Health freedom advocates are deeply concerned that public health is moving away from a human rights orientation towards an increasingly authoritarian one.

Oil production in Kenya – at whose cost? How pastoralists, oil workers and land rights activists in northern Kenya are resisting oil companies.

Wandia Njoya reflects on Dr. Joyce Nyairo’s Kenya@50, admitting she only grasped its true meaning a decade later, after confronting Kenya’s stories and struggles through the bruising battle over the ...

The current unrest in Kenya, which is being kept in motion by its youngest adults, cannot be looked at in isolation from the troubles on the rest of the continent, just in terms of difference. The ...

A triple heritage forms the background to Kavirondo: The Story of Luos and Luhyas, a book that explores the writer’s multiple identities.

Yet again, the people of Kano are facing the humiliation of lining up to receive relief food, having abandoned their homes due to the flooding that is exposing them to untold hardship, a recurring ...

In a major exposé of the ‘fintech revolution’ in Africa, Milford Bateman and Fernando Amorim Teixeira write that the investor-driven fintech model is nothing less than a ‘digitalised’ extension of the ...

The best ideas in global health and development often come from the margins. So why do we still ignore them?

Abu Bakarr Bah is a Presidential Research Professor at the Northern Illinois University.

In the wake of Frantz Fanon’s 100th birthday, Sam Chian offers a close reading of The Wretched of the Earth, arguing that Fanon’s primary intervention lies in his class analysis of colonial societies.