• Norbert Odero

For immigrants—especially African and black immigrants to Western countries—the question of home is complex.

• Lena Grace Anyuolo

Philanthropy and celebrities are not enough to remedy the inequalities that persist in Kenya.

• Milford Bateman
• Maren Duvendack
• Nicholas Loubere

Mobile-phone-based, person-to-person payment and money transfer systems are innovative—but are they really good for poverty reduction and development?

• David Tonghou Ngong

While many African Christians can only imagine a white Jesus, others have actively promoted a vision of a brown or black Jesus, both in art and in ideology.

• Wangui Kimari

Poor Nairobi residents pay close to four times more for water that is much less clean, adequate or consistent.

• Lauren Brown

Boris Johnson is in the running for UK Prime Ministers. The UK Conservative Party is particularly fond of Britian's colonial past, but Johnson usually outdoes himself in this regard.

• Kamau Muiga

Turn any homophobic corner in Africa and you're guaranteed to run into a delirious celebration of "African culture," but there's nothing African about homophobia.

• Celia Breuer

The future of Kenya's matatus (commuter buses) and their inherent place in the capital Nairobi's culture and society, is all but absent in the government's neoliberal vision for urban planning.

• Serubiri Moses

Binyavanga's fashion sensibility as well as his choices in his memoir, and his essays, will have a lasting impact after he is gone.

• Mukoma wa Ngugi

Binyavanga Wainaina was a writer who not only produced seminal work, but also contributed to and shaped the African literary tradition into what it is today.

• Sisonke Msimang

Ellen DeGeneres wanted an African story. Achieng Agutu obliged. Don’t hate the player, though, hate the game.

• Hannah Borenstein

The international body governing track and field announced that the longest distance race to be held will be the 3000 meters. We know who will benefit least from this change.

• Rishi Nath

Ed Pavlic's new novel follows two lovers trading Chicago for Mombasa.

• Lindsey Green-Simms

Director Wanuri Kahiu went to look for hopeful African love stories and made a lesbian love story, amid court sanctioned homophobia.

• Wangui Kimari

Is emigrating to Africa an option for Black Brazilians in the time of Jair Bolsonaro's toxic, racist, rightwing regime?

• Norbert Odero

The power of having a god who resembles us.

• James Kilgore

Kenya's prisons are in serious need of reform. Opening the door to private interests is not the solution.

• Wangui Kimari

Invisible City [Kakuma], a film about Kenya's largest refugee camps, seems keen on making a point but is anchored on unsteady ground (with some shitty translation).

• Andreana Prichard

The disfunction with American voluntourism and Christian outreach in Africa, that in some cases have led to abuse.

• David Edwards

The planned global Education Outcomes Fund—the UN seems onboard—would create markets for “non-state” providers while guaranteeing profits for private investors that purchase “impact bonds.”