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# The Elephant

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- [Uganda Elections: The More Things Change, the More they Remain the Same](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2026/01/15/uganda-elections-the-more-things-change-the-more-they-remain-the-same/) - A Museveni win is the most plausible outcome, but unsettled grievances among the youth may prove to be a black swan.
- [Uganda: Protecting the Gains from the Barbarians at the Gate](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2026/01/15/uganda-protecting-the-gains-from-the-barbarians-at-the-gate/) - When Yoweri Kaguta Museveni first ran for president in 1996, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu was an unknown adolescent secondary school student in Kamwokya, near the Ugandan capital, Kampala. This week the two men meet again in their second successive electoral contest, one that shows that, for all the social and economic transformation in the country over the past three decades, Uganda's politics remains rooted in the 1990s.
- [Uganda Election 2026: A Letter from the Edge of Hope](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2026/01/14/uganda-election-2026-a-letter-from-the-edge-of-hope/) - The main opposition candidate in the polls, Robert Kyagulanyi has come to embody the hopes of an anxious and dispossessed Ugandan youth.
- [A Eunuch, a Medicine Man, and a Songbird: The Erosion of Museveni’s Charm](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2026/01/13/a-eunuch-a-medicine-man-and-a-songbird-the-erosion-of-musevenis-charm/) - Paul Ssemogerere offered Museveni a safe election but Kizza Besigye cured Uganda of cowardice. With the rise of Bobi Wine, a commoner Muganda has risen to national prominence, transcending tribal politics and striking fear into the heart of the regime.
- [Luo Funerals Made Simple: A Tribute to Raila Amolo Odinga](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/12/19/luo-funerals-made-simple-a-tribute-to-raila-amolo-odinga/) - Raila’s wish to be buried within three days of his death was consistent with his statements while he was alive that Luo funerals should regain their simplicity and cease to be an economic burden on the community.
- [Fanon’s Shadow Over Gaza: Empire’s Nervous Breakdown](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2026/01/09/fanons-shadow-over-gaza-empires-nervous-breakdown/) - This radical supplement to the editorial of ROAPE’s Fanon special issue raises awareness of how Fanon’s ideas, in the year of his centenary, continue to provoke fear and anxiety within the Western imperialist political establishment, especially as his work gains renewed prominence among pro-Palestinian activists. It provides Sarah Jilani, one of the contributors to this special issue, with the space to respond to a 2025 policy report published by the British Conservative think tank Policy Exchange, titled After Gaza: Fanon and His Acolytes, which includes a footnote mocking Jilani while insulting Fanon’s legacy.
- [Frantz Fanon at 100: Class Struggle and the Future of African Liberation](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2026/01/09/frantz-fanon-at-100-class-struggle-and-the-future-of-african-liberation/) - 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 Fanon (1925–1961). The issue brings together a wide range of original contributions celebrating his radical life, work, legacy and continued relevance for African liberation.
- [Kenya-US Health Pact: The Brutality Is in the Benign](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/12/15/the-brutality-is-in-the-benign/) - 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 race for AI dominance. But underneath are the same old prejudices.
- [Weeding Out Seed Monopolies: The Fight for Seed Sovereignty in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/12/05/weeding-out-seed-monopolies-the-fight-for-seed-sovereignty-in-kenya/) - Indigenous seeds remain crucial to Kenyan farmers and consumers as they are more resilient to drought, pests, and diseases, and provide access to diverse crop varieties and more nutritious foods.
- [Which Way Africa? Reckoning Against Things Falling Apart!](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/12/17/which-way-africa-reckoning-against-things-falling-apart/) - Western domination wanes, international law and the institutions that support it are in their death throes. A new world order emerges.
- [America's Invasion of Venezuela: Strike of the New Global Disorder](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2026/01/08/americas-invasion-of-venezuela-strike-of-the-new-global-disorder/) - Venezuela is more than a target; it is the inaugural case study for a world where the strong do what they can, and the weak must forge new unities or suffer what they must.
- [2025: Global Inflection Point in a Fragmenting World](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/12/27/2025-global-inflection-point-in-a-fragmenting-world/) - In this sense, 2025 marked less an end than a beginning: the point at which global change ceased to be transitional and became structural.
- [2025 on the Spotlight - Zahid Rajan](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2025/12/18/2025-on-the-spotlight-zahid-rajan/) - 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 Rajan walks us through the key highlights of the year, offering a thoughtful recap of what made 2025 so eventful and what these moments have meant for the country and its citizens.
- [Community Forest Associations: Conservationists or Spectators? ](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/12/18/community-forest-associations-conservationists-or-spectators/) - Kenya’s forest conservation system remains hierarchical and paternalistic, an echo of colonial forestry administration masquerading as partnership.
- [Meeting Alice Lakwena: The Prophetess Behind Uganda's Holy Spirit Movement](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/12/19/meeting-alice-lakwena-the-prophetess-behind-ugandas-holy-spirit-movement/) - Americans are just as likely as Ugandans to be mesmerized by charismatic leaders and their promises, and by the prophecies supporting them.
- [Rest Well Baba](https://www.theelephant.info/photos/2025/10/17/rest-well-baba/) - This photo essay by Jimmy Kitiro follows a day of farewell, capturing crowds, quiet prayers, and the small gestures of solidarity that marked a nation in mourning.
- [Shut Your Mouth: Kenyan Censors Trade Blue Pencils for Cybercrime Clauses](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/12/16/shut-your-mouth-kenyan-censors-trade-blue-pencils-for-cybercrime-clauses/) - While cybercrime laws are not inherently censorship, governments around the world have weaponized them by broadly applying vague definitions of "false information" or "hate speech" to target opinions or news they disagree with.
- [Kenya-US Health Pact: Aid or Data Grab?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/12/15/kenya-us-health-pact-aid-or-data-grab/) - With the signing of the US-Kenya health cooperation framework, the sharing of the health data of Kenyans may become the latest iteration of how the country’s resources are extracted for the primary benefit of others.
- [The Art of Death in Strength and Sorrow](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2025/12/12/the-art-of-death-in-strength-and-sorrow/) - Oyunga Pala’s memoir Strength and Sorrow reveals him to be a man who has become a steward of grief, a teller of sorrows, a seeker of strength.
- [The Ideological Basis Behind the Imperial Ambitions of Ethiopia ](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/12/10/the-ideological-basis-behind-the-imperial-ambitions-of-ethiopia/) - Ethiopia’s expansionist rhetoric revives a long history of territorial ambition rooted in an Ethiopian exceptionalism that finds its basis in 14th-century mythology.
- [The Seed Syndicate: The Battle To Control What Kenyan Farmers Can Plant - Part 1](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2025/12/11/the-seed-syndicate-the-battle-to-control-what-kenyan-farmers-can-plant-part-1/) - This documentary follows Africa Uncensored's reporter Cynthia Gichiri, 2025 Bertha Challenge Fellow, as she investigates how SPVAA 2012 was crafted and whose interests it served. Her trail leads into boardrooms, ministries, and the corporate networks that pushed a law many farmers say stole their seed sovereignty.
- [Red Rivers, Grey Skies: The Global Impact of Europe’s Most Powerful Steel Giant](https://www.theelephant.info/investigations/2025/12/09/red-rivers-grey-skies-the-global-impact-of-europes-most-powerful-steel-giant/) - This cross-border investigation follows ArcelorMittal’s steel route —from African mines to European plants and Latin American sacrifice zones— showing how the global pursuit of so-called “green steel” is linked to displaced farmers in Liberia, organized crime in Mexico, and pollution in Europe.
- [Find Your Position: Africa’s Got Moves — Which Way You Facing?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/12/08/find-your-position-africas-got-moves-which-way-you-facing/) - With the decline of the United States and Western Europe as dominant powers, the rebirth of the naked “Might is Right” older world order is nigh. Which way Africa?
- [Edwin Shamir: We Are the Now..and the Future](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2025/11/21/edwin-shamir-we-are-the-now-and-the-future/) - Edwin Shamir joins Yusuf Wanjala to discuss why Gen Z must move from street protests to shaping policy, exploring how their energy, frustrations, and aspirations can drive meaningful public debate and future leadership.
- [Shakira Wafula: The Evolving Path of the Active Citizen](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2025/12/05/shakira-wafula-the-evolving-path-of-the-active-citizen/) - What happens after the protests? How do you translate protests into policy? In this episode, Shakira Wafula walks us through the various strands that give the active citizen a pathway to reform, even as they build on the recent Gen Z revolution.
- [Raila the Man, the Institution, the System, the Creative Performer](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/11/28/raila-the-man-the-institution-the-system-the-creative-performer/) - Raila Amola Odinga was an artist’s treasure trove. His long and chequered career reveals a rich dalliance with artists and the arts that he used to advance the political ideals that he stood for.
- [Trouble in the House of Ujamaa: Suluhu’s Crackdown, Tanzania’s Uprising](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/12/04/trouble-in-the-house-of-ujamaa-suluhus-crackdown-tanzanias-uprising/) - President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s decision to turn to abduction, atrocity, and massacre now threatens the political pre-eminence of Chama Cha Mapinduzi and could rewrite the rules about how the African Union supervises elections on the continent.
- [South Africa’s Hydrogen Extractive Frontier: Climate Action or Recolonisation?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/12/01/south-africas-hydrogen-extractive-frontier-climate-action-or-recolonisation/) - In this blog post, Thelma Arko and Kattia Moreno critically examine South Africa’s emerging green hydrogen sector, arguing that contemporary partnerships with European nations risk reproducing colonial extractive relationships under the guise of climate action. Arko and Moreno advance the necessity of a justice-centred, post-extractivist transition that prioritises community control, equitable benefit-sharing, and integration of renewable development with existing land uses and economic activities.
- [Geert Wilders and the Politics of Hunger in Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/11/28/geert-wilders-and-the-politics-of-hunger-in-africa/) - Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders recently declared that development aid should be redirected to domestic priorities, adding: “Then they’ll just be a little hungrier in Africa, but not here.” ZAM contributor Oyunga Pala, author and journalist based in the Netherlands, reflects on this statement.
- [How Much Does a Nigerian Intellectual Cost?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/11/27/how-much-does-a-nigerian-intellectual-cost/) - The country that once produced some of Africa’s fiercest moral voices now struggles to sustain independent thought.
- [The Place of Jomo Kenyatta’s Remains in Contemporary Kenyan Politics](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2023/04/04/the-place-of-jomo-kenyattas-remains-in-contemporary-kenyan-politics/) - If the role of Jomo Kenyatta’s mausoleum is to remind Kenyans and the world of the significant centrality of his presence in the making of the Kenyan Nation, then why is it not accessible to the public?
- [Mutemi wa Kiama: The State's Machinery of Violence](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2020/07/10/mutemi-wa-kiama-the-states-machinery-of-violence/) - The Kenyan state is trying to recreate the 1990s and send us back into the days of the dreaded special branch as it loses grip of the Kenyan society through its incompetence, dysfunction and unimaginable corruption. Public spirited citizens, as we witnessed during the Saba saba rallies, find themselves accosted by a well-oiled infrastructure of violence which is the last resort for a regime that has lost its legitimacy, willpower and capacity to lead, as narrated by Kiama Mutemi.
- [Sophie Mugure: What Next for Gen Zs?](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2025/11/14/sophie-mugure-what-next-for-gen-zs/) - As Gen Z looks ahead, the focus is shifting toward consolidating the gains of the revolution and translating momentum into lasting political power. In this episode, we speak with Sophie Mugure, a Gen Z leader preparing to vie for the Thika Town seat in the 2027 elections. She breaks down what it will take to get more young people on the ballot and the steps needed to make that vision a reality.
- [A Man Dies: A Personal Telling](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/11/14/a-man-dies-a-personal-telling/) - From a Pan-Africanist to a man relatable to all Kenyans, Raila transcended the smallness of ethnic enclaves.
- [Raila Odinga and the Price of Belief](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/11/13/raila-odinga-and-the-price-of-belief/) - Raila Odinga’s passing invites Kenya to revisit not only Raila the man but also the moral architecture of Kenya’s politics, and to reflect on the meaning of endurance, the cost of deferred hope, and the unfinished work of turning conviction into institution.
- [Early Memories of a Patriot and Breaking the News of Baba’s Death](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/11/12/early-memories-of-a-patriot-and-breaking-the-news-of-babas-death/) - From being a youngster reading about the contribution of the Odingas to Kenya’s struggle for democracy, to reporting on Raila’s death in a national newspaper.
- [Invisible Eyes: Inside State Surveillance in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2025/11/11/invisible-eyes-inside-state-surveillance-in-kenya/) - Can you hide from state surveillance? What happens when state surveillance is used on a nation's citizens to restrict their freedom? Kenya had nationwide protests in 2024. But while protests were happening, tens of young Kenyans were abducted by individuals believed to be state agents. This documentary seeks to answer questions about how the state could have tracked them. What does the state do when no one is watching? The truth is not what you think!
- [The Poisoned Bouquet: How European Giants Exploit African and Latin American Labor to Keep Flowers Cheap](https://www.theelephant.info/investigations/2025/11/07/the-poisoned-bouquet-how-european-giants-exploit-african-and-latin-american-labor-to-keep-flowers-cheap/) - While the Netherlands remains in control as the main intermediary of the global flower market, Kenya, Colombia and Ecuador have become the nursery of the North at the cost of inequality: fragile labor rights and more permissive legal and environmental frameworks keep the European business running.
