By Al Kags I. A Nation in the Mirror On the night of October 29th, as a curfew descended on Dar es Salaam and Mwanza, a familiar pattern unfolded: frightened elites invoked “security,” the internet slowed to a crawl, and …
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Africa imports what it can produce. Yet there’s an opportunity for Africa to do a revolution in trade. Ghana gets milk from the Netherlands. Kenya brings in apples, grapes, aloe vera, and neem—plants that flourish in its own soil. Mauritius …
Yesterday, Kenya bore witness to an egregious display of state overreach as police responded violently to peaceful #EndFemicide protests. What should have been an earnest outcry against gender-based violence turned into a stark reminder of another pervasive menace: the shrinking …
As all politics is local, so too is sustainable development. National policy frameworks often miss the mark, leaving people behind in a world that thrives on diversity. I have worked on subnational development projects for the past 12 years, and …
David Sasaki’s Time Capsule piece, When Languages Die, Part 2, triggered something deep within me. His reflections on the quiet extinction of languages across the globe took me back to my own childhood in Kenya, where speaking your mother tongue …