By Cynthia Gichiri The afternoon sun is overhead at Lelen Village, Emining Ward in Baringo County, Kenya. For a typical dry season, it has already scorched everything...
THAO picks up the thread of Kenya’s history with money with a story from the early 1990s. Its a difficult time for money, but it’s even tougher for the...
By Ruth Keah & Cynthia Gichiri When Miriam Katana lost her mother to breast cancer in 2016, she and her elder sister were advised by a doctor to go for regular...
THAO is a metaphorical story about A ONE THOUSAND SHILLINGS NOTE’s journey of finding its purpose and reason for its existence through the human world (Kenya). Through...
Africa
Timber Logging and Crime: How Rosewood is Stolen in Cameroon, Laundered in Nigeria and Exported to China
By Christian Locka As rosewood is getting rarer in Nigerian forests, traffickers wanting to continue to satisfy demands by the Chinese, have been harvesting this rare...
Elections 2022, Kenya
The Lost Generation: Are the youth apathetic or just “appropriately disillusioned”?
By Linda Ngari “I am politically active. Just not voting.” The paradox in Karwitha Kirimi’s stance is as astounding as the voter registration tally that recorded only a...
By Shitemi Khamadi In 2007, the then Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) chair Samuel Kivuitu would stun the country with these words, “I am not happy to see how the...
This story investigates the route of deadly disputes in Narok and how negative ethnicity and political lines play a crucial role in these conflicts.
By John Dell’Osso and Douglas Gillison If you live near buried treasure—huge deposits of oil and gas, eye-popping reserves of gold, copper, bauxite, cobalt and other...
By Bassam Khawaja and Rebecca Riddell Kenya’s government has made a conscious choice to expand the role of for-profit private operators in healthcare, while starving the...