engaged with religious traditions, including Christianity and the Bible. Admittedly, her stance was somewhat complex.

• Rasna Warah

Cities will continue to exist and grow despite the coronavirus crisis because of the distinctly human need for social interaction, physical contact, and collaboration.

• Lucy Wambui

Drug use among young people in Nairobi's slums is on the rise. Youth also face arbitrary arrests by the police, resulting in jail time which turns them into hardcore criminals in a vicious cycle.

• Dan Aceda
• Juliet Atellah

Tracing the music, from 1978 to the 2000s, that defined the rule of former Kenyan president Daniel Torotich Arap Moi.