H. Nanjala Nyabola

In 1827, Georges Cuiver, an eminent anatomist in his day, published the book ‘Animal Kingdom’ in which he claimed to have developed a ‘scientific’ method of studying the relationship between different races.

People don’t believe their governments anymore. Not that governments anywhere have a history of doing much to earn the public’s trust.

Osama bin Laden is dead.

‘An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.’

It is said that when Sir Isaac Newton watched an apple fall while ‘pensively meandering’ through a garden he used this observation as the basis of his theory of gravity.

It’s difficult to comment on the situations in Libya and Côte d'Ivoire without sounding like you are in favour of either side.

From an insider’s perspective, the greatest source of concern over the outcome of the 2012 elections in Kenya isn’t the potential of political bigwigs to fund campaigns of hatred.

In 2008, when the fever of Kenya’s post-election violence was running at its highest, an interesting story made its way across the Kenyan blogosphere.

It’s not very often that a single word becomes a definition of and explanation for a specific approach to politics, but over the last 40 years ‘stability’ has become just that for many nations – as an all-encompassing political agenda, a call to inaction in rejecting change and an excuse to toler

Is Muammar Gaddafi crazy? Western media outlets have spent the better part of the last two decades implying that he is.