A few weeks into the protests that were sparked off by the Kenya government’s belligerent persistence in passing the Finance Bill, the government spokesman, Isaac Maura, held a presser in which he ...

The United Nations has intensely popularised the “climate crisis” but critics hold that the “green” ideology is designed to keep low and middle income countries under the yoke of perpetual poverty.

Even as the August 2022 general election approaches, the land question remains unanswered. And with the uncertainty as to who will win the presidency, which remains the centre of power despite ...

The world is in polycrisis. From the Russia-Ukraine war in Europe, the Israel-Hamas fighting in the Middle East, the conflict in Sudan and in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the coups in West ...

As of 30th June 670 million people experienced insufficient food consumption globally according to the World Food Programme’s Hunger Map. Moreover, the findings from the 2023 Global Report on Food ...

There is a new book out on Rwanda that, for various reasons, has made quite some “waves”: Michela Wrong’s Do not disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad (published end ...

Studies of Africa and its diasporas have largely been framed through the paradigms of Pan-Africanism and developmentalism. The persistent and pressing demands of Pan-African unity and African ...

At the core of the current debate surrounding the recent Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Ethiopia and Somaliland lie three major interests: Somalia’s unity, territorial integrity, and ...

Experts on the study of corruption distinguish between political corruption and bureaucratic corruption. Political corruption involves vote-rigging, registration of unqualified voters, falsification ...

It is not an accident that much of the narrative war is being fought on social media. Social media is fertile ground for having one sided debate. For the elites, it is a place where captured attention ...

In a short audiovisual promo on John Pombe Magufuli, the narrator lists eight reasons “why he is Africa’s most beloved president”. He describes the Magufuli as an “outlier”, a “hard worker”, a ...

With the declared outbreak of COVID-19 in December 2019, the world changed in ways most of us could not have possibly anticipated – “contact tracing”, “social distancing”, meticulous handwashing, ...