In 2019, 50.1 per cent of Kenyans were under the age of 19. That equates to half of a country the size of approximately 47.5 million people. Now, in 2025, these Gen Zers are entering adulthood and in ...

Nations that failed to secure their independence through sustained resistance and sacrifice typically remain under foreign control through increasingly sophisticated mechanisms. Paper independence ...

Growing up on a farm in South Africa’s Free State, the idea of transforming the world into something more sustainable, more equitable, consumed my thoughts. But when those ideas met the real world, ...

Firoze Manji is the founder and publisher of Daraja Press. He is Adjunct Professor at the Institute of African Studies and Contract Instructor, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He is the founder ...

The Gen Z protests created a critical political moment whose impact has unravelled many political assumptions. In the midst of it, the constitution stands to mediate between the governed and the ...

I was not expecting much when a Kenyan friend told me about a video interview he wanted me to watch featuring Pheroze Nowrojee, who had just passed away. My initial thought was that the request ...

Fifty years ago this April, Dr Johnstone Muthiora, who, barely six months earlier, had taken on one of the most powerful men in Kenya at the ballot box and won, died mysteriously. His death, coming as ...

For many Africans, migration has long been seen as the key to a better life. Countless youths from Kenya and across the continent leave their homelands in search of better opportunities, hoping for a ...

Puntland is showing that a military with limited resources and manpower can defeat global terrorists by relying on grassroots community mobilisation.

On the Gates Foundation website, Ghanaian programmer Darlington Akogo talks about his mission to reduce the number of deaths in the West African nation, where there’s one doctor per 10,000 patients.

During the South Sudan independence celebrations on 9 July 2011 at Freedom Square, next to the John Garang Mausoleum, the unity of purpose and hope for the future was electrifying. One could hardly ...