Monica Atieno is a Kenyan researcher and journalist interested in how technology, policy and power shape people’s everyday lives. Her work focuses on digital rights, labour and governance, with a ...

Joshua W.J. Brown is a Toronto-based Canadian writer, filmmaker, and independent researcher working across history, political architecture, public systems, and cultural criticism.

The New Native should not become the old Native with a better genealogy. That is the danger I keep hearing underneath the question The Elephant has been asking this year. The “New Native” in this ...

Thirty-three-year-old Emmanuel is a freelance hairdresser in Nairobi. He is a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo and has lived in Kenya for six years. The young man is chic, dressed in ...

I grew up on a staple of detective novels. Agatha Christie, Ian Fleming, P.D. James, Colin Dexter… there was always the smart forensics team that ultimately cracked the case. The dried blood stain ...

History in the Horn of Africa is rarely allowed to remain history. An ancient civilization becomes evidence of modern sovereignty. A medieval dynasty becomes proof of national continuity. Territory ...

The political violence that characterized Linda Mwananchi’s forceful entry into Homa Bay and earned the county online mimetic mockery and nicknames such as Afgoonistan or Yemen didn’t begin in either ...

“So CBC is designed for short-term training of workers. In Europe, it is used among refugee and immigrant communities who need to be integrated into the community as fast as possible with skills they ...

Tafahri Munjatta is a Kenyan Afrofuturist and decolonial writer based in Nairobi. His work explores the intersections of culture, politics, history, and spirituality, tracing the ways memory, power, ...

In the year 1926, when the sun still climbed slow and steady over the red roofs of Ibadan, and the roads remained loyal to dust and earth, a man stepped off a creaking lorry with a chest of tea and a ...

The beach of São Francisco was half-empty when we arrived. The morning light had a metallic edge, slicing through the mist that hung low over the Atlantic. The beach smelled faintly of salt, diesel, ...

Kenya is in political angst. Public confidence is at an all-time low. Political violence is spreading. Youth frustration is growing. Those entrusted with leadership are detached from the daily ...