This is one piece I wish I did not have to write.  But our penchant for feferity and spectacle at the highest reaches of our public life leaves me no choice.  As long as this obtains and I have breath in me, I hope I do not fail to call us to account when this penchant gets the

Truscello, M., And Nangwaya, A (eds). Why don't the poor rise up? Organizing the twenty-first century resistance. Chico: AK Press, 2017. 277pp. ISBN 978184935278-9 paper.

The Kenyan elite and its variants in the political, corporate (licit and illicit), civil society, media, intelligentsia and the diaspora, need to grow up and cease their superficial dramas and look past their noses to see that their theatrics have far-wider reaching consequences that affect milli

The historic ruling by Kenya’s Supreme Court on September 1, annulling the results of the 2017 August 8 elections, came as a major surprise to many Kenyans and observers across Africa and the globe.

This peculiar pattern began to take shape as soon as Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi became president in 2014.

As expected, the Supreme Court’s annulment of Kenya’s 8 August 2017 presidential election over “irregularities and illegalities” has provoked mixed reactions.

If President Kagame ever sought the help of a psychotherapist he would present with a history of sleeplessness, little appetite for food, a tendency to turn violent, an inclination to hide most of the truth about his victims, an exaggerated estimate about his accomplishments and an aggressive app

For as long as anyone can remember, it has been the western world dictating the norms of democracy to Africa and the rest of the world. No matter the efforts by these countries, the West’s imposing standards of democracy were nearly impossible to achieve.

A controversial gathering scheduled to be held in the West African state of Togo has been called off amid a burgeoning movement aimed at the removal of a French-backed political dynasty.

In The Trial of Dedan Kimathi, Ngugi wa Thiong'o challenges the colonial presentation of Kimathi as a depraved, mad, terrorist. Ngugi presents an alternative nationalist narrative of Kimathi as a revolutionary, admired by peasants and workers of Kenya.