- [Joshua Okayo: The Gen Z Advocate](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2025/11/07/joshua-okayo-the-gen-z-advocate/) - At the height of the Gen Z protests, a network of dedicated professionals came together to meet the movement’s diverse and evolving needs. In this episode, we sit down with Joshua Okayo, a leader, lawyer, and activist, who shares his insights on the movement’s wins, losses, gains, and the direction it is poised to take.
- [Raila Odinga’s Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/11/05/raila-odingas-kenya/) - The death of Kenya’s most enduring opposition leader invites a reckoning—not only with his contradictions, but with what his long struggle reveals about the unfinished work of liberation.
- [The Raila Odyssey: Rethinking an Icon’s Political Legacy](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/11/04/the-raila-odyssey-rethinking-an-icons-political-legacy/) - A tribute to Raila Odinga and the lessons from his legacy for the collective struggles that remain.
- [Keith Ang'ana: Keeping the Gen Z Dream Alive](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2025/11/03/keith-angana-keeping-the-gen-z-dream-alive/) - Two years on from the Gen Z revolution that reshaped the country’s political landscape, much has been said and written about its impact. While many have since moved on, a core group of pioneers and changemakers continues to carry its torch, fueling hope through their platforms, projects, and collaborations. In this interview, we meet Keith Ang'ana, whose initiatives have created vibrant spaces for dialogue, debate, and community among his peers.
- [Speak of Me as I Am: Ethiopia, Native Identities and the National Question in Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2019/01/26/speak-of-me-as-i-am/) - Does a country create a people, or do a people create a country? KALUNDI SERUMAGA responds to Mahmood Mamdani’s recent analysis on the political situation in Ethiopia.
- [Land, Rights and the Struggles of the Ngorongoro Maasai](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/02/14/land-rights-and-the-struggles-of-the-ngorongoro-maasai/) - The Tanzanian government is threatening to evict more than 80,000 Maasai from the Ngorongoro world heritage site, claiming that the Maasai must be cleared from their land in the interests of conservation and wildlife corridors.
- [East Africa: Nyerere, The Soul Of Tanzania](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2017/03/10/east-africa-nyerere-the-soul-of-tanzania/) - Nairobi, Kenya - Three months before the end of the last millennium, Africa’s arguably greatest leader-president breathed his last in a big city hospital, far away from the peasants who held him in awe and whom he loved to banter with so much. On October 14, 1999, Africa woke to the sad news of the demise
- [Tanzania: Warm on the Inside, Cold at Exit](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2019/04/24/tanzania-warm-on-the-inside-cold-at-exit-podcast/) - A podcast of Zukiswa Wanner's article "Tanzania: Warm on the Inside, Cold at Exit" published on The Elephant.
- [That Sinking Feeling: Who Is to Blame for the MV Nyerere Ferry Disaster?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2018/10/04/that-sinking-feeling-who-is-to-blame-for-the-mv-nyerere-ferry-disaster/) - Consciously or otherwise, most commentaries miss the point when attributing blame for such disasters.
- [Mwalimu vs the Bulldozer: Has Magufuli Overturned Nyerere’s Legacy?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2018/10/11/mwalimu-vs-the-bulldozer-has-magufuli-overturned-nyereres-legacy/) - The Tanzanian president has turned his back on Nyerere’s open, cosmopolitan and Pan-Africanist vision.
- [TANZANIA: Warm on the Inside, Cold at Exit](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2018/08/23/tanzania-warm-on-the-inside-cold-at-exit/) - Dar es Salaam is as different from Arusha as Eldoret is from Nairobi. Beyond the big city vibe that one gets in Dar, the city somehow feels more Tanzanian.
- [That Sinking Feeling 2.0: Who Is to Blame for Tanzanian’s Ferry Disasters?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/10/10/that-sinking-feeling-2-0-who-is-to-blame-for-tanzanians-ferry-disasters/) - Systematic overloading of poorly maintained state-owned vessels, compounded by human error, explains why Tanzanian marine transport is so dangerous, but who is answerable for mass deaths on Tanzania’s lakes? nobody, it would appear writes BRIAN COOKSEY
- [John Magufuli and the Contested Vision of a ‘New Tanzania’](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2020/07/24/john-magufuli-and-the-contested-vision-of-a-new-tanzania/) - Since 2015, the Tanzanian government has been pursuing a policy that prioritises economic development over political and human rights. However, the government’s vision of a new Tanzania has strained its relationship with Western countries, which have raised concerns about the deterioration of human rights and the closure of civic space in the country.
- [Magufuli’s Legacy: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2020/07/25/magufulis-legacy-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/) - John Pombe Magufuli’s first term as president has brought about a sea change in the way the Tanzanian government conducts business. But not all of his ultra-nationalistic policies have been for the better.
- [Tanzania: The Curious Case of John Pombe Magufuli](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/03/26/tanzania-the-curious-case-of-john-pombe-magufuli/) - The late Tanzanian president, John Pombe Magufuli, was initially lauded for his no-nonsense approach to corruption. But the cracks began to appear within months of his presidency.
- [The Extraordinary Journey of J. P. Magufuli and Comparative Perspectives of Dog-Eat-Man Regimes](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2021/05/01/the-extraordinary-journey-of-j-p-magufuli-and-comparative-perspectives-of-dog-eat-man-regimes/) - Tanzania and Kenya represent two of the continent’s more closely matched territories. But the contrast between the two countries remains among the most intriguing examples of post-independence Africa’s political comparison.
- [Africa’s Democratic Recession and Resurgence: The Case of Tanzania](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/11/02/africas-democratic-recession-and-resurgence-the-case-of-tanzania/) - Whether Tanzania transforms its crisis into renewal will depend on the courage of its youthful majority, who demand voice, opportunity, and justice. If they succeed, they will not only reshape their nation but also offer Africa a renewed vision of democracy rooted in inclusion, accountability, and hope.
- [Stablecoins and the Empty Promise: Can Digital Dollars Fix Africa's Trade Mess?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/09/29/stablecoins-and-the-empty-promise-can-digital-dollars-fix-africas-trade-mess/) - When local currencies become sufficiently unreliable, populations naturally abandon them in favor of more stable alternatives.
- [Baba's Gone. The Missing Chapter. Part 2](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2025/10/30/babas-gone-the-missing-chapter-part-2/) - Amollo taught us how to hold pain and transform sorrow into strength. He was our grief alchemist who turned suffering into blessings.
- [Raila Odinga and the Politics of Power](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/10/24/raila-odinga-and-the-politics-of-power/) - Predicating change on capturing power makes politics a zero-sum game.
- [Raila Amolo Odinga: The Passing of the Soul of the Nation](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/10/18/raila-amolo-odinga-the-passing-of-the-soul-of-the-nation/) - He was more than just a politician: a statesman shaped by decades of struggle, imprisonment, and sacrifice. Odinga’s fight for justice was not abstract—it was personal and relentless.
- [Raila Odinga: The Man Who Changed Kenya Without Ever Ruling It](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/10/17/raila-odinga-the-man-who-changed-kenya-without-ever-ruling-it/) - Raila Odinga spent his early years in Kenya before leaving in 1962 to study in East Germany. Returning in 1970, he became a university lecturer.
- [Baba's Gone!](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2025/10/16/babas-gone/) - When Baba died, I became numb. He had died of a heart attack...
- [A Dodgy Channel](https://www.theelephant.info/investigations/2025/10/15/a-dodgy-channel/) - Late last year, the world was alerted to the disturbing news that Russia was recruiting hundreds of young African women, aged 18–22, to manufacture drones in a military-industrial compound 1,000 km east of Moscow, called the Alabuga Special Economic Zone. The reports also stated that the recruits—from at least fifteen African countries—were promised good salaries and skills training, but once there, they were often trapped, facing tax deductions, dangerous working conditions, strict surveillance, and difficulties returning home. In the past six months, a team from ZAM and NAIRE in seven African countries investigated the Russian recruitment exercise—asking why so many young Africans take the chance to go, sometimes even after being warned.
- [Credible and Licensed Agents](https://www.theelephant.info/investigations/2025/10/13/credible-and-licensed-agents/) - Late last year, the world was alerted to the disturbing news that Russia was recruiting hundreds of young African women, aged 18–22, to manufacture drones in a military-industrial compound 1,000 km east of Moscow, called the Alabuga Special Economic Zone. The reports also stated that the recruits—from at least fifteen African countries—were promised good salaries and skills training, but once there, they were often trapped, facing tax deductions, dangerous working conditions, strict surveillance, and difficulties returning home. In the past six months, a team from ZAM and NAIRE in seven African countries investigated the Russian recruitment exercise—asking why so many young Africans take the chance to go, sometimes even after being warned.
- [Okiya Omtatah: The Fine Print on Your Freedoms](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2025/10/06/okiya-omtatah-the-fine-print-on-your-freedoms/) - On September 17-18, 2025, the Civic Freedom Forum held a two-day Civic Space Protection Summit in Nakuru, a gathering focused on the challenges faced by civil society and human rights defenders. The summit served as a platform for various stakeholders to discuss the increasing threats to fundamental freedoms such as expression, assembly, and association. A key concern raised was the "weaponization of the law" and digital surveillance. The summit underscored the importance of protecting civic space as a cornerstone of democracy. The keynote speaker, Okiya Omtata, urged vigilance as we develop strategies to counter these threats, strengthen civic organizations, and advocate for greater accountability as we gear up for 2027.
- [The Integrity Walk 2025 ](https://www.theelephant.info/photos/2025/10/06/the-integrity-walk-2025/) - On Saturday, September 27, 2025, more than 3,000 Kenyans joined the Integrity Walkathon, an annual event organised by Transparency International Kenya (TI-Kenya).
- [Choiceless Democracy: Malawi’s Endless Cycle of Failure](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/09/26/choiceless-democracy-malawis-endless-cycle-of-failure/) - Malawi’s political trajectory underscores the paradox of formal democratic consolidation coexisting with systemic governance collapse.
- [Nepal’s New Reality](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/09/25/nepals-new-reality/) - The youth-led uprising in Nepal has toppled the old guard, but its endurance depends on whether anger at corruption and inequality can be translated into lasting political change.
- [Redrawing Liberation](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/09/29/redrawing-liberation/) - From Gaza to Africa, colonial cartography has turned land into property and people into populations to be managed. True liberation means dismantling this order, not redrawing its lines.
- [Capitalist Crime in Africa: Maximum Profit, Little Investment](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/09/24/capitalist-crime-in-africa-maximum-profit-little-investment/) - Last year ROAPE publish new edited collection, Capitalism and Economic Crime in Africa: The Neoliberal Period. The volume brings together a collection of research articles, briefings and blog posts that were published over a period of nearly 40 years (1986–2023), in our journal and on our website. In this post, we share Laureen Snider’s Afterword, which concludes the book. Snider powerfully situates economic crime in Africa within the global neoliberal capitalist system, reminding us that every type of capitalist enterprise has invaded the continent, seeking maximum profit with minimal investment and no regard for the people.
- [The Anticolonial Roots of Kenya’s Student Strikes](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/09/19/the-anticolonial-roots-of-kenyas-student-strikes/) - From the colonial classroom to today’s exam halls, student strikes in Kenya are less outbursts than acts of political imagination—insisting that schools live up to their promise of justice and transformation.
- [Trans Sahara Route - Then and Now: How the Trans-Saharan Corridor Transformed Trade, Migration, and Tourism](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/09/16/trans-sahara-route-then-and-now-how-the-trans-saharan-corridor-transformed-trade-migration-and-tourism/) - Over the past eight centuries, the camel-led caravans that once crisscrossed the Sahara have given way to paved highways and container trucks. Yet, the same corridors that carried gold, salt, and kola nuts between West and North Africa have morphed into vital arteries for labor migration and tourism.
- [Katiba At 15 Celebrations](https://www.theelephant.info/photos/2025/09/10/katiba-at-15-celebrations/) - Kenya’s 2010 constitution turned 15 in August 2025. In commemoration of 30 years of reflection and encapsulation of the views of the majority of the citizenry, citizens gathered to honour the journey at various spaces around the country, reflecting on stories of resilience, clamour, and the never-ending fight for equity. The Elephant, Alliance Française, Creative Spills, and The Youth Congress came together to celebrate this milestone with their respective communities. The air was laden with a renewed commitment to reflect on the 2010 constitution’s progressive spirit for future generations. Here is a look at the day in pictures.
- [The Undereducation of Africa, and the Buffoonery of Kenyan Politics](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/09/12/the-undereducation-of-africa-and-the-buffoonery-of-kenyan-politics/) - But even then, these Kenyan elites are simply foot soldiers in the larger war of ignorance that has been waged by empire on the people of Africa for the last five centuries.
- [Colonize Then, Deport Now](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/09/12/colonize-then-deport-now/) - Trump’s deportation regime revives a colonial blueprint first drafted by the American Colonization Society, when Black lives were exiled to Africa to safeguard a white republic.
- [The New Face of Imperialism in Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/09/11/the-new-face-of-imperialism-in-africa/) - Caleb Oppong paints a damning picture of the new scramble for Africa unfolding in the 21st century. He sees it as a process characterised by fierce competition between old and emerging imperial powers, sustained by hypocrisy, geopolitics, and the ongoing underdevelopment of the continent. Within this framework, Oppong chastises the African elite for deepening Africa’s precarious dependency by collaborating with exploitative powers rather than serving the interests of their own nations.
