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Loita forest is home to endangered bird species such as the grey-crested helmet-shrike. Nik Borrow/Flickr

24 Jul 2022 4 minute read

Conservation from behind the lens

Shadrack Omuka meets the Maasai women using photography as a way to preserve Kenya's Loita forest.

15 Mar 2022 4 minute read

‘We will oppose it until the end of our lives’

Shadrack Omuka reports from Kenya’s Arabuko Sokoke forest on the threat posed to East Africa’s largest coastal...

A green bench next to a path in a park of trees and grass

16 Dec 2021 3 minute read

From fear to romance in Nairobi’s parks

Nanjala Nyabola on how Nairobi’s young lovers have claimed the city’s public spaces.

A man wearing a blue t-shirt sits next to a window

7 Oct 2021 4 minute read

Let the water flow

Could solar-powered desalination help boost drinking water supplies in Kenya and beyond? Anthony Langat...

19 Aug 2021 3 minute read

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Suspending pandemic reality

Exasperated at politicians, Nanjala Nyabola reflects on the disastrous consequences of poor leadership in a...

20 Jun 2021 3 minute read

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Smothered by roads

Nanjala Nyabola mourns the loss of Nairobi's canopy, and questions the expansion of cities.

Health workers demonstrate handwashing techniques to Mukuru community members. Photo: Victoria Nthenge

14 Oct 2020 3 minute read

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View from Africa

Abandoned by the state, self-organized health workers in Kenya are absorbing the brunt of the pandemic, writes ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the South African press on developments in the nation's risk-adjusted strategy to manage the spread of Coronavirus COVID-19 [Photo: GCIS/Flickr]

18 Aug 2020 2 minute read

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View from africa

Nanjala Nyabola on the mask mandate and personal freedom.

3 Jul 2019 2 minute read

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Check your passport privilege

Nanjala Nyabola explains the weighty, 'anti-citizen' African bureaucracies that have their origins in the colonial period....

11 Apr 2019 2 minute read

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Kenya’s refugee reporters

Sally Hayden reports on a fully independent, refugee-run news outlet in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya

Kenyan lawmaker Sarah Korere talks to supporters during an election campaign rally in the village of Dol Dol in Laikipia County, Kenya.

31 May 2018 5 minute read

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Can men help break Kenyan womens’ exclusion?

Can male volunteers help break the cycle of womens’ political exclusion in Kenya? Hannah O’Neill and...

31 Mar 2018 1 minute read

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Media switch off in Kenya

A controversial six-day media switch-off has put the country’s news organizations at loggerheads with the government writes...

The Turkana are a nomadic people, mainly based near Lake Turkana in north-west Kenya. Photo: Filiberto Strazzari, CC-BY-2.0

3 Apr 2018 4 minute read

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Two worlds collide

In East Africa, traditional lifestyles are bringing nomads into conflict with states, writes Maina...

Youth bulge: A public billboard in Uganda urges young people to have smaller families.

1 Jan 2018 3 minute read

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Africa needs to drop the ‘youth bulge’ discourse

Wangui Kimari makes the case that the youth discourse in Africa has patronizing,...

Kenyan elections: Kenyatta is sworn in as president after the 2013 elections.

27 Oct 2017 3 minute read

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After re-run, Kenyan opposition vows resistance

Wangui Kimari reports on the twists and turns of this year’s election season.

13 Apr 2017 4 minute read

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Drought leaves 2.4 million Kenyans desperately short of food

In most areas, pasture, water and food supplies are totally depleted, writes Nick Guttmann.

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