Growing up on a farm in South Africa’s Free State, the idea of transforming the world into something more sustainable, more equitable, consumed my thoughts. But when those ideas met the real world, ...

Fifty years ago this April, Dr Johnstone Muthiora, who, barely six months earlier, had taken on one of the most powerful men in Kenya at the ballot box and won, died mysteriously. His death, coming as ...

Decarbonization is a major response to climate change mitigation in the 21st century. However, our research in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) shows that the pursuit of decarbonization is ...

On the Gates Foundation website, Ghanaian programmer Darlington Akogo talks about his mission to reduce the number of deaths in the West African nation, where there’s one doctor per 10,000 patients.

In April of 2023, two factions of the Sudanese armed forces, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), began attacking each other in the capital city of Khartoum ...

The streets of Nairobi’s Central Business District are heavy with the smell of tear gas. It is July 11, 2024, and the youth are protesting against corruption and poor governance, the tail end of the ...

Last month, Kenya’s president William Ruto offered to host the second biennial African Climate Summit later this year, should no other African country be willing to take on the task. Ruto made this ...

By now, many Kenyans, especially Nairobians, have returned from their annual pilgrimage to Mombasa. The coastal city renowned for its rich history and vibrant Swahili culture is more than just a ...

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 ...

Five months since the leaderless, anti-tax, pro-good-governance “Gen Z” protests roiled Kenya in June and July 2024, their vanguardism inspiring young people in other African countries to stage their ...

As the dust seemingly settles from the demographic whirlwind of the Kenyan tax revolt, the scramble to understand the new context as a pathway to prosperity following a recognition of the shifting ...

Watching the anti-finance bill-turned-anti-government protests unfold in Kenya, I could not help but wonder what I could offer from my own experiences of analysing and contributing, however modestly, ...