“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

“The Church must not move so close to the state, because you can get burned. The state is like fire. But the Church must also not stay very far from it, because you might feel a lot of cold.” That ...

What does faith have to do with identity? This is what I asked when I was invited to give a keynote lecture on 18 September 2025 at a workshop held at the Centre for Interfaith Studies in Africa at ...

The paradox of press freedom in Rwanda is that despite the advent of alternative media, younger journalists are more controlled than their older counterparts. “Today’s generation? Yeah, they’re ...

I was walking past the University of Stirling’s Airthrey Loch when I saw a young Scottish man fishing at its edge. As a son of the lake, who grew up next to Nam Lolwe, renamed Lake Victoria by the ...

On the afternoon of 17 June 2025, I witnessed a large group of young men riding into central Nairobi on motorbikes carrying whips and clubs. They had come to break up a demonstration over the death of ...

The river had swallowed him whole before anyone realised the danger. It was early October last year, in Kakamega. The Kenya Meteorological Services Authority (KMSA) had already issued a warning that ...

Twenty years ago today, John Garang de Mabior boarded a helicopter in western Uganda and never arrived at his destination. Garang had spent the day at Rwakitura; not in Kampala, not in a ministry, but ...

Pastoralists offer significant potential for a sustainable future in Africa’s dryland frontiers. However, this potential is increasingly threatened by both human and natural challenges. Pastoral ...