Kenya is witnessing a wave of change. Long accustomed to preserving the status quo, many have found themselves face-to-face with a new generation of youth who are disenfranchised, unemployed, or ...

Four years into his stint as a senior technician at the now-defunct Kenya Posts & Telecommunications, in 1971, a young Francis Atwoli took on the role of branch secretary for the parastatal’s ...

In this third part of the Project Profile investigation, Naipanoi Lepapa looks into the development, deployment and use of biometric recognition technology in the humanitarian aid sector in Kenya.

Femicide is the result of politics and policies, and so it is about time that you entered the chat, Mr President. But you need to come correct. Every woman and girl that is murdered because she is ...

From Kenya to Brazil, South Africa to the US, there seems to exist a multiplicity of issues driving a wedge across race, gender, and national identities. What are the unresolved questions and ...

Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is one of the most contentious and polarizing issues of our times, in Africa and globally. (Some just call it FGM, but the word ‘mutilation’ is itself ...

Law faculties function as formative institutions where future legal professionals are trained. Today’s law students are tomorrow’s lawyers, judges, prosecutors, academics, and world leaders. Besides ...

The English Premier League and British football hardly featured notable African players before Arsène Wenger arrived as manager of Arsenal F.C. in 1996. The few high-profile exceptions were Tony ...

In partnership with the Pulitzer Center Artificial Intelligence (AI) fellowship, The Elephant tells the story of double-registered persons as part of Project Profile, over two years of investigations ...

So what does it mean to be young, aspirational, driven, yet caught up in a country with so much potential yet so few results? Who benefits from the structural deficiency built into public life, and ...

On the morning of 21 October 1956, Dedan Kimathi was walking near a trench on the edge of the Nyandarua Forest in Nyeri, exhausted and alone, when a Home Guard named Ndirangu Mau shot him in the leg.

Documents Survival International – Blood Carbon: How a Carbon Offset Scheme Makes Millions From Indigenous Land in Northern Kenya ...