- [Sleeping Beauty and the Masses: Fanon’s Class Analysis of the Postcolony](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/07/24/sleeping-beauty-and-the-masses-fanons-class-analysis-of-the-postcolony/) - In the wake of Frantz Fanon’s 100th birthday, Sam Chian offers a close reading of The Wretched of the Earth, arguing that Fanon’s primary intervention lies in his class analysis of colonial societies. He examines his critique of the national bourgeoisie and the urban working class, and his insistence on the revolutionary potential of the rural peasantry and radical intellectuals. Chian suggest that for Fanon, the social composition of the anti-colonial struggle decisively shapes the post-colonial order, and that the socialist path he outlines remains structurally constrained but politically urgent.
- [After the End: Welcome to the Age of ‘Post-post-Colonialism’](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2018/11/01/after-the-end-welcome-to-the-age-of-post-post-colonialism/) - Africa’s middle class is akin to a "stay-behind" operation that sets up secret operatives in the territory it is vacating.
- [Oliver Mtukudzi: The Art of Protest](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2019/02/07/oliver-mtukudzi-the-art-of-protest/) - It is safe to say that Mtukudzi was one of a group of African musicians – alongside the likes of Masekela – who were adopted by Kenyans as one of their own, invited back time and again for representing something which was at once soothing and liberating, always reminding their audiences that Africa was still one.
- [But You Prayed: A Lesson In Everyday Reality](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2025/09/05/but-you-prayed-a-lesson-in-everyday-reality/) - The unspoken truth about prayer and public safety on Kenyan roads
- [Kagame’s Hidden War](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/09/04/kagames-hidden-war/) - Rwanda’s military deployments in Mozambique and its shadowy ties to M23 rebels in eastern Congo are not isolated interventions, rather part of a broader geopolitical strategy to expand its regional influence.
- [The Gĩkũyũ Question: Kenya’s Coming Struggle of a Generation](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/09/03/the-gikuyu-question-kenyas-coming-struggle-of-a-generation/) - Gen Z are resisting tribal arithmetic even as the political class reaches for the bogeyman of Gĩkũyũ hegemony.
- [Seeds of Discontent: Kenya’s Seed Law Undermines Farmers’ Resilience](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/08/29/seeds-of-discontent-kenyas-seed-law-undermines-farmers-resilience/) - Kenya’s seed law privileges seed multinationals while weakening the country’s food system’s genetic diversity and marginalizing the very people who feed the country.
- [African Continental Free Trade Area at Five: Taking Stock](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/08/28/african-continental-free-trade-area-at-five-taking-stock/) - The progress, prospects, and persistent challenges faced by the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) over the five years since its official launch in 2020.
- [Türkiye in West Africa: Soft Power Rhetoric, Hard Power Reality](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/08/27/turkiye-in-west-africa-soft-power-rhetoric-hard-power-reality/) - The paradigm shift in West Africa, crystallized in the search for alternatives to the West, full independence, a multidimensional foreign policy, and the spread of prosperity to the grassroots, has necessitated the development of a new approach for Türkiye.
- [Humour as a Form of Resistance in the Kenyan Gen Z Protests](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/08/25/humour-as-a-form-of-resistance-in-the-kenyan-gen-z-protests/) - Kenya’s Gen Z has not reinvented resistance but it has digitised an old repertoire and spliced it with a wicked sense of play.
- [International Public Health is Sick: Who Can Heal It?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/08/21/international-public-health-is-sick-who-can-heal-it/) - Health freedom advocates are deeply concerned that public health is moving away from a human rights orientation towards an increasingly authoritarian one.
- [Gen Z’s Political Coming of Age: Breaking Cycles through Alternative Systems](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/08/22/gen-zs-political-coming-of-age-breaking-cycles-through-alternative-systems/) - The Finance Bill protests revealed Generation Z’s unprecedented capacity for collective action. This capacity must now be channelled not just into opposing what exists, but into creating what might be.
- [Green Colonialism: Against the Anti-Imperialists Par Excellence](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/08/13/green-colonialism-against-the-anti-imperialists-par-excellence/) - In a robust defence of his co-edited collection, Dismantling Green Colonialism, Hamza Hamouchene argues against what he terms as a left politics that sermonises on the only right path to “genuine anti-colonial and anti-imperialist” politics with arrogance reminiscent of the colonialists.
- [Dear Dr. Joyce Nyairo](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2025/08/18/dear-dr-joyce-nyairo/) - Wandia Njoya reflects on Dr. Joyce Nyairo’s Kenya@50, admitting she only grasped its true meaning a decade later, after confronting Kenya’s stories and struggles through the bruising battle over the Competency-Based Curriculum.
- [Communities Pay the Price for Oil in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/08/15/communities-pay-the-price-for-oil-in-kenya/) - Oil production in Kenya – at whose cost? How pastoralists, oil workers and land rights activists in northern Kenya are resisting oil companies.
- [Kenya’s Elusive Digital Driving Licenses: Who Pays and Who Profits](https://www.theelephant.info/investigations/2020/10/16/kenyas-elusive-digital-driving-licenses-who-pays-and-who-profits/) - Leaked documents from Belgian biometrics company point to inflated pricing and political influence in license contracts.
- [Epistemic Injustice in Global Health and Development](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2025/08/06/epistemic-injustice-in-global-health-and-development/) - The best ideas in global health and development often come from the margins. So why do we still ignore them?
- [Kavirondo and My Triple Heritage](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/08/05/kavirondo-and-my-triple-heritage/) - A triple heritage forms the background to Kavirondo: The Story of Luos and Luhyas, a book that explores the writer’s multiple identities.
- [African Union turns 62 with Little to Celebrate](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/08/01/african-union-turns-62-with-little-to-celebrate/) - “African Solutions for African Problems” rings hollow as the AU continues to rely on external support to finance its core functions and programmes, especially in conflict resolution and peacekeeping.
- [Re-Worlding Africa: Imagination, Time and Sculpting The Future](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/07/30/re-worlding-africa-imagination-time-and-sculpting-the-future/) - A keynote address by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor at the Africa Literature Association Conference 2025, hosted in Nairobi, Kenya on June 26, 2025.
- [So, Who is a Terrorist in Kenya?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/07/28/so-who-is-a-terrorist-in-kenya/) - Mutunga interrogates the tagging of protesters in Kenya’s mass action as terrorists and unveils acts of terrorism and the perpetrators that should be so characterized.
- [The Grift Tank](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/07/25/the-grift-tank/) - In Washington’s think tank ecosystem, Africa is treated as a low-stakes arena where performance substitutes for knowledge. The result: unqualified actors shaping policy on behalf of militarists, lobbyists, and frauds.
- [Africa: In the Gap Between Empires](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/07/23/in-the-gap-between-empires/) - The ability of African leaders to go rogue and begin looking at policies that benefit their people even at the expense of Western interests is growing while Western countries are not able to push back as effectively as they used to during the Cold War and the decades after.
- [Grief's Inheritance: A Lesson in Hindsight for Gen Z](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2025/07/17/griefs-inheritance-a-lesson-in-hindsight-for-gen-z/) - Millennials have their versions of lost innocence: 2007 and 2017, the seismic years of post-election violence. And now, watching you Gen Zs, I see that same flicker of dawning realization in your eyes.
- [Glorifying and Celebrating the Martyrs of June 25, 2024 Gen Z Revolution in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/07/16/glorifying-and-celebrating-the-martyrs-of-june-25-2024-gen-z-revolution-in-kenya/) - Mutunga celebrates the Gen Z Revolution in Kenya, highlighting the successes of their collective leadership through analysis of the Kenyan government's attempt to stifle celebrations of the Martyrs of the Gen Z Revolution who died in June of 2024.
- [The Debacle of 2007: How Kenyan Politics Was Frozen and an Election Stolen With US Connivance](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2017/06/08/the-debacle-of-2007-how-kenyan-politics-was-frozen-and-an-election-stolen-with-us-connivance/) - About 10 years ago, I was preparing to move with my family to Nairobi from the United States just as Kenya was well into the 2007 election campaign. Although I was taking up a temporary job in “democracy assistance” as the resident director for East Africa of the non-governmental International Republican Institute, I was told
- [Kenya: Progress Unfolded in the Fullness of Time](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/07/11/kenya-progress-unfolded-in-the-fullness-of-time/) - Time has distilled the corruptible from the incorruptible. This distillation has hurt. Trust has been ruined and, with time, built. The magic of time has opened us to deeper truths.
- [Taking Back the House: Gen Zs and the Crisis of Representation in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/07/10/taking-back-the-house-gen-zs-and-the-crisis-of-representation-in-kenya/) - In previous waves of political protest and agitation, Kenyans have sought to expand inclusion within existing political and economic structures. Now Gen Zs are questioning the very structures themselves.
- [The Decolonial Literature of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2025/07/12/the-decolonial-literature-of-ngugi-wa-thiongo/) - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s decolonial writings are a brave and persistent attempt to recover African histories, voices, and futures.
- [How the 2010 Constitution Was Hijacked to Silence Kenyans](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/07/09/how-the-2010-constitution-was-hijacked-to-silence-kenyans/) - Departing from the spirit of the 2010 Constitution that was designed to actively bring about significant social change, lawmakers have resorted to passings laws that seek to suppress public criticism of the political class and demands for accountability.
- [The Humility, Purpose and Power of a Pheroze Mentorship](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2025/07/09/the-humility-purpose-and-power-of-a-pheroze-mentorship/) - The intellect, integrity, voice and humanity of Pheroze Nowrojee illustrate what perfection, dignity, commitment, and true goodness in a human being is.
- [Saba Saba: 35 Years On](https://www.theelephant.info/photos/2025/07/08/saba-saba-35-years-on/) - Yearly, peaceful protests are held on 7th July to mark the historic date when Kenya's constitution was challenged, allowing the formation of other political parties. A tense atmosphere gripped this year's Saba Saba that was marked in at least 17 counties on Monday as Kenyans heeded the call to hit the streets in commemoration and in protest.
- [Echoes of Mau Mau in Kenya’s Gen Z Movement](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/07/04/echoes-of-mau-mau-in-kenyas-gen-z-movement/) - The Mau Mau and Gen Z movements share similarities in the youthfulness of their membership and the decentralised nature of their operations. However, the Gen Z movement is a new, more inclusive, broad-based movement that is in many ways unprecedented in Kenyan history.
- [25th June Gen Z Protests: Virtue in the Face of Brute Force](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/07/03/25th-june-gen-z-protests-virtue-in-the-face-of-brute-force/) - Kenya’s youth are not “perishing at the gates of false martyrdom” as some religious leaders have concluded, but confronting their alienation with courage.
- [What Endures: The Persistence of Kenyan Ghosts Across Time](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2025/07/04/what-endures-the-persistence-of-kenyan-ghosts-across-time/) - The troubles of Kenya are the howl of ghosts, distant and recent, forgotten voices that have coalesced to a thundering.
- [In the Fight for Kenya’s Soul, Choose Your Fighter, Choose Your Stance ](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/07/03/in-the-fight-for-kenyas-soul-choose-your-fighter-choose-your-stance/) - The June 25 protests are a political and social reset, and for those agitating for good governance, this movement defies tribal tropes, class cleavages and generational schisms.
- [Kenyans Are Fighting to Build Their Country Themselves](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/06/30/kenyans-are-fighting-to-build-their-country-themselves/) - Kenya is where it is because Kenyan institutions have remained solidly colonial and have stagnated, blocking Kenyans from building their own country.
- [The Gen Z Protest Anniversary](https://www.theelephant.info/photos/2025/06/27/the-gen-z-protest-anniversary/) - To commemorate the one-year mark since the June 25th 2024 Gen Z revolution, Kenyans-young and old-hit the streets. In total, there were protests in 27 of the 47 counties. Kenyans of all classes, creeds, ethnicity and persuasion went out to the protests in solidarity. Our photojournalist Jimmy Kitiro captured the moments and brought us these images.
- [Souls On Fire: Behind Kenya's 2024 Protests](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2025/06/26/souls-on-fire-behind-kenyas-2024-protests/) - On June 25, 2024, Kenya turned a page in its history. What began as a protest against a controversial tax bill quickly escalated into something far more powerful—and tragic. Fueled by frustration and economic strain, citizens poured into the streets. Lives were lost. People disappeared. And for the first time in Kenya's history, protesters breached Parliament. One year later, #SoulsonFire uncovers the untold story behind Kenya’s 2024 uprising. Through the voices of those who lived it, fought in it, and were changed by it, this documentary captures the courage, the loss, and the awakening of a generation.
- [The Silent Architects of Resistance](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2025/06/26/the-silent-architects-of-resistance/) - The Maandamano of June 2024 reminded us that resistance is not just what happens in the streets. It is also what happens in the clinics, in courtrooms, in code, in verse, and in the conviction of every citizen that this country belongs to all of us.
- [June 2024 - Seven Days of Rage](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2025/06/25/june-2024-seven-days-of-rage/) - The June 2024 protests that began as a rallying cry to reject the Finance Bill 2024 turned into seven days of rage as the government resorted to high-handedness and brute force.
- [Kenya Should Impose Term Limits on all Elective Positions](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/06/17/kenya-should-impose-term-limits-on-all-elective-positions/) - Placing term limits on all elective positions in Kenya will do away with career politicians who have nothing to show but ill-gotten wealth and years of brokering ethnic voter bases for their individual gain.
- [Dictatorships Are Gender-Neutral](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/06/23/dictatorships-are-gender-neutral/) - In East Africa there is a class that rules over the working people. It is in Tanzania that I understood who they are.
