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Kenya

  • Controlling Africa's media.
    KenyaPoliticsSouth Africa

    How to undermine Africa’s independent media

    By George Ogola
    April 19, 2017
    The media may be legally protected, but there are still subtle ways for governments to exercise control. National governments remain the single largest source ...
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  • KenyaPolitics

    Why Kenya has been unable to end the two-month long doctors’ strike

    By Moses Masika
    February 9, 2017
    It’s not just about pay. On 5 December 2016, doctors in public health facilities in Kenya went on strike, setting off one of the ...
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  • EconomyKenyaPolitics

    Land politics come before Kenya’s courts again

    By Ambreena Manji & Jill Ghai
    January 23, 2017
    Since the new 2012 land laws were passed, Kenya’s Lands Ministry and National Land Commission have tussled for power. A High Court decision regarding land ...
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  • KenyaPolitics

    #LipaKamaTender: How Kenya’s striking medical workers took control of the narrative

    By George Gathigi
    December 23, 2016
    In most labour disputes, the government uses state machinery and the media to dominate the narrative. But through social media, medical workers have found ...
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  • KenyaPolitics

    Decolonise da police: How brutality was written into the DNA of Kenya’s police service

    By Nanjala Nyabola
    July 19, 2016
    The problem isn’t rogue elements. It’s that the Administration Police division was created under colonialism with the specific purpose of beating Africans into submission. “Severe blunt ...
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  • KenyaPolitics

    5 things you should know about the Kenya protests

    By Ken Opalo
    June 9, 2016
    Six months ago, a landslide re-election victory for President Uhuru Kenyatta in 2017 seemed likely. Not any more. Over the last couple of weeks, ...
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  • KenyaPoliticsSomalia

    Kenya camp closures no surprise to refugees: “We’ve been crying out but no one heard”

    By Moulid Hujale
    May 15, 2016
    If Dadaab were a town, it would be Kenya’s third biggest by population. Kenya’s announcement earlier this month that it planned to shut down ...
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  • KenyaPolitics

    Kenya: It really is about dicks

    By Nanjala Nyabola
    April 18, 2016
    My claim is not that women’s rights matter more than any other political issue. My claim is that Kenyan politics and analysis is dominated ...
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  • KenyaPolitics

    Not just big dicks: Kenya’s real cross-cutting theme is class

    By Ngala Chome
    April 13, 2016
    Kenya’s political system has disenfranchised millions of women, but it has also disenfranchised the majority of the population, saving its greatest levels of violence ...
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  • KenyaPolitics

    #147notjustanumber: Reclaiming the hearts of Kenya’s youth a year on from Garissa

    By Martine Zeuthen
    April 1, 2016
    To prevent another attack like Garissa, responses need to be grounded where the point of impact is greatest: in the heart and spirit of ...
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