• William Shoki

This week on AIAC Talk: Pio Gama Pinto was Kenya’s first post-independence martyr. Why does he matter today?

• Patrick Gathara

Charles Njonjo's legacy is as member of a powerful group of Kikuyu chauvinists who surrounded Jomo Kenyatta and corrupted the state.

• Rose Miyonga

The grievances of this generation in Kenya are disturbingly similar to those of the generation of the 1940s who took up arms in the Mau Mau movement. For both, it is about land and freedom.

• Boima Tucker

Africa Is a Country Radio is back with a new season. Each show will be inspired by the work of a different African author. First up, we explore the Ethiopian Tizita with Mukoma Wa Ngugi.

• Toni Kamau

How the film, 'I am Samuel' about a gay Kenyan couple was banned by the Kenya Film Classification Board.

• Naipanoi Lepapa

On the back of a failed COP26 climate conference: how e-waste dumping by European countries in Africa contribute significantly to climate change.

• Mathare Social Justice Centre

In the last video for our Nairobi edition of Capitalism in My City, we meet the Organic Intellectuals Network.

• Mordecai Ogada

How the International Union for Conservation of Nature Congress continues be a farce, and perpetuates a fake conservation in Africa: basically the interests are just commerce.

• Abdullahi Abdille Shahow

Somali refugees in Kenya are held hostage by political disagreements between their governments. Under international law, Kenya has a duty to protect them.

• Gacheke Gachihi

In the third video for our Nairobi edition of Capitalism in My City, Gacheke Gachihi visits a site of environmental injustice.

• Purity Mukami
• Simon Bowers

The Pandora Papers connects Kenya's ruling family to secret accounts in offshore companies and tax havens. But, state looting started with Jomo Kenyatta.

• Wandia Njoya

Colonial and post-colonial governments in Kenya have worked to separate education from access to culture and information. It is an outdated model.

• Wangui Kimari

The Mathare Social Justice Centre mounts a photography exhibition on police brutality and extrajudicial killings in Kenya’s capital.

• Peter Lockhood

Kenya’s elites, including the church, use ponzi schemes for predatory accumulation and Kenyans will continue to see their dreams deferred if the law doesn't change.

• Boima Tucker

Africa Is a Country Radio continues its season focused on African club culture. Our next stop is Nairobi with Kenyan journalist and radio programmer Bill Odidi. Listen on Worldwide FM.

• Nicholas Githuku
• Robert M. Maxon

Three years on, the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), initiated by Kenya's President, Uhuru Kenyatta, with former opposition leader, Raila Odinga, feels like an elite pact with no popular support.

• Sloan Mahone

How racialized intellectual outputs placed in just the right circumstances can do the most damage.

• Smith Ouma

Nairobi is already witnessing the sidelining of democratic institutions. Now a new city management agency is further excluding the public.

• Mathare Social Justice Centre

In the second video from our Capitalism In My City project, Dennis Esikuri talks to everyday Nairobians about the current employment opportunities in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic.

• Samantha Balaton-Chrimes

The vagueness around who is and isn’t a “tribe of Kenya” is a double-edged sword. The persistence of ethnic classification and counting can be pernicious.