- [To Save Our Democracy, Fix the Civic Culture - John Khaminwa](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2025/04/18/to-save-our-democracy-fix-the-civic-culture-john-khaminwa/) - Since independence, successive Kenyan governments have—even in the worst of times—relied on a few honourable men and women to sustain the civic public. More importantly, these men and women of honour have depended on robust debate and sound ideas, grounded in law and politics, to pursue their vision of a better society. Senior Counsel John Khaminwa invites us to examine the tools available to the current crop of leaders—tools they can rely upon to build strong institutions for Kenya’s future.
- [Governments Thrive on Good Ideas - John Khaminwa](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2025/04/25/governments-thrive-on-good-ideas-john-khaminwa/) - Since independence, successive Kenyan governments have—even in the worst of times—relied on a few honourable men and women to sustain the civic public. More importantly, these men and women of honour have depended on robust debate and sound ideas, grounded in law and politics, to pursue their vision of a better society. Senior Counsel John Khaminwa invites us to examine the tools available to the current crop of leaders—tools they can rely upon to build strong institutions for Kenya’s future.
- [Gen Zs Have to Translate Protests to Policy - Prof. Maria Nzomo](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2025/06/20/gen-zs-have-to-translate-protests-to-policy-prof-maria-nzomo/) - In this episode, we converse with Prof. Maria Nzomo about what Gen Z misses by bypassing formal institutions, and that achieving policy leverage is not only through protests, but also through formal engagement, to embed their demands into frameworks like Kenya’s Public Participation Act. They will also need to hybridise their quest through protest and litigation by using courts to enforce rights, as well as electoral infiltration by running for political offices and supporting their peers who vie.
- [Remembering Ngũgĩ the Writer as a Journalist ](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2025/06/20/remembering-ngugi-the-writer-as-a-journalist/) - Well before he came into global literary acclaim, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o had worked at the Daily Nation as a cub reporter and as a columnist, writing under the name James Ngugi.
- [War Economy Risk in the Great Lakes Region: A Global Comparative Review](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/06/16/war-economy-risk-in-the-great-lakes-region-a-global-comparative-review/) - The highly vulnerable Great Lakes region may unfortunately follow the same path to a war economy observed in fragile and conflict-afflicted states elsewhere in the world.
- [Ethnic Federalism and Public Land Ownership in Ethiopia](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/05/29/ethnic-federalism-and-public-land-ownership-in-ethiopia/) - The coexistence of ethnic federalism and public land ownership within Ethiopia’s constitutional framework has evolved into a critical governance challenge as the system fosters inequality, suppresses mobility, and intensifies conflict.
- [Activism Is a Relay, Not a Sprint - Martha Karua](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2025/05/30/activism-is-a-relay-not-a-sprint-martha-karua/) - In this episode of our Intergenerational Solidarity series, we sit down with Martha Karua, a trailblazer, advocate, and political icon, for a candid and insightful conversation on leadership, integrity, intergenerational responsibility, and what it takes to stand firm in the face of adversity. From her early days in activism to navigating Kenya’s political landscape, Karua reflects on her journey and shares wisdom for the next generation.
- [The Levers of Power Are Reckoning - Prof. Karuti Kanyinga](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2025/06/15/the-levers-of-power-are-reckoning-prof-karuti-kanyinga/) - The current political moment is forcing many spaces where power is exercised and visualized to reckon with the Gen Z revolution. And as Prof. Karuti Kanyinga clarifies, in this interim window, some old truths remain salient; that we need to take the youths seriously, listen to their demands and train them to lead the country in the now and the near future.
- [Police Tales of Ojwang Death: It Could Be Apartheid South Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/06/12/police-tales-of-ojwang-death-it-could-be-apartheid-south-africa/) - The initial press statement of the National Police Service concerning the death of Albert Omondi Ojwang claiming that he had died from self-inflicted injuries brought to mind claims of suicide made by the apartheid police when people died in their custody.
- [Death in Detention: Protests Over the Death of Albert Ojwang](https://www.theelephant.info/photos/2025/06/11/death-in-detention-protests-over-death-of-albert-ojwang/) - Dozens of Kenyans protested in Nairobi on 10th June 2025 following the death of 31-year-old teacher and rugby coach Albert Omondi Ojwang in police custody. Arrested in Homa Bay and transported to Nairobi, the circumstances of his death are now under investigation.
- [Nairobi CBD's Weekend Street Culture](https://www.theelephant.info/photos/2025/06/10/nairobi-cbds-weekend-street-culture/) - The CBD's weekend street culture celebrates diversity and cultural exchange, incorporating influences from various traditions and creating a tight-knit community.
- [Trump’s Tour of the Middle East: Lessons for Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/06/11/trumps-tour-of-the-middle-east-lessons-for-africa/) - Africa ought to look at the Middle East and take lessons about sovereignty and a political economy that would enable the richest continent in the world to use its resources for its own self-sustenance.
- [Kenya’s Police Are Violent and Unaccountable – Should They Be Abolished?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2023/03/24/kenyas-police-are-violent-and-unaccountable-should-they-be-abolished/) - After Kenya’s independence in 1963, the police were “Africanised” but retained much of their colonial character. Under Daniel arap Moi’s authoritarian regime (1978-2002), the police continued to play a key role in repressing dissent.
- [Kenya National Police Service: Last Bastion of the Colonial Home Guard](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/08/08/kenya-national-police-service-last-bastion-of-the-colonial-home-guard/) - The Home Guard is institutionalised at the National Police Service and is evident in the lives that have been claimed through state-sanctioned violence during the ongoing Gen Z protests.
- [The Youth Are the Guardrails of Democracy - Martha Karua](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2025/05/30/the-youth-are-the-guardrails-of-democracy-martha-karua/) - In the latest episode of our Intergenerational Series Podcast, we sit down with Martha Karua, a trailblazer, advocate, and political icon, for a candid and insightful conversation on leadership, integrity, intergenerational responsibility, and what it takes to stand firm in the face of adversity. From her early days in activism to navigating Kenya’s political landscape, Karua reflects on her journey and shares wisdom for the next generation.
- [The Protracted Sudan Conflict and Why Mediation has Failed](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/05/23/the-protracted-sudan-conflict-and-why-mediation-has-failed/) - To bring an end to the conflict in Sudan, the control of natural resources that has led to socio-economic and political marginalisation needs to be addressed and a fair, inclusive, and sustainable mechanism of resource sharing put in place.
- [Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: The Writer Who Made Language a Battlefield](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/06/05/ngugi-wa-thiongo-the-writer-who-made-language-a-battlefield/) - Ngũgĩ’s most important contributions were on language. His novels, his essays, and his unyielding belief in the dignity of African languages reshaped world literature. To call him merely a “great African writer” would be to shrink his genius – he was one of the most vital thinkers of our age, a voice who spoke from Kenya but to humanity.
- [Remembering Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o the Dream Weaver](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/06/04/remembering-ngugi-wa-thiongo-the-dream-weaver/) - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was a dream weaver who dared to weave his stories with the authentic embroidery of his Gĩkũyũ language, spiritualizing language as culture and tool for decolonizing the mind.
- [My Intellectual Debt to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/06/03/my-intellectual-debt-to-ngugi-wa-thiongo/) - A tribute to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o whose works have had a major impact on my outlook, influencing what I think about a wide range of topics.
- [Songs of Elon: Notes on Elon Musk-Donald Trump Bromance](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2025/05/30/songs-of-elon-notes-on-elon-musk-donald-trump-bromance/) - The American release phase is in full swing, a transitional order that few saw coming, even though the signs had been there since before 2016.
- [Gen Zs Forced a Reckoning for All the Levers of Power - L. Muthoni Wanyeki](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2025/05/16/gen-zs-forced-a-reckoning-for-all-the-levers-of-power-l-muthoni-wanyeki/) - The online and offline agitation by the Gen Z cluster has forced the centres of power and political negotiations to grapple with their relevance, function, even as the political class try to reconsolidate. And as political scientist Muthoni Wanyeki outlines, we are at an inflexion point which will upend some critical assumptions about who we are as a country.
- [The Gen Z Moment Has Redefined Power and Politics - Atsango Chesoni](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2025/05/04/the-gen-z-moment-has-redefined-power-and-politics-atsango-chesoni/) - The Gen Z protests created a critical political moment whose impact has unravelled many political assumptions. In the midst of it, the constitution stands to mediate between the governed and the governing principles. In this episode, lawyer Atsango Chesoni unpacks the crucial turning points in our constitutional moments that have tested the efficacy of our constitutional document as a country.
- [Reflecting on Protest and Power Among Kenyan Gen Zs – Gitobu Imanyara](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2025/04/12/reflecting-on-protest-and-power-among-kenyan-gen-zs-gitobu-imanyara/) - Kenya’s third liberation is laden with all kinds of tentative solidarities between the Gen Zs and their elders, with lessons drawn from the past finding new meaning and expression in the current fight. In this episode, Senior Counsel Gitobu Imanyara reflects on what it meant to fight in the second liberation and to watch the current crop of young citizens pick up the struggle for a more livable Kenya.
- [Severing the Ties to Kenya’s Historic Fantasy Bond](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/05/28/severing-the-ties-to-kenyas-historic-fantasy-bond/) - Monaja’s new album, June 25th, is unlike anything that has emerged from last year’s Gen Z protests.
- [App Trapped: Digital Debt, Default and Distress](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2025/05/27/app-trapped-digital-debt-default-and-distress/) - Kenya’s digital lending boom has offered quick cash at the tap of a button—but at what cost? This exposé uncovers how borrowers are falling into a trap of sky-high interest rates, harassment, and even physical threats. From Kibera to Kisumu, we hear from victims whose lives have been upended by predatory loan apps, and from experts calling for stronger regulation. As apps flourish with little oversight, a growing number of Kenyans are left battling debt, shame, and fear.
- [Turbulence in the Horn of Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/04/30/turbulence-in-the-horn-of-africa/) - Why are African-led interventions in the region failing despite the proliferation of both international and African-led peace initiatives?
- [The Gen Z Protests Demand a Verdict - Atsango Chesoni](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2025/05/04/how-determinate-is-the-constitutional-text-atsango-chesoni/) - The Gen Z protests created a critical political moment whose impact has unravelled many political assumptions. In the midst of it, the constitution stands to mediate between the governed and the governing principles. In this episode, lawyer Atsango Chesoni unpacks the crucial turning points in our constitutional moments that have tested the efficacy of our constitutional document as a country.
- [Beyond the High-Rises: Can Nairobi House Its Next Generation?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/05/16/beyond-the-high-rises-can-nairobi-house-its-next-generation/) - Nairobi’s exclusionary housing threatens the vital sharing of social and economic classes necessary for a vibrant and resilient city.
- [Midnight Safari: How and Why David Ndii Was Abducted](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2018/03/02/midnight-safari-how-and-why-david-ndii-was-abducted/) - Ndii’s abduction and his 500km journey in the dead of the night on December 4, 2017, was a precursor to lawyer Miguna Miguna’s dawn kidnapping from his house in the suburbs of Nairobi and his eventual deportation to Canada.
- [CSR Unmasked: When Companies Give With One Hand and Take With the Other ](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/05/26/csr-unmasked-when-companies-give-with-one-hand-and-take-with-the-other/) - The historical exploitation of African resources continues apace, including through corporate social responsibility which is widely touted as a way for businesses to give back to society.
- [Title Deals 2: Legacy of Loss](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2025/05/21/title-deals-2-legacy-of-loss/) - What happens when court orders are ignored, titles mean nothing, and land cartels operate with impunity? In the next episode of #TitleDeals, we follow two families fighting to reclaim what was taken from them - and ask the bigger question: can ordinary Kenyans really count on the system to protect their land?
- [Title Deals 2: Living in Limbo](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2025/05/02/title-deals-2-living-in-limbo/) - The historic Jericho estate is one of Nairobi's oldest planned communities. It is home to many, including 86-year-old Priscilla Wanjiku, who now faces an uncertain future as the county’s Urban Renewal project moves in. Other historic estates - Woodley, Muthurwa and Makongeni, are being levelled for new projects, displacing residents and uprooting well established lives.Jericho may be next. While residents were told these homes would one day be theirs, they fear that they will be made homeless after their homes are levelled. Was that promise ever real?
- [Title Deals 2: Land and Lawlessness](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2025/04/20/title-deals-2-land-and-lawlessness/) - When Flora Wambeti and her husband James Mungai received news that unknown individuals had sent a breakdown truck to remove a container they had placed on their piece of land in Thika town, they assumed it was yet another attempt to steal the container—something that had happened before. What they didn’t realize was that this was part of a well-orchestrated scheme to steal their land, involving collusion between officials at the Land Registry and members of the security agencies. In this episode, we uncover the key players behind the plot and how the plan was executed.
- [What JFK Assassination Records Reveal About CIA Activities in Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/05/20/what-jfk-assassination-records-reveal-about-cia-activities-in-africa/) - Declassified records pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy are a trove of information about CIA activities in Africa.
- [Nairobi’s Missing Binfrastructure](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/05/19/nairobis-missing-binfrastructure/) - For lack of waste disposal infrastructure, garbage is dumped anywhere and everywhere. The days when Nairobi was the “green city in the sun” are long gone.
- [Online Action Has Real-Time Offline Consequences - L. Muthoni Wanyeki](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2025/05/17/online-action-has-real-time-offline-consequences-l-muthoni-wanyeki/) - The online and offline agitation by the Gen Z cluster has forced the centres of power and political negotiations to grapple with their relevance, function, even as the political class try to reconsolidate. And as political scientist Muthoni Wanyeki outlines, we are at an inflexion point which will upend some critical assumptions about who we are as a country.
