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Health freedom advocates are deeply concerned that public health is moving away from a human rights orientation towards an increasingly authoritarian one.
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 ...
Oil production in Kenya – at whose cost? How pastoralists, oil workers and land rights activists in northern Kenya are resisting oil companies.
A triple heritage forms the background to Kavirondo: The Story of Luos and Luhyas, a book that explores the writer’s multiple identities.
The best ideas in global health and development often come from the margins. So why do we still ignore them?
“African Solutions for African Problems” rings hollow as the AU continues to rely on external support to finance its core functions and programmes, especially in conflict resolution and peacekeeping.
In Washington’s think tank ecosystem, Africa is treated as a low-stakes arena where performance substitutes for knowledge. The result: unqualified actors shaping policy on behalf of militarists, ...
Mutunga interrogates the tagging of protesters in Kenya’s mass action as terrorists and unveils acts of terrorism and the perpetrators that should be so characterized.