The US invasion of Venezuela and the ouster of President Nicolas Maduro Moros this weekend doesn’t come as a surprise, but is no less shocking. American military forces have been building in the ...

Chinedu Chukwudinma, Christopher J. Lee and Bettina Engels introduce special issue 186, Volume 52 of the journal, dedicated to honouring the centenary of the Martiniquais-Algerian revolutionary Frantz ...

Of all dead and living revolutionaries, perhaps none elicits as much fear in the Western ruling class today as Frantz Fanon. As a new generation of radical activists and scholars draws on Fanon to ...

We first heard of Alice at a press conference on 19 January 1987, given by Yoweri Museveni, the man then relatively new to the Ugandan presidency. We’d been summoned to State Lodge in Mbale, at the ...

Karura Forest, Nairobi’s iconic urban green haven, has recently become the focus of a management dispute between the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) and Friends of Karura Forest (FKF). The disagreement ...

The year 2025 did not mark the arrival of new global challenges so much as the consolidation of existing ones into a more demanding and less forgiving international environment. Across regions, ...

On Thursday, 4 December, President William Ruto signed a US$2.5 billion five-year US-Kenya health cooperation framework on behalf of the government of Kenya. The framework is the first to be signed of ...

An old map of Africa showed me how calmly power redraws the world. The Kenya–US health pact does it again — using soft language to mask a new extraction, this time of African health data in the global ...

In 1989, when he was the deputy speaker of parliament, Kalonzo Musyoka, the former vice president and now an opposition leader, was a man who would not brook criticism of the one-party state under ...

As we close out 2025, we reflect on a year marked by defining moments—significant wins, painful losses, and the passing of respected elders in the public sphere. In this conversation, our guest Zahid ...

Much has already been written about the influence of Raila Amolo Odinga on the Kenyan politics and psyche, but his stated will to be buried within 72 hours of his demise is of particular interest to ...