- [The Enduring Colonialism and Neoliberalism in Africa – A Close Look at Nigeria’s Political-Economic Entanglements With Imperial Structures](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/05/15/the-enduring-colonialism-and-neoliberalism-in-africa-a-close-look-at-nigerias-political-economic-entanglements-with-imperial-structures/) - Many observers wonder why numerous countries that gained independence long after most African nations now enjoy significantly stronger economies and development indicators. Looking beyond superficial explanations requires understanding how neocolonialism functions as a persistent system of control and extraction by Western powers, effectively preventing genuine independence and sovereignty across much of Africa.
- [The End of US Empire Is Not the End of the World](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/05/14/the-end-of-us-empire-is-not-the-end-of-the-world/) - As American hegemony unravels, the Global South must resist both nostalgia and passivity. Multipolarity won’t arrive on its own—it must be built through struggle.
- [A Journey from Organic Farming to the World Transformation Movement](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/05/12/a-journey-from-organic-farming-to-the-world-transformation-movement/) - To bring a more sustainable, equitable and peaceful life to every human, we need to get to the bottom of what is driving all the destruction. Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition does.
- [Muthiora – Mysterious Death of a Freedom Fighter](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/05/07/muthiora-mysterious-death-of-a-freedom-fighter/) - Young Kenyans struggling against oppression and injustice may find inspiration in the story of Johnstone Muthiora, a sixteen-year-old Mau Mau detainee who escaped from the notorious Manyani Detention Camp and lived to tell the tale.
- [Pheroze Nowrojee – A Stalwart of Justice and Compassion](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2025/05/08/pheroze-nowrojee-a-stalwart-of-justice-and-compassion/) - Pheroze Nowrojee’s life was proof of that belief. May his soul rest in power.
- [A Tribute to Pheroze Nowrojee](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2025/05/09/a-tribute-to-pheroze-nowrojee/) - Pheroze Nowrojee’s intergenerational conversation with Darius Okolla shows the way forward, not just for the Gen Zs in Kenya but for us all across the globe.
- [From Migration to Remote Work: A New Path to Prosperity for Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/05/06/from-migration-to-remote-work-a-new-path-to-prosperity-for-africa/) - Unlike the fraught path of migration, remote work offers a dignified and sustainable route to success – one that allows Africans to stay rooted in their homeland while tapping into global opportunities.
- [History as Society’s Warning System – Pheroze Nowrojee](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2025/03/21/history-as-societys-warning-system-pheroze-nowrojee/) - In light of the recent political events since June 2024 in Kenya, a dearth of voices have tried to situate and tie these sets of events to immediate pressing concerns and triggers such as theft and high cost of living. In this episode, Senior Counsel Pheroze Nowrojee invites us into an intergenerational conversation to examine the long line of agitation that has kept the power systems in check and what tools from history the Gen Zs can lean on, to drive their agenda forward.
- [History as Society’s Warning System – Pheroze Nowrojee](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2025/03/24/history-as-societys-warning-system-pheroze-nowrojee-podcast/) - In light of the recent political events since June 2024 in Kenya, a dearth of voices have tried to situate and tie these sets of events to immediate pressing concerns and triggers such as theft and high cost of living. In this episode, Senior Counsel Pheroze Nowrojee invites us into an intergenerational conversation to examine the long line of agitation that has kept the power systems in check and what tools from history the Gen Zs can lean on, to drive their agenda forward.
- [Puntland Anti-ISIS Campaign: A Model for Terrorism-Ridden Regions](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/04/28/puntland-anti-isis-campaign-a-model-for-terrorism-ridden-regions/) - Puntland is showing that a military with limited resources and manpower can defeat global terrorists by relying on grassroots community mobilisation.
- [Reflecting on Protest and Power Among Kenyan Gen Zs - Gitobu Imanyara](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2025/04/04/reflecting-on-protest-and-power-among-kenyan-gen-zs/) - Kenya’s third liberation is laden with all kinds of tentative solidarities between the Gen Zs and their elders, with lessons drawn from the past finding new meaning and expression in the current fight. In this episode, Senior Counsel Gitobu Imanyara reflects on what it meant to fight in the second liberation and to watch the current crop of young citizens pick up the struggle for a more livable Kenya.
- [Arror & Kimwarer Dams Saga: Fighting Corruption or Realpolitik?](https://www.theelephant.info/investigations/2022/08/08/arror-kimwarer-dams-saga-fighting-corruption-or-realpolitik/) - The cases at the Milimani Anticorruption Court provide few concrete answers amid claims that the investigations into the Arror and Kimwarer Dams projects are politically motivated to weaken Deputy President William Ruto who is running for the presidency.
- [Decarbonization Reproduces Colonial Inequalities](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/04/24/decarbonization-reproduces-colonial-inequalities/) - Brandon Marc Finn and Patrick Brandful Cobbinah argue that in the DR Congo, industrial mining companies and political elites operate under the banner of decarbonization while perpetuating historic injustices.
- [Africa and the AI Race](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/04/23/africa-and-the-ai-race/) - At summits and in speeches, African leaders promise to harness AI for development. But without investment in power, connectivity, and people, the continent risks replaying old failures in new code.
- [Khartoum Civil War Sparks Ecocide in Sudan](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/04/21/khartoum-civil-war-sparks-ecocide-in-sudan/) - The warring factions in Sudan have adopted ecocide as a tactic of war, targeting environmental resources with catastrophic results for food and water security.
- [From Hope to Chaos: South Sudan at a Crossroads](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/04/17/from-hope-to-chaos-south-sudan-at-a-crossroads/) - Without major institutional reforms, credible elections in December 2026 remain highly doubtful, and the country risks another violent crisis.
- [Why the Far Right Needs Violence](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/04/16/why-the-far-right-needs-violence/) - Javier Milei rose to power promising freedom—but his government is unleashing economic violence, criminalizing dissent, and testing the limits of Argentina’s democracy.
- [Power Asymmetries in Global Health Governance: Challenges and Local Struggles in Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/04/14/power-asymmetries-in-global-health-governance-challenges-and-local-struggles-in-africa/) - Africa’s health systems are deeply influenced by the structures of the global political economy. From international financial institutions (IFIs) to private health initiatives, the governance of health in Africa reflects stark inequalities. In this piece, Vivek N.D. explores how systemic issues within global health governance influence Africa’s health landscape, examine the environmental and economic factors worsening health crises and discuss the challenges faced by regional initiatives like the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). The piece provides a critical analysis of the interaction between global and local factors, highlighting systemic flaws in Africa’s health governance.
- [The Cost of Care](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/04/11/the-cost-of-care/) - In Africa’s migration economy, women’s labor fuels households abroad while their own needs are sidelined at home. What does freedom look like when care itself becomes a form of exile?
- [Giving Up on the Fight Against Corruption](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/04/10/giving-up-on-the-fight-against-corruption/) - In the years since independence, the Kenyan government has made vociferous pledges to root out corruption, but the only visible change is in the amounts stolen – no longer in the millions but in the billions of shillings.
- [Reclaiming Nadome: A Story of Memory, Identity, and Conflict](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/04/08/reclaiming-nadome-a-story-of-memory-identity-and-conflict/) - Without peace, protection and unity of all that inhabit the Suguta Belt, there can be no hope of return to Nadome.
- [No Laughing Matter](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/04/07/no-laughing-matter/) - Persecution of cartoonists and satirists is on the rise in Kenya. The government must ensure that they enjoy the freedom to express themselves through their art as enshrined in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
- [Maandamano Mondays in Photos - 27th March](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2023/03/29/maandamano-mondays-in-photos-27th-march-2/) - Kenya is settling into a protracted period of resistance as land and property invasions have accompanied the demonstrations. Images from the Monday, 27th March 2023 protests.
- [Maandamano Mondays in Photos - 20th March](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2023/03/22/maandamano-mondays-in-photos-20th-march/) - Opposition leader Raila Odinga's supporters took to the streets on Monday, 20th March 2023 to protest the high cost of living in Kenya.
- [The Battle for Lamu: How a 210m Tall Coal Plant Threatens Kenya’s Future](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/04/01/the-battle-for-lamu-how-a-210m-tall-coal-plant-threatens-kenyas-future/) - This almost 10-year court case highlights the discrepancy between Kenya’s interests in economic growth and the protection of its environment and citizens’ livelihoods.
- [One Man’s Quest to Document a Language That Won’t Be Tamed](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/03/31/one-mans-quest-to-document-a-language-that-wont-be-tamed/) - Documenting Sheng, the constantly evolving language of the youth of Kenya’s ghettos, has been Duncan Ongweno’s calling and his life’s work.
- [The Devastation of a Childhood Spent in Remand](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/03/26/the-devastation-of-a-childhood-spent-in-remand/) - Kenya has an advanced juvenile justice system but there is a need for more funding and resources to keep children out of custody.
- [Marine Cargo Insurance Directive: Protectionism or Trade Barrier?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/03/28/marine-cargo-insurance-directive-protectionism-or-trade-barrier/) - The debate over the mandatory enforcement of Marine Cargo Insurance in Kenya highlights the complex intersection of regulatory intent, industry preparedness, and global trade realities.
- [Beyond Corruption: Africa’s Institutional Crisis is a Crisis of Trust](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/03/27/beyond-corruption-africas-institutional-crisis-is-a-crisis-of-trust/) - Where citizens do not believe the state represents everyone equally, no anti-corruption law will convince people to stop looting when they finally gain access to power.
- [Africa Climate Summit 2025: What’s Next for Africa’s Climate Agenda? ](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/03/25/africa-climate-summit-2025-whats-next-for-africas-climate-agenda/) - The inaugural Africa Climate Summit was held in Kenya in 2023. Why the apparent reluctance of other African governments to host the 2025 summit?
- [Writing like Rasna](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2025/02/12/writing-like-rasna/) - Another brilliant aspect of Rasna’s writing was her ability to weave everyday life into every story, and then use it to talk about global issues.
- [Safaricom Under Fire: Time to Hold Kenya's Telecom Giant Accountable for Its Rogue Actions](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/02/14/safaricom-under-fire-time-to-hold-kenyas-telecom-giant-accountable-for-its-rogue-actions/) - Safaricom must be held accountable for its alleged rogue practices, ensuring transparency and compliance with regulations to protect consumer rights and maintain public trust.
- [In Defence of the Judiciary: Do Not Throw the Baby Out with the Bathwater](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/03/06/in-defence-of-the-judiciary-do-not-throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater/) - Even though the judiciary has its own fault lines, it remains a bulwark against those who find the constitution and the law inconvenient.
- [Pio Gama Pinto: Independent Kenya’s First Political Assassination](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/03/04/pio-gama-pinto-independent-kenyas-first-political-assassination/) - It has been 60 years since Pio Gama Pinto was assassinated. What would have been Kenya’s political trajectory had Pinto lived?
- [Safeguarding Data Rights in the Information Age](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/03/07/safeguarding-data-rights-in-the-information-age/) - In adopting the Data Protection Act in 2019, Kenya acknowledged the need for strong and strict data protection. However, resource limitations and a lack of public awareness are hampering the enforcement of the Act.
- [The Dissolution of Development Partnerships](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/03/13/the-dissolution-of-development-partnerships/) - Volodymyr Zelensky’s reception at the White House should give African leaders pause for thought as to the true nature of their relations with Western capitals.
- [A Brave New World in Berlin](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/03/14/a-brave-new-world-in-berlin/) - On academic freedom, borderless collaboration and scientific cooperation in an unequal world.
- [Reform Aid? Beware the Orphan-Crushing Machine](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/03/24/reform-aid-beware-the-orphan-crushing-machine/) - “What a world without aid requires is a world without the systems that create justifications for aid.”
- [Mombasa: Dispossession, Gentrification and Loss of Heritage ](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/03/20/mombasa-dispossession-gentrification-and-loss-of-heritage/) - As gentrification takes hold in Mombasa, many families are being dispossessed to make way for commercial or luxury projects. But the stakes are not just about land but about preserving the spirit of a city that has stood for centuries as a symbol of Swahili culture.
- [Congo Crisis Deepens: Reckless Decisions Fuel Escalating Violence and Humanitarian Disaster](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/03/18/congo-crisis-deepens-reckless-decisions-fuel-escalating-violence-and-humanitarian-disaster/) - The devastation of the Kivus is symbolic of the depths to which Africa has sunk, abandoned to Western imperial wealth-grabbing interests by an amoral and avaricious class.
- [Crude Capitalism: Connecting the Niger Delta, Palestine and the Global System of Exploitation](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/03/18/crude-capitalism-connecting-the-niger-delta-palestine-and-the-global-system-of-exploitation/) - In this review of Adam Hanieh’s recent book, Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market, Amina Adebisi Odofin draws out its connections to the Niger Delta, Palestine, and the global system of exploitation. The violence of extraction, Odofin argues, is not limited to oil fields or ecological degradation. The violence of extraction extends to the erasure of entire futures, including the future of life itself.
- [New Wine in Old Wineskins: US Imperialism Takes a Different Face](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/03/17/new-wine-in-old-wineskins-us-imperialism-takes-a-different-face/) - A US-backed infrastructure project in the DRC is framed as development, but history suggests it’s just another pipeline for foreign powers to profit from Congo’s riches.
- [Africa’s Geopolitical Recalibrations in a Multipolar World](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/03/12/africas-geopolitical-recalibrations-in-a-multipolar-world/) - African states and peoples, both on the continent and in the diaspora, have a historic responsibility—and an opportunity—to understand and navigate this moment strategically and smartly.
