• Dauti Kahura

Many of Nairobi's apocalypse merchants and prophesy peddlers have disappeared in the past year. Reflections on how COVID-19 has re-shaped the city and residents' lives.

• Hanno Brankamp

Behind the anxieties about tackling forced displacement and terror, is the recognizable lexicon of racialized difference. This all infuses the practice of humanitarianism.

• Tracey Nichols

2020 has given us an archive of heart-breaking examples of the politically transformative power of care.

• Adriaan van Klinken

A key part of Maathai's work was how she creatively engaged with religious traditions, including Christianity and the Bible. Admittedly, her stance was somewhat complex.

• Rasna Warah

Cities will continue to exist and grow despite the coronavirus crisis because of the distinctly human need for social interaction, physical contact, and collaboration.

• Lucy Wambui

Drug use among young people in Nairobi's slums is on the rise. Youth also face arbitrary arrests by the police, resulting in jail time which turns them into hardcore criminals in a vicious cycle.

• Dan Aceda
• Juliet Atellah

Tracing the music, from 1978 to the 2000s, that defined the rule of former Kenyan president Daniel Torotich Arap Moi.

• Samuel Gathanga

I’ve lived a good part of my life in Mathare 4A, part of the larger Mathare slum in Nairobi. Decent housing remains a pipe dream for the majority of the city's residents.

• Rasna Warah

The 60s, 70s, and 80s are often described as the Golden Age of Indian cinema and Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu had a large number of cinemas devoted to showing films made in Bombay.

• Minoo Kyaa
• Maryanne Kasina

How is it that water flows freely and cheaply in Nairobi's wealthy neighborhoods, but thousands of people in informal settlements are denied access to it?

• Claire Nasike
• Mercy Chesang

How pesticides banned in the European Union continue to be sold in Kenya, and with devastating impact.

• Wangui Kimari

Re-visiting Nairobi's urban history offers a glimpse into the forces that shaped modern life.

• Nicholas Mwangi
• Irene Asuwa

Members of the Capitalism In My City project reflect on the commodification of education in Kenya.

• Ngala Chome

With Kenya in the grip of a global pandemic and grappling with an ailing economy, is constitutional reform really a priority?

• David Tonghou Ngong

At a time when Evangelical Christianity frequently goes against the interests of African people, is it time for us to re-make Christianity?

• Kwamchetsi Makokha

In a Kenya coping with COVID-19 restrictions, circumcision season presents an impossible choice between tradition and civil obedience.

• April Zhu

To those who did not know Emma Gama Pinto, she was just “the wife of Pio Gama Pinto,” the Kenyan anticolonial fighter, but to those who knew her, she was fearless in her own right.

• Keren Weitzberg

Borders and camps across Africa are using biometrics to track refugees. For those who are stateless, “fraud” can allow for the smuggling of truths into administrative lies.

• Dauti Kahura
• Akoko Akech

Kenya's Deputy President, William Ruto, wants to be president. He projects himself as a go-getter. But there is a more sinister story behind his hustler narrative.

• Miriam Jerotich Kilimo

New biographies reveal Wangari Maathai as a reflective scholar and critical thinker.