• Smith Ouma

Nairobi is already witnessing the sidelining of democratic institutions. Now a new city management agency is further excluding the public.

• Mathare Social Justice Centre

In the second video from our Capitalism In My City project, Dennis Esikuri talks to everyday Nairobians about the current employment opportunities in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic.

• Samantha Balaton-Chrimes

The vagueness around who is and isn’t a “tribe of Kenya” is a double-edged sword. The persistence of ethnic classification and counting can be pernicious.

• Andrew Harvey

The loss of African languages, their link with identity, and their role in forging decolonial futures.

• Lewis Mwaura

Why is Nairobi's government terrorizing hawkers and hustlers around the city? An anthropological perspective.

• Samar Al-Bulushi

African states are involved in the War on Terror more than we think. They're surrounded by an eco-system of the war industry.

• Mathare Social Justice Centre

In the first video from a series for the Capitalism In My City project, Brian Mathenge decodes what everyday capitalism looks like from the margins of Nairobi.

• Wandia Njoya

How is Kenya's "new middle class" contributing to a pervasive low-quality oppression that leaves Kenyans feeling hopeless?

• 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.