- [Souls on Fire: The Global Quest for Freedom and Dignity - Lecture by John-Allan Namu](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2025/03/10/souls-on-fire-the-global-quest-for-freedom-and-dignity-lecture-by-john-allan-namu/) - Watch a lecture by Kenyan investigative journalist and CEO of African Uncensored, John-Allan Namu, at the 5th ZAM Nelson Mandela lecture, held at the International Theatre in Amsterdam on February 16th, 2025. In this lecture, John-Allan Namu addresses Kenya's historical and colonial struggle for progressive change and situates the 2024 Gen Z mass protests as a critical generational moment in the fight for the soul of a nation.
- [Rhythm of the Valley](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2025/03/10/rhythm-of-the-valley/) - Zhang Wanshou, a Chinese laborer is lured by the false promise of wealth in ‘the land of Gold', in Durban, after which a train takes them onwards to Rand. His story and that of his fellow co-workers turns into a nightmare that reflects the tough mix of expectation and loss for those recruited to work in mines and plantations under exploitative and inhumane conditions.
- [Oma](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2025/03/03/oma/) - Three Gen Z ladies Huameitang, Oma, Hope, and Lanlan the kid, navigate what it means to be black, Chinese, and black Chinese, and the pigmented nuances that define their life, identity, and tested friendships in Nigeria.
- [Camels, Climate, and Capital: Subverting the Narrative of Pastoral Sustainability](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/03/03/camels-climate-and-capital-subverting-the-narrative-of-pastoral-sustainability/) - As pastoralist communities seek ways of adapting to climate change, camel rearing is taking precedence, with the sale of camel products providing sustainable livelihoods in regions facing recurrent drought.
- [The Generational Question in Kenya’s Evolving Protest](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2025/02/27/the-generation-question-in-kenyas-evolving-protest/) - The Kenyan society is yet to decide what the 2024 protests meant for the country, and its citizens, and where to situate it in a long history of agitation. The widespread offline and online dissent has taken on different dimensions across the generations. What is not in doubt is that the protests were about contesting the nature of the state, and the soul of the nation. In this episode, The Elephant's curator Joe Kobuthi and author Darius Okolla discuss what the continuing vocal and open dissatisfaction by the raia means.
- [Trump's Second Act: The Elites' Long Con Continues, with White America as the Mark](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/02/28/trumps-second-act-the-elites-long-con-continues-with-white-america-as-the-mark/) - Trump’s second coming is but a continuation of the long con-game that has been played on white Americans by their wealthy ruling elites.
- [The Malindi Case: A Peppercorn Sale and the Broken Dreams of Lamu Farmers ](https://www.theelephant.info/investigations/2025/02/26/the-malindi-case-a-peppercorn-sale-and-the-broken-dreams-of-lamu-farmers/) - The Malindi case illustrates the role played by nepotism, cronyism and corruption in the execution of development projects.
- [Trump’s Second Tenure and US-Africa Relations](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/02/25/trumps-second-tenure-and-us-africa-relations/) - As the dust settles on the presidential transition in the United States, what does President Trump’s second term augur for the African continent?
- [The Rise of Supercops and the Limits of Community Policing](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2025/02/24/the-rise-of-supercops-and-the-limits-of-community-policing/) - Maxwell Amunga delves into the Mathare Valley community north of Nairobi to take stock of the players, the pains, and the aftermath of a complex problem, laden with costly and desperate solutions that create even more problems than they solve.
- [The Chinese Shop](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2025/02/24/the-chinese-shop/) - Merika and her grandma Anna navigate life, work, and deferred dreams inside a white-controlled ranch in apartheid South Africa, while curious and conflicted about the future of race relations, with the rumoured arrival of a Chinese shop into their small town-centre nearby.
- [Bethwel Ogot: A Tribute to a Sage](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2025/02/21/bethwel-ogot-a-tribute-to-a-sage/) - Prof. Bethwell A. Ogot has now rested. He gave the world so much and asked nothing in return. He was a historian who became an archive of history.
- [A Tribute to Professor Bethwell A. Ogot](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2025/02/21/a-tribute-to-professor-bethwell-a-ogot/) - Thank you, Professor Ogot, for your scholarship, your mentorship, your unwavering belief in the power of history and scholarship to illuminate, liberate, and inspire.
- [Tom Mboya and Kenya’s Unfinished Business with Greatness](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/02/20/tom-mboya-and-kenyas-unfinished-business-with-greatness/) - The Too Early for Birds production connects Tom Mboya’s senseless death with the Gen Z protests, accentuating people’s yearning for a better Kenya.
- [Familiar Strangers](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2025/02/17/familiar-strangers/) - A chance yet awkward encounter between a Chinese contractor working on a road project in Nairobi, and a Kenyan lady gradually evolves into conversations around books, music, cultures, and curious exploration of each other's unique worlds.
- [Granny’s Gift of Lucky Bamboo Sprouts](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2025/02/03/grannys-gift-of-lucky-bamboo-sprouts/) - In the crowded city of Iarivo, Aunty Soasoa and her large family navigate the challenges of finding a home, ultimately forming a heartwarming bond with their Chinese landlord, Granny. Through mutual understanding and shared experiences, they cultivate a sense of belonging and resilience, symbolized by the growth of lucky bamboo in their new garden.
- [Re-Storying the Post-Election Violence](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/01/28/re-storying-the-post-election-violence/) - The Kenyan post-election violence story has been buried in a profound silence, the silence that Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor says is another of our national languages. But Gen-Zs are stepping out of that fold.
- [Tigray: Critical Health Services on the Brink of Collapse](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/02/13/tigray-critical-health-services-on-the-brink-of-collapse/) - The Family Guidance Association of Ethiopia Northern Area Office, a lifeline during the Tigray conflict, faces imminent closure.
- [While We Are Here](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2025/02/10/while-we-are-here/) - Housemates Chef Peng, interpreter Sun, accountant Zhou and a regular visitor Ms. Lin navigate love, belonging, community, and trust as they try to eke a living in Dar Es Salaam far away from their homeland in China. Through their shared experiences they gradually redefine what it means to find comfort in each other even as they pursue their individual dreams and desires.
- [Workers, Protests and Trade Unions in Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/02/11/workers-protests-and-trade-unions-in-africa/) - ROAPE’s Bettina Engels introduces Volume 51 Issue 182 of the journal, about labour organisation, working class struggles and popular protests.
- [Elon Musk and the Hypocrisy of the West](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/02/08/elon-musk-and-the-hypocrisy-of-the-west/) - Musk’s embrace of far-right politics and Zionism reveals the fractures in Western liberal democracy, where whiteness trumps equality and justice.
- [Uganda: Will the Buffalos of Poverty Knock the People Down?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/02/05/uganda-will-the-buffalos-of-poverty-knock-the-people-down/) - There was always a very real likelihood that the US would withdraw foreign aid. It has come to pass. President Donald Trump has decided to suspend all aid to Uganda.
- [So Long Rasna Warah](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2025/01/31/so-long-rasna-warah/) - Rasna was a Kenyan who wrote with the courage of a patriot and her pen had a mean hook.
- [Prenatal Testing, Neo-Eugenics and Foetal Rights in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/01/23/prenatal-testing-neo-eugenics-and-foetal-rights-in-kenya/) - There are emerging ethical and legal dilemmas brought about by the nexus between prenatal testing, neo-eugenics and abortion under the Kenyan constitution.
- [Anatomy of Censorship in the COVID-19 Era](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/01/29/anatomy-of-censorship-in-the-covid-19-era/) - COVID-19 propaganda was used to enhance censorship during the pandemic as Big Tech, Big Pharma and Big Government engaged in a coordinated, massive messaging blitz.
- [How to Loot an African Country: Will Unsustainable Debts Lead To State Capture in Uganda?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2018/03/15/how-to-loot-an-african-country-will-unsustainable-debts-lead-to-state-capture-in-uganda/) - Until the Ugandan Parliament recognises the capture of the state for what it is, and by whom, and becomes serious about scrutinising public debt, Uganda is going nowhere.
- [Rasna Warah: Courageous Patriot Who Spoke Truth to Power](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/01/27/rasna-warah-courageous-patriot-who-spoke-truth-to-power/) - What especially made Warah’s writings stand out was their sheer immediacy and her capacity to link them to the domestic struggles in Kenya.
- [The Words of Rasna Warah](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2025/01/20/the-words-of-rasna-warah/) - A tribute poem by Tony Mochama.
- [Empty Arms: The Story of Kenya’s Broken Maternal Health System](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2018/10/19/empty-arms-the-story-of-kenyas-broken-maternal-health-system/) - Do you know how many hospitals in Kenya can handle a birth emergency? How many health centers have incubators? Or even a theatre for a basic caesarian section birth?
- [Food Insecurity in the Land of a Thousand Hills: A Growing Challenge Amidst Agricultural Progress](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/01/22/food-insecurity-in-the-land-of-a-thousand-hills-a-growing-challenge-amidst-agricultural-progress/) - The Rwandan government must act urgently to improve food security in Rwanda where less than half of households are categorised as substantially food secure.
- [Dying for Justice: Who Killed Oscar Kingara and George Paul Oulu?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2019/08/08/dying-for-justice-who-killed-oscar-kingara-and-george-paul-oulu/) - Cases of extrajudicial killings by police and other state security agents are commonplace in Kenya, where such murders often do not lead to prosecution or justice for the victims. ISAAC OTIDI AMUKE revisits the case of two prominent human rights defenders who were killed in 2009 in broad daylight on a Nairobi street.
- [Renditioning Dissidents: Kenya’s Secret Service to Empire Goes Retail](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/01/17/renditioning-dissidents-kenyas-secret-service-to-empire-goes-retail/) - While Kenyan authorities deny their involvement in renditioning Ugandan opposition leader, Kizza Besigye, a blood-stained history of collaboration in Western-backed renditions speaks dubiously for itself.
- [A Tribute to My Friend Rasna Warah](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/01/15/a-tribute-to-my-friend-rasna-warah/) - A tribute to Rasna Warah.
- [Debt and Austerity: The IMF’s Legacy of Structural Violence in the Global South](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/01/16/debt-and-austerity-the-imfs-legacy-of-structural-violence-in-the-global-south/) - In light of the mass anti-austerity protests in Kenya and Argentina in 2024, Rea Maci offers a historical analysis of the neo-colonial relationship between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and these two countries. She exposes the cycle of debt, austerity, poverty, and governmental negligence imposed by this institution of Western imperialism on nations in the Global South. Maci decries IMF policies as a form of unforgiving structural violence inflicted on the most vulnerable populations. She calls for renewed global solidarity to dismantle the institutions that perpetuate colonial power structures and economic dependency.
- [Voices of Survival and Resistance: African Lives Under Neoliberalism](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/12/17/voices-of-survival-and-resistance-african-lives-under-neoliberalism/) - This blog post is the second of three pieces marking the publication of Working People Speak – Oral Histories of Neoliberal Africa. It features Alexander Freund’s compelling foreword, which introduces the wide range of oral histories explored in the book, including interviews with female farm workers in South Africa, tea makers in South Sudan, and a prominent trade union leader in Zimbabwe. The foreword highlights the diverse ways oral history sheds light on the economic hardships, inequalities, and the profound socio-political and cultural changes neoliberalism has imposed on millions of ordinary working people.
- [Citizens for Hire](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2025/01/15/citizens-for-hire/) - Kenya’s labor export model treats citizens as commodities, exploiting workers for remittances while neglecting domestic job creation.
- [Mothers Against Abductions Protest](https://www.theelephant.info/photos/2025/01/13/mothers-against-abductions-protest/) - On 6th January 2024, mothers and families of abducted individuals staged protests across major towns in Kenya.
- [#EndAbductionsNow Protests](https://www.theelephant.info/photos/2025/01/10/endabductionsnow-protests/) - The #EndAbductionsNow protests of Monday, 30th December 2024.
- [To Build Up or to Build Away? – Nairobi’s Housing Crisis](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/12/18/to-build-up-or-to-build-away-nairobis-housing-crisis/) - Should we focus on up-scaling the drainage and sewerage services for the high-rise developments in the areas close to the CBD or should we focus on developing residential areas outside the city?
- [The Rule of Law in Africa: A Reappraisal](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/12/20/the-rule-of-law-in-africa-a-reappraisal/) - Presentation and Reflections for the 2024 Academic Conference on Africa, “Power, Justice, and the People: Human Rights and the Rule of Law for Africa’s Transformation,” United Nations Office on the Special Advisor on Africa, United Nations Headquarters, New York, December 3-5, 2024.
- [Rethinking Academic Freedom in Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/12/19/rethinking-academic-freedom-in-africa/) - Presentation and intervention at the Academic Freedom in Africa Brainstorming Meeting organized by CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal, November 28-29, 2024.
- [Say Her Name: Kenya’s Femicide Protest](https://www.theelephant.info/photos/2024/12/16/say-her-name-kenyas-femicide-protest/) - The #EndFemicideKE protest of December 10th 2024.
- [Martha Karua: An Icon and a Great Exemplar of Political Leadership](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/11/20/martha-karua-an-icon-and-a-great-exemplar-of-political-leadership/) - Throughout her life in politics, Martha Karua is the rare Kenyan politician that has remained true to the people of Kenya, championing for justice and the rule of law.
- [Uneasy Neighbors: The Regional Impact of Ethiopia’s Expansionist Ambitions](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/12/02/uneasy-neighbors-the-regional-impact-of-ethiopias-expansionist-ambitions/) - Ethiopia is seeking greater access to the Red Sea, but in doing so, it is repeating past behaviours that have destabilised the region.
