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  • The social justice movement in Kenya includes about 70 centres across the country, including in Mathare, Nairobi. Credit: Ninara.
    Editor's PicksKenyaPolitics

    “A struggle in a struggle”: Patriarchy in Kenya’s social justice movement

    By Lena Anyuolo
    November 9, 2022
    Sexism is depleting activist movements, silencing women’s voices, and leading to burnout. Yet it is hardly spoken about. When Irene Asuwa first found out ...
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  • Recipients of Kenya's Hunger Safety Net Programme (HSNP) celebrate the social assistance programme. Credit: Joy Odero/DFID.
    EconomyKenyaTop story

    Kenya: What future for social assistance under Ruto?

    By Rachel Strohm
    September 13, 2022
    The new president’s manifesto shows awareness of the need for more social assistance but is light on specific commitments. The rising cost of living ...
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  • Reproductive and sexual health. At a market in Mombasa, Kenya. Credit: Ninara
    KenyaSocietyTop story

    Kenya: The new government’s chance to secure reproductive rights

    By Stephanie Musho
    September 7, 2022
    Kenya’s sexual health rights are beholden to US decisionmakers. New legislators must take back control. For too long, sexual and reproductive rights in Kenya ...
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  • Deputy President William Ruto on the campaign trail. Credit: William Samoei Ruto.
    KenyaPoliticsTop story

    Three reasons ethnicity will count for less in Kenya’s upcoming vote

    By Nic Cheeseman
    July 26, 2022
    Elections have always been about much more than ethnicity, but this will be particularly so this 9 August. Elections in Kenya have a reputation ...
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  • Former prime minister Raila Odinga (left) will face Deputy President William Ruto (right) at the ballot box in just over a month in Kenya.
    KenyaPoliticsTop story

    The choice facing Kenya and how we got here

    By Dave Anyona Kanundu
    July 6, 2022
    After many cycles of betrayed hopes, Kenya votes again in August. Neither frontrunner promises a leftward break, but their visions differ vastly. The upcoming ...
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  • one day i will learn to speak my mother tongue
    CultureEditor's PicksKenyaSociety

    One day I will learn to speak my mother tongue

    By Nyawira Githae
    June 8, 2022
    I know some people think local languages are second class and that speaking English indicates a superior IQ, but I’m not one of them. ...
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  • A fish market on Lake Victoria in Mukuno District, central Uganda. Credit: RTI International/Katie G. Nelson.
    ClimateKenyaTanzaniaUganda

    Lake Victoria locals blame companies for mysterious mass fish die-offs

    By Nangayi Guyson
    May 11, 2022
    Governments blame a range of factors for tonnes of dead fish washing up. Local fisherman and environment officers blame polluting industries. Richard Wandukwa, a ...
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  • EconomyKenyaSouth Africa

    Could two troubled airlines’ pan-African partnership work?

    By Eric Tchouamou Njoya
    January 20, 2022
    The potential risks and rewards of the South African Airways and Kenya Airways’ joint vision. There are very few profitable African airlines. Those operating ...
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  • A Kenyan secondary boarding school soon after it was burnt down. Credit: Elizabeth Cooper.
    KenyaSociety

    Kenyan students keep setting their schools on fire. Where’s the alarm?

    By Elizabeth Cooper
    December 8, 2021
    Students setting dozens if not hundreds of schools on fire each year is no longer surprising. What’s shocking is the government’s apathy. When the ...
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  • Editor's PicksKenyaSociety

    Marking Mawlid, the Muslim festival full of diversity, dhows and donkeys

    By Jaclynn Ashly
    November 17, 2021
    For the past 132 years, thousands have gathered in Lamu annually for Quran-reciting competitions, dance, music, and free healthcare. Earlier this month, thousands of ...
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