The early twenty-first century is a time of monsters in the Global South. What do these monsters look like? Let me begin with those at work closest to home, namely in post-apartheid South Africa, ...

There is a silent population inside Kenya’s correctional facilities that rarely enters public debate, penal policy discourse, or the national imagination. They appear in no crime statistics, are ...

In November 2020, a war erupted in the Ethiopian region of Tigray. Six hundred thousand to a million civilian lives are estimated to have been lost. Amongst the many war crimes and crimes against ...

As I sat there listening to a friend who owns a small business, I wondered whether there are different tax regimes in Kenya depending on what form of commercial activity one undertakes. Despite ...

Due to the rapid advancements in AI technology, the Media Council of Kenya (MCK) formed a technical taskforce in October 2023 to develop the Media Handbook for Reporting on Artificial Intelligence in ...

When a Kenyan candidate speaks at a Washington organization like the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) or the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the public event is just the ...

The truth of the matter is that in Kenya today, ethnic and political division is rife in churches. Can the church regain its prophetic voice? The Elephant in conversation with Rev. Kimutai Chesosi ...

Something important is happening across the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa. Wars that appear local are drawing in actors from increasingly far away. Ports built for commerce acquire military uses.

In the weeks leading up to the storming of the Kenyan parliament in June 2024, I noticed a unique element in the type of people who attended the protests; they polled much younger, more enthusiastic, ...

At the end of 2010, I took a trip to Ethiopia to visit my family. At the time, my parents worked in Bole, the commercial centre of Addis Ababa. Being only 16, my movements were more or less regulated ...

Last October, two weeks before Baba died, I was returning to Nairobi after a two-year hiatus. The last time I was home was during the first-year memorial of my sister, Nyangi, who was now the ...

The conversation around Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the creative industries is often filled with hype and speculation. Is it a tool for liberation or a threat to livelihoods? Chief Nyamweya, ...