- [Maisha Namba: Third-Gen ID Excludes the Historically Marginalised ](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/12/05/maisha-namba-third-gen-id-excludes-the-historically-marginalised/) - The government must prioritise reforms to address the ongoing discrimination and marginalization of border populations and stateless communities regarding birth registration and the issuance of IDs.
- [The Adani Group and India’s Spheres of Influence](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/12/12/the-adani-group-and-indias-spheres-of-influence/) - Is the Adani Group Narendra Modi’s Trojan Horse in India’s efforts to counterbalance China’s expanding influence across the Indian Ocean and Africa​?
- [Geopolitical Rivalries in the Horn of Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/12/12/geopolitical-rivalries-in-the-horn-of-africa/) - Somalia’s Alliance with Egypt and Türkiye seeks to undermine the Ethiopia-Somaliland Memorandum of Understanding.
- [Biden's Visit to Angola: A Late Move for the Democratic Party in Africa?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/12/12/bidens-visit-to-angola-a-late-move-for-the-democratic-party-in-africa/) - The time for grandiose African strategies that are absolutely aspirational is over. What the US needs is a well thought-out long-term economic, infrastructural, and commercial plan, partnership, and strategy for Africa.
- [Gen Z, Riggy G, and the Kenyan Pornocracy](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/12/10/gen-z-riggy-g-and-the-kenyan-pornocracy/) - In a political landscape defined by opportunism, spectacle, and betrayal, Kenya’s youth-led protests offered a fleeting glimpse of change—only to be ensnared by the same system they sought to challenge.
- [The Life Cycle of Miraa in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/photos/2024/12/09/the-life-cycle-of-miraa-in-kenya/) - Our photographer Jimmy Kitiro captured the life cycle of miraa once it is loaded onto the pick-up trucks ready for transportation.
- [The Children of Tekayo](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2018/03/29/the-children-of-tekayo/) - We cope with the oppressive system of Capitalism by eating our children's futures before eating them alive. Grace Ogot captures us in her 1968 classic Tekayo, literally a story of cannibalism, metaphorically one of abuse of trust by a man in a position of authority. Authority of kinship where girls now live in fear of
- [VP Kamala Harris’ Africa Visit: Rethinking US-Africa Relations](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2023/04/13/vp-kamala-harris-africa-visit-rethinking-us-africa-relations/) - Vice President Kamala Harris’ recent visit to Ghana, Tanzania, and Zambia is a welcome step in the right direction in the US’s reengagement with Africa. However, the “more aid syndrome” is a disconcerting reminder of how the West has historically engaged with the continent.
- [Trump 2.0 and US-Africa Relations: Courting a Derided Continent](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/12/06/trump-2-0-and-us-africa-relations-courting-a-derided-continent/) - The precedents established by Donald Trump in his first tenure give little hope for change. If he pursues the same isolationist principles as before, he simultaneously risks estranging the continent and revving up the controversial diplomatic offers of China and Russia.
- [When the IMF and World Bank Visited My Father](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2024/12/03/when-the-imf-and-world-bank-visited-my-father/) - In memory of his father, who passed away earlier in October, Yusuf Serunkuma offers a heartfelt political reflection on his father’s unfulfilled dreams since Uganda’s independence in 1962. Recounting the story of his father’s dismissal from a textile factory in the early 1990s, he illustrates the devastating impact of the neoliberal austerity policies imposed by the World Bank and the IMF on the lives of ordinary Ugandans. These imperialist interventions dismantled the material progress and aspirations of the generation that won independence, and continue to suppress the hopes of both present and future generations.
- [Nightmare at Bamburi Farm](https://www.theelephant.info/investigations/2024/11/29/nightmare-at-bamburi-farm/) - According to locals, the private security officers from G4S, hired by Bamburi, sometimes surpass the GSU in cruelty. Six reports made to the police mention G4S dog bites.
- [Suspect in Kenya's Anglo Leasing Scandal Used Offshore Secrecy to Obscure Ties to Companies](https://www.theelephant.info/investigations/2024/11/28/suspect-in-kenyas-anglo-leasing-scandal-used-offshore-secrecy-to-obscure-ties-to-companies/) - Leaked documents from the Pandora Papers reveal that Sri Lankan-Irish businessman Anura Perera, named by the Kenyan Anti-Corruption Commission as a suspect in the Anglo Leasing procurement scandal, was the owner, director or signatory of at least six offshore firms implicated in the case. The documents also show that Perera and his family were beneficiaries of offshore trusts that moved millions around the time of the scandal.
- [The Nigerian People Must Own Their Resistance](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/11/27/the-nigerian-people-must-own-their-resistance/) - When rising against ruling-class corruption, Nigerians must reject the hero culture that has historically undermined genuine activism.
- [Unpacking the Illegal Investment of Housing Levy Funds in Treasury Bonds](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/11/25/unpacking-the-illegal-investment-of-housing-levy-funds-in-treasury-bonds/) - Constitutional and statutory provisions collectively support the argument that the investment of the Housing Levy Fund in Treasury Bills fundamentally contravenes the provisions of the Affordable Housing Act.
- [Poetry Is Dying and Poets Are an Endangered Species](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2019/07/04/poetry-is-dying-and-poets-are-an-endangered-species/) - Okot p’Bitek’s Song of Lawino and Song of Ochol faced numerous rejections from publishers before the collection was eventually published in 1966. The collection of ‘songs’ was a resounding artistic and commercial success. Yet, over 50 years since Okot’s encounter, poetry still appears at the bottom of the publishers' priority list.
- [Religion and the Tragedy of the Kenya Middle Class](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2023/02/17/religion-and-the-tragedy-of-the-kenya-middle-class/) - The Kenyans who are really blinded by religion are not the ordinary ones who are actively religious, but the educated ones who are against religion. It’s an intellectual entanglement so spectacular that would put the emotional entanglement of the Smiths to shame.
- [The Case for Reparations and Revisiting Colonial Atrocities](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2021/11/19/the-case-for-reparations-and-revisiting-colonial-atrocities/) - The mass atrocities of the 1899 French invasion of what is Niger today are finally being treated with the gravity and consequence they deserve in Western popular histories.
- [Book Review: Combatants: A Memoir of the Bush War and the Press in Uganda](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/11/18/book-review-combatants-a-memoir-of-the-bush-war-and-the-press-in-uganda/) - William Pike was a participating witness, fortunate or perhaps foresighted enough, to have secured a front-row seat at one of the most significant political events in Uganda and the region.
- [Mozambique: Protest Diary](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/11/23/mozambique-protest-diary/) - Estacio Valoi shares his experience on the protests in Mozambique in a ZAM interview from his hometown of Pemba in the north.
- [Is SADC Another Club of Despots?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/11/13/is-sadc-another-club-of-despots/) - With the confirmation of Emmerson Mnangagwa as SADC chairperson, the regional body might have become another club of tyrants who use its political and diplomatic shelter to hide from democratic accountability.
- [What’s in a Street Name?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/11/22/whats-in-a-street-name/) - Do the street names in Kenya’s cities still serve the purpose of memorialising those who have made significant contributions to our country?
- [Reclaiming Black Girl Magic Through African Spiritual Traditions](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2024/11/22/reclaiming-black-girl-magic-through-african-spiritual-traditions/) - As more black folks, particularly black women, in Africa are becoming more interested in exploring non-Christian faith systems, the need for more spaces providing information is becoming more imperative. A conversation with Mildred Owino, a seer and oracle.
- [Becoming a Doctor is Not a Calling: The Battle Scars of Internship](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2024/11/21/becoming-a-doctor-is-not-a-calling-the-battle-scars-of-internship/) - There is no sign of motivation, no money, no satisfaction derived from the work done. Just emptiness and a dark cloud hovering above.
- [Street Worship: The Pulse of Nairobi City](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2024/11/15/street-worship-the-pulse-of-nairobi-city/) - In this conversation, we delve into the vibrant phenomenon of street worship in Nairobi City. Righa explains how spontaneous praise and worship events are transforming urban spaces, fostering community, and engaging the youth.
- [The Role of Pastoralist Women Under the New Constitution](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2022/03/30/the-role-of-pastoralist-women-under-the-new-constitution/) - Socially, the pastoralists are patriarchally organized; men take most of the powers, and women are to be seen and not heard. That combined with the climatic shocks, where women are disproportionately affected, has made them incredibly vulnerable. However, economic empowerment through programs like Ushanga - an endeavour that was mostly undertaken by women, is improving their lot. The Elephant in conversation with Kulamo Bullo Ikimire, CEC - Tourism, Culture and Social Services in Marsabit County, Kenya.
- [Just Do It!](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2019/05/08/just-do-it-podcast/) - A podcast of Lorna Irungu-Macharia's article "Just Do It!" published on The Elephant.
- [Murder Is the Escalated and Final Act of Violence](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2019/05/15/murder-is-the-escalated-and-final-act-of-violence/) - A podcast on recent cases of violence against women, written by Aisha Ali.
- [Boobs and Booties: How Hypersexualised Images of Women Impact Society](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2019/10/10/boobs-and-booties-how-hypersexualised-images-of-women-impact-society/) - The backlash against the women’s movement has seen a rise in the hypersexualisation and infantilisation of women, especially in music videos, says RASNA WARAH. This has had a negative impact on how women view their own bodies.
- [When You Get Under Antony Blinken’s Skin](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/11/12/when-you-get-under-antony-blinkens-skin/) - On the deplatforming of 'African Stream.'
- [To Move Forward as a Country, We Must Take Policy-Making Seriously](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/11/11/to-move-forward-as-a-country-we-must-take-policy-making-seriously/) - Doing policy work is hard. It requires solid analysis, the inclusion of the voices of multiple stakeholders and a confident leadership.
- [Kenya’s Adani-Ketraco Deal: Lessons from South Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/11/07/kenyas-adani-ketraco-deal-lessons-from-south-africa/) - The campaign against the Karpowership project in South Africa offers several key insights into how environmental advocacy can influence large infrastructure projects such as the Ketraco one in Kenya.
- [Trump Wins Again in 2024, An Orgy Of Speculation Breaks Out](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/11/08/trump-wins-again-in-2024-an-orgy-of-speculation-breaks-out/) - As Trump wins the presidency for the second time, Democrats must do some introspection and recognise the party’s failures instead of indulging in blame games.
- [Kikuyus Will Wear Kaptula and Other Short(s) Stories](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2017/10/19/kikuyus-will-wear-kaptula-and-other-shorts-stories/) - On September 1, 2017, the day the Supreme Court of Kenya nullified the 8 August elections, I was riding in a city-bound minibus matatu on Nairobi’s Waiyaki Way. I sat in front with the driver. The passenger seated next to me must have received a text message on his mobile phone because he began howling
- [The Gathering Storm: Europe Readies Itself for Another War](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2024/11/08/the-gathering-storm-europe-readies-itself-for-another-war/) - After an eight-decade hiatus, Europe is again at war, and as with all European conflicts past, the invasion of Ukraine is about business; when capitalists want something, they find an excuse to start a war in order to get it.
- [Carbon Markets and the New Scramble for African Land](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/11/05/carbon-markets-and-the-new-scramble-for-african-land/) - Writing for ROAPE, Thelma Arko argues that while often presented as a solution to the climate emergency, the growth of carbon offset markets are fueling a new scramble for African land and perpetuating colonial-era exploitation. We must move beyond market-based solutions, Arko urges, to embrace strategies that centre on social equity, ecological integrity, and the rights of local communities.
- [The Kenyan Tax Revolt as Constitutional Awakening](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/10/29/the-kenyan-tax-revolt-as-constitutional-awakening/) - Fluid organisation and technological advances in mobilisation have lent “Zillennials” a democratic bent that presents an opportunity to bring about corrections with regard to the social contract, the political culture and leadership in their pursuit of a transformative awakening.
- [Who Is Running Northern Kenya? Causes of the Simmering ‘Resource Curse’ in Isiolo County](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2019/05/02/who-is-running-northern-kenya-causes-of-the-simmering-resource-curse-in-isiolo-county/) - As part of Isiolo County, the land in Biliqo-Bulesa is just a small proportion of the more than 60 per cent of the country where land adjudication has hardly started. So anyone with the financial muscle and the ability to command the backing of top political kingpins in the country can lay claim to vast tracts of land there and thereby disinherit communities, some of whom have inhabited the region since the 10th century.
- [Structural Adjustment, Revisionist History and Revelations from a Forgotten Past](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2018/11/02/structural-adjustment-revisionist-history-and-revelations-from-a-forgotten-past/) - Moi’s destruction of the Kenyan economy was not the dominant event in the global economy in the 1990s. Around the same time when ugali was turning yellow, the Russian economy was being gobbled up by a group of Russian robber barons.
- [Pregnant and Disabled: Women Grappling for Dignified Maternal Care](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/10/31/pregnant-and-disabled-women-grappling-for-dignified-maternal-care/) - Twelve out of every 100 Malawians aged five and older have a disability, according to Malawi’s 2018 Population and Housing Census. Although Malawi has several policies and an Act stipulating the need to respect disability rights, including in health service provision, pregnant women with disabilities face a myriad of challenges.
- [Significance of Hajj for Muslims](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/11/02/significance-of-hajj-for-muslims/) - Hajj is an important pillar of Islam and for Muslims the spiritual journey of a lifetime to the holy city of Makkah in Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad.
- [Ukraine: Either an End or a Beginning ](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/10/25/ukraine-either-an-end-or-a-beginning/) - … and if it is a beginning, then it will be The End.
