The United Nations declared 2024 the International Year of Camelids to celebrate the contribution of camelids to food security, nutrition, economic growth, and the Sustainable Development Goals. Over ...

One thing ordinary white people seem prone to forgetting, is just how deeply they are despised by the elite class of their own societies, a thing that has led to immense historical delusions with many ...

The Kenyan society is yet to decide what the 2024 protests meant for the country, and its citizens, and where to situate it in a long history of agitation. The widespread offline and online dissent ...

How did a mega-project in Lamu turn into a David vs Goliath case in court? It all started in 2012, when 28 farmers entered into an agreement with a Belgian energy company to erect wind turbines on ...

The re-election of Donald Trump and his return to the White House on January 20, 2025, has spurred debates regarding the consequences this new chapter in the leadership of the United States could have ...

When Elon Musk marked Donald Trump’s inauguration with what seemed very much like a Nazi salute and was defended by a lobby that claimed to fight anti-Jewish racism, he and his defenders confirmed the ...

The Family Guidance Association of Ethiopia Northern Area Office (FGAE NAO) is on the verge of closure, leaving thousands in Tigray without vital sexual and reproductive health services. The head of ...

The past month has witnessed an extraordinary assault on press freedom and the democratic right of journalists to hold the most powerful to account. Those attacks were not waged by rogue State House ...

Merika felt freedom and joy while she watched Chinese karate movies. Her soul vanished into the world of the monks training at their bronze gilded temples, the bonsai gardens, the sweeping rice fields ...

In 2019, Prof. Bethwell A. Ogot welcomed me at his home. He had just turned 90. We spoke about his role as editor of the encyclopedic UNESCO project that produced the invaluable volumes of the General ...

Maxwell Amunga delves into the Mathare Valley community north of Nairobi to take stock of the players, the pains, and the aftermath of a complex problem, laden with costly and desperate solutions that ...

Some lives are so full, so luminous, that even in passing, their glow remains, illuminating the paths of those they touched. Professor Bethwell A. Ogot was such a life—a giant in African ...