Unthinking refugee studies
What use are academic categories when they reinforce conservative concepts scholars seek to challenge?
What use are academic categories when they reinforce conservative concepts scholars seek to challenge?
When rain falls on a leopard, it does not wash off his spots. The same can’t be said of Kenya’s media and the opposition after Uhuru Kenyatta’s crackdown.
A conversation on books, borders, and belonging with Somali-American writer, Abdul Adan.
The Nobel Prize for Literature buzz around Ngugi’s wa Tiong'o's points to both his seminal contributions to African literature but also his work to kept the memory of Kenya’s divisive past alive.
What characterizes daily life in Kenya: a seemingly simultaneous flagrant zest for life and hesitant fascination with death.
Daniel arap Moi perfected rigging and state violence as politics. Uhuru Kenyatta campaigned with them and will extend and complete them in his second term.
How easily white landowners in Kenya can utilize the trope of "the maddened land invader" to conjure global support for an unequal land system.
Peace narratives cover up the need to address historical injustice and end a culture of impunity dating back to the days of Kenya’s first President Jomo Kenyatta and continuing via his son, President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Whoever wins the election, must protect refugees agains forced repatriation by the state or spontaneous attacks from partisan electoral violence.
The vivid cinematography of "Waithira," a film about Kenya, aside, the author would have preferred more knots to be tied and a little less untethering.
Politics in many parts of Africa is often understood through a metaphor of eating – a
Ordinary Kenyans are tired of the drama of party politics, and are hungry, job insecure and live under the threat of police bullets.
Can African states offer new approaches to refugee asylum?
How phones change the terrain on which Kenyans can make claims for services, redistribution, and recognition.
The many extra-judicial executions that happen in the poor, and predominantly, eastern urban settlements of Kenya's capital, Nairobi.
Those, mostly Somalis, born in Dadaab, since its creation in 1991, could be sent to a country they have never known.
Throughout Barack Obama’s presidency, his personal links to Kenya have been weaponized by the U.S.'s Right’s as a slur. But there's more to his relationship with his father's country.
In late August and early September, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg visited Nigeria’s Silicon Lagoon and Kenya’s
Is diasporan a word? It is now. You cannot understand what it is to be Nigerian, or Kenyan or South African now, without factoring in the diaspora.
The government is using the refugee population as red meat in local politics and a bargaining chip for more international aid.