Capitalism Mtaani at the Dandora dumpsite
In the third video for our Nairobi edition of Capitalism in My City, Gacheke Gachihi visits a site of environmental injustice.
In the third video for our Nairobi edition of Capitalism in My City, Gacheke Gachihi visits a site of environmental injustice.
Ordinary working-class people have been forced to the belief that there can never actually be real solutions; stripped of the confidence that fundamental change can happen.
Just ten nations have administered 75% of the vaccines worldwide. Countries like South Africa are being left behind.
Climate activists and leftists should tread cautiously when they use the climate argument to support fossil fuel subsidy reform in Africa.
I’ve lived a good part of my life in Mathare 4A, part of the larger Mathare slum in Nairobi. Decent housing remains a pipe dream for the majority of the city's residents.
The pan-African left should greet Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s likely promotion at the World Trade Organization with extreme caution.
The global public health industry is complicit in the reproduction of “the African tragedy.”
Exploring the different neighborhoods within Mogadishu raises the question: who is this city really for?
How is it that water flows freely and cheaply in Nairobi's wealthy neighborhoods, but thousands of people in informal settlements are denied access to it?
The destruction of Tarkwa Bay in Lagos and the battle over what makes a city and who belongs in it.
The coronavirus shut down in Ghana exposes the weaknesses and inequities in the country’s education system.
Race reductionism is stunting the possibility for radical change in an ever unequal South Africa.
COVID-19 has been used to justify xenophobia and anti-Asian racism, but a white South African woman’s hoarding behavior illustrates the global anti-black and anti-poor response to crises.
Who will watch the police and the army in South Africa as they act on behalf of the state to enforce COVID-19 regulations.
President Museveni announces 14-day lockdown as market vendors are beaten, the sick unable to move to hospitals and the wealthy bunker down in their solar-powered homes.
Nigerians’ anger and frustration are deservedly directed to their government. But few point to the special breed of Nigerians: the "Crazy Rich Nigerians."
Philanthropy and celebrities are not enough to remedy the inequalities that persist in Kenya.
Poor Nairobi residents pay close to four times more for water that is much less clean, adequate or consistent.
There is very little self-made about Nigeria's young, rich and glamorous like oil magnate Paddy Adenuga and DJ Cuppy.
Do online movements such as #MeToo #HerToo and #TimesUp do enough to address the experiences of all victims of sexual violence?