The attack in Nairobi isn't necessarily a proxy war against Western interests, writes scholar...More.

The upcoming US election is an excellent case for putting  'Re-Open Nominations' on the ballot in any modern democracy.  ..More

Is the global fight against Ebola impeded by traditional beliefs and mysticism in West Africa?  ...More

Many of the architects of African independence never got a chance to see the fruits of their labour ... More

Although there is a pseudo-consensus on what the law 'is',it is in fact simply a consensus among elites ...More

Spreading panic will not help efforts to curb the Ebola outbreak in Africa...More

ID cards remind refugees and locals alike that they will never be Kenyan enough... More

Appeals for birth control use in poorer nations is a question for the women, not the Catholic Church... More

What on the surface looks like sectarian violence in CAR is a much more complex and far reaching conflict...More

Throughout history, and today, sport has brought bitter national rivals together while providing hope in tough times...More

International media continues to underestimate the extent to which technology has been adopted
by the Kenyan society...More

Throughout history, and today, sport has brought bitter national rivals together while providing hope in tough times...More

The handling of a judge accused of pointing a gun at a security guard will reflect on the state judicial reforms...More

All 28 people indicted by the International Criminal Court so far are from Africa...More

The challenge for journalists covering Africa is telling African stories in their full human dimension. by Solomon Dersso ...More

Working women should not feel ashamed if they are unable to be the do-it-all mothers idealised by some feminists...More

The mutilated body of Chris Msando, acting director for Information and Communications Technology at the commission overseeing the highly anticipated August election, was found in a forest near the capital less than ten days ahead of the vote ... More

Raila Odinga, leader of the National Super Alliance and Kenya's opposition is petitioning the Supreme Court for a review of the results of the 2017 election, easing the political pressure that has kept the country in suspended animation for the last week... More

Democracy is a marathon, and Kenya just delivered one of the most decisive victories for African democracy in recent history. Marathons are, after all, our thing... More

The fictional country of Wakanda is, at least according to the comic book history, located somewhere in real life Turkana, the largest and also poorest of Kenya's 47 counties.

Diplomats from Ethiopia and Eritrea are calling it a "joint declaration of peace and friendship" but that innocuous name is masking what may be one of the most important political changes in East Africa in the past 20 years... MORE

If you were only watching the official news coverage of the inauguration of Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto for their second term, you would be forgiven for thinking that the political crisis that has seized Kenya since August 11 was over...

Diplomats from Ethiopia and Eritrea are calling it a "joint declaration of peace and friendship" but that innocuous name is masking what may be one of the most important political changes in East Africa in the past 20 years. MORE

There are more trees in Mogadishu than you might expect, at least in August. From above, the city is knots of green punctured by blue, red and beige roofs rolling into a strip of bright white sand before falling into the sea. MORE

Diplomats from Ethiopia and Eritrea are calling it a "joint declaration of peace and friendship" but that innocuous name is masking what may be one of the most important political changes in East Africa in the past 20 years. MORE

Last week, Germany's Africa Commissioner Gunter Nooke said that European countries should be allowed to lease land and to build and run cities in Africa as a means of stemming what he views as the unchecked expansion of migration from Africa to Europe. MORE