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...
Africa Uncensored‘s Joy Kirigia breaks down the Managed Equipment Services (MES) programme in Kenya by following Esther, a cancer patient, to expose the rot in the...
Africa Uncensored’s Joy Kirigia breaks down the Managed Equipment Services (MES) programme in Kenya by following Esther, a cancer patient, to expose the rot in the...
By Thomas Bwire “Don’t Kill me daddy Don’t Kill me, Don’t Kill me daddy was the screaming sound of the boy as I beat him with a belt without mercy, adding in some kicks...