- [Museum of Memory](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/10/31/museum-of-memory/) - An eye-opening documentary on African literary titan Wole Soyinka wants us to laud his “politics” without ever having Soyinka himself talk about them.
- [The Grief of a Revolution](https://www.theelephant.info/photos/2024/10/30/the-grief-of-a-revolution/) - The last few weeks have been marked by remembrances, memorials and days of grieving for those lost, injured during the protests from May to August. The pro-governance protesters have congregated, sung songs, lit candles, and called out the names of the departed in these memorials. Here is a look at the events commemorated in recent months in Kenya.
- [Public Perception of Kenya's Judicial Independence](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/10/24/public-perception-of-kenyas-judicial-independence/) - In recent years, the Kenyan judiciary has faced intensified scrutiny and criticism from political figures, reflecting a broader public distrust of the judiciary.
- [From Ethiopia to Kenya, Qeerroo Qarree and Gen Z, Same Struggle](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/10/23/from-ethiopia-to-kenya-qeerroo-qarree-and-gen-z-same-struggle/) - Both the Oromo Protest Movement in Oromia and the Gen Z movement in Kenya share defining factors. Both respond to a class dilemma and mobilise nationalism to articulate their demands and give language to their movements.
- [Writers for a New World](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/10/22/writers-for-a-new-world/) - The debacle around Ta-Nehisi Coates' latest book shows us that no matter a writer's individual acclaim, the liberal media establishment will never tolerate anything that fundamentally challenges its racist edifice.
- [UN Human Rights Council Cannot be Relied on to Uphold Human Rights](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/10/16/un-human-rights-council-cannot-be-relied-on-to-uphold-human-rights/) - If the US and Israel can unilaterally decide who lives or who dies in this world, and suffer no sanctions, then we are truly living in terrifying times.
- [Kenya’s Gen Z and the Art of Protest](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/10/18/kenyas-gen-z-and-the-art-of-protest/) - Kenyan creatives are using art to express and portray their deepening disillusionment with the political and economic state of the country.
- [The Mine Dumps of Silicon Valley](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/10/17/the-mine-dumps-of-silicon-valley/) - While it might be cathartic to compare Elon Musk’s tech firms to apartheid-era mines, the connection between ex-South Africans and American capitalism is complicated.
- [The Problem Is Systemic: Understanding the #OccupyParliament Movement in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/10/15/the-problem-is-systemic-understanding-the-occupyparliament-movement-in-kenya/) - Reflecting on the mass protests that recently shook Kenyan society from top to bottom, Joel Mukisa argues that we must go much further than a choiceless democracy to find answers. A systematic questioning of the underlining political and economic structures underpinning the choices on offer must be undertaken.
- [Leveraging Africa’s Olympic Success for Business and Brand Growth](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/10/11/leveraging-africas-olympic-success-for-business-and-brand-growth/) - For African nations, the success of their Olympians offers an opportunity not just to inspire a continent but to drive economic growth, launch global brands, and attract international investment.
- [Different Countries, Same Crossroads](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/10/09/different-countries-same-crossroads/) - Coupled with a military not inclined to political experiments, Kenya’s lengthy history of civic-based activism has helped the country a great deal.
- [Abolish this Colonial Relic Called the Boarding School](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/10/07/abolish-this-colonial-relic-called-the-boarding-school/) - Just because we have had boarding schools since the introduction of Western education is not a reason to keep them regardless of their negative impact on the lives of learners and the society at large.
- [Is the WHO Aiming to Become a Universal Ministry of Health? ](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/10/04/is-the-who-aiming-to-become-a-universal-ministry-of-health/) - Scholars, health practitioners and health freedom advocates around the world say that efforts to universalise public health through the draft Pandemic Agreement and amendments to the International Health Regulations are rife with the kind of opportunities that unchecked power affords.
- [Dismantling Green Colonialism: Stages of a Just Transition?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/10/04/dismantling-green-colonialism-stages-of-a-just-transition/) - Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region has received much critical acclaim since its publication with Pluto Press in October 2023. Here, while acknowledging the usefulness of such a volume in the current climate and highlighting several must-read chapters, Max Ajl sees a missed opportunity in how the book is framed by its co-editors, Hamza Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell. Missing a broader anti-imperialist politics, among other issues, Ajl argues that the edited collection loses its political edge and is unable to help address the problems it identifies.
- [The Appearance of Democracy](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/10/03/the-appearance-of-democracy/) - The protests against illegal mining in Ghana are revealing how the country's political class still fears an engaged citizenry.
- [Kenya's March for Integrity](https://www.theelephant.info/photos/2024/10/02/kenyas-march-for-integrity/) - The recent anti-corruption Integrity walk in Kenya served as a powerful reminder of the ongoing struggle for integrity and accountability, particularly in light of Chapter 6 of the Kenyan Constitution, which emphasises ethical leadership.
- [Harambee! Harambee Tena!](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/10/01/harambee-harambee-tena/) - The first ever fundraiser in Kenya took place in December 1928. It has been 96 years but we still say, Harambee!!!
- [Kenya’s Climate Agenda and the Question of National Sovereignty](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/09/27/kenyas-climate-agenda-and-the-question-of-national-sovereignty/) - While international collaboration and aid have offered crucial assistance, they have also prompted concerns regarding national sovereignty.
- [The Shirika Plan: In Search of Durable Futures for Refugees in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/09/26/the-shirika-plan-in-search-of-durable-futures-for-refugees-in-kenya/) - The Shirika Plan aims to achieve the socioeconomic integration of refugees into host communities by converting refugee camps into integrated settlements.
- [Incarcerating Kenya’s Religious Liberties ](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/09/25/incarcerating-kenyas-religious-liberties/) - Imposing the regulation of religious organisations as proposed by the Religious Organisations Bill 2024 will impinge on the freedom of worship and is not in the interest of religious liberties.
- [The Case for a SheforShe Campaign to Elect VP Harris](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/09/24/the-case-for-a-sheforshe-campaign-to-elect-vp-harris/) - Given this electoral system, it is crucial that VP Harris wins enough votes in key states—not the popular vote but from delegates in the electoral college. A SheforShe campaign must be mounted for these delegates if we do not want to see a repeat of 2016.
- [Katiba @ 14 Celebrations](https://www.theelephant.info/photos/2024/09/06/katiba-14-celebrations/) - Kenya's Katiba turned 14 on August 2024 and Kenyans of all walks of life gathered at various meeting places to commemorate, celebrate and reflect on the constitutional journey. Among those were feted at the event include Law Society of Kenya Chair Faith Odhiambo, former Chief Justice Willy Mutunga, and governance expert Bob Mkangi. Here is a look at the day in pictures.
- [Nairobi: A City in Which ‘Contempt for the Resident Is Everywhere Apparent’](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2018/07/12/nairobi-a-city-in-which-contempt-for-the-resident-is-everywhere-apparent/) - In its current state, the transport infrastructure in cities like Nairobi has proved to be an impediment to productivity as most workers spend more time commuting than engaging in productive activities.
- [Nairobi: A City of Content Creators](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2023/04/20/nairobi-a-city-of-content-creators/) - For many youthful content creators that the Elephant interacted with, creating content is a source of income.
- [Maandamano II](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2023/05/04/maandamano-ii/) - Nairobi witnessed a new wave of protests on Tuesday, 2nd May 2023.
- [The TotalShutDownKE in Pictures](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/02/05/the-totalshutdownke-in-pictures/) - The #TotalShutDownKE protest was organized on January 27th 2024. It resonated with a collective voice demanding an end to violence against women in Kenya. The streets echoed with the urgency of a call for change, urging society to confront the pervasive issue of #EndFemicideKE It was a united stand against the injustices that women face daily, a powerful moment to demand accountability and raise awareness about the urgent need for action.
- [What the Health? Doctors’ Strike Continues to Bite as Patients Suffer Slow Services](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/04/12/what-the-health-doctors-strike-continues-to-bite-as-patients-suffer-slow-services/) - Hundreds of hospital doctors joined a demonstration in the streets of the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Tuesday as a nationwide strike by medics neared its fourth week.
- [The People's General](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/04/23/the-peoples-general/) - The Chief of Defence Forces General Francis Ogolla died in a helicopter accident in North Rift on 18th of April 2024.
- [Mathare Valley's Flood Disaster](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/05/04/mathare-valleys-flood-disaster/) - Mathare valley is one of the hardest hit areas by the recent flooding that has also affected various parts of Nairobi. The heavy rainfall that started in late April has resulted in flash floods, landslides and strewn garbage.
- [Harambee Starlets Qualify for FIFA World Cup](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/06/21/harambee-starlets-qualify-for-fifa-world-cup/) - With the final whistle, pure joy erupted as the Junior Starlets secured their historic qualification for the U-17 World Cup, set to take place in the Dominican Republic later in October and November 2024.
- [Kenya's Anti-Finance Bill 2024 Protests](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/06/26/kenyas-anti-finance-bill-2024-protests/) - Kenya's protest entered its 10th day on Tuesday 26th June, as citizens went to the streets to oppose the Finance Bill 2024. What started as an opposition to the bill has morphed into a widespread dissatisfaction with the president and the conduct of his regime that has been in power since August 2022. At least 24 out of the 47 counties were hit by protests. Citizens have vowed to continue with the protests even as the president termed the move as treasonous. Here is the story as told through photos.
- [Kenya's Day of Protest](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/07/03/kenyas-day-of-protest/) - Demonstrations in Kenya have entered their second week and evolved away from the Finance Bill. Citizens are now calling for widespread reforms including but not limited to the resignation of President William Ruto. The battle continues in the inter-webs and the streets with no sign of abating.
- [Kenya Protests: #OccupyJKIA](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/07/25/kenya-protests-occupyjkia/) - Kenya's Gen Z protest has entered its second month with a raft of political demands still unmet. In the latest development the young Kenyans threatened to storm the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and disrupt air traffic. The regime reacted by controlling the flow of traffic and deploying special units to guard the facility. Meanwhile the crowd of demonstrators ended up in the streets of Nairobi 20 kilometers away catching the police by surprise.
- [Protests to Defend Press Freedoms](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/07/25/protests-to-defend-press-freedoms/) - Several journalists have been injured, and others arrested during the recent protests that have rocked Kenya since June 2024. On 24th July 2024, media practitioners took to the streets to demand safety, and professionalism from the police whose conduct has been a subject of raging debate.
- [The Mashujaa Wetu Memorial Protest](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/07/30/the-mashujaa-wetu-memorial-protest/) - Kenyans flocked the streets of Nairobi on 25th July 2024 to memorialize those who were killed during the recent Gen Z protests. The police dispersed the lawful assembly and arrested some of the family members of the victims.
- [The Nane-Nane Protest](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/08/09/the-nane-nane-protest/) - On August 8th, in Nairobi, Kenyans took to the streets to express their deep-seated frustrations with the current regime. What started as a peaceful demonstration quickly escalated into a series of tense confrontations between protestors and law enforcement. Citizens, driven by a collective demand for change and accountability, engaged in running battles with police, reflecting widespread discontent with governance. The situation deteriorated as clashes ensued, leading to a heavy police response aimed at dispersing the crowds. In total, 174 individuals were arrested, and many others sustained injuries as the confrontations unfolded across various locations in the city.
- [The Gen Sisi Concert](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/08/13/the-gen-sisi-concert/) - In commemoration of the international Youth Day, Kenyans organized the Gen Sisi concert at The Greenpark Terminus, marked by music, dance and speeches. According to one of the organizers, rapper Julius Owino aka Juliani, the entrance was free and the moment provided a platform to celebrate the youth of this country.
- [University Students Protest the New University Funding Model](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/09/04/university-students-protest-the-new-university-funding-model/) - The University of Nairobi was on Monday disrupted by a wave of student echoing in protest against the government's newly introduced University Funding Model. The students argued that the new model was discriminatory and punitive, particularly towards students from disadvantaged backgrounds. They claimed that the new system would limit access to higher education for many, as it would make it difficult for students from low-income families to afford tuition fees.
- [The Ngara Gas Explosion Incident](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/09/05/the-ngara-gas-explosion-incident/) - Ngara an estate close to Nairobi's Central Business District was engulfed in a fire after a gas leak accident on 1st September 2024. The residents and business premises lost property worth millions. The onlookers lamented that the response by the county fire department was slow and ineffective in stopping the fire. The affected families are now trying to rebuild their lives as the investigations into the incident continue.
- [A Race Beyond Boundaries](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/09/09/a-race-beyond-boundaries/) - A Race Beyond Boundaries The Nairobi City Marathon 2024 wasn't just a race; it was a celebration of the city's spirit. From the vibrant atmosphere to the determined runners, the event showcased Nairobi's passion for sports and its commitment to community development. As its popularity soars, the marathon continues to be a global running highlight. Our photographer was there to capture the action and bring you this inspiring photo essay.
- [Dandora People's Park](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/08/30/dandora-peoples-park/) - The Dandora area is home to thousands of Kenyans who live and ply their trade within the vicinity. Dandora People’s Park is within a walking distance from the infamous Dandora dumpsite in North-east of Nairobi. The park lies along the banks of Nairobi River and runs right up to the bridge that crosses from Dandora to Korogocho estates, and plays a crucial role in the life of the community. Surprisingly, it was rehabilitated by former gangsters under the Komb Green Solutions, led by Mr. Fredrick Okinda. Our photojournalist Jimmy Kitiro captured a day in the life of the park.
- [Life Along the Kenyan Coast](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/09/18/life-along-the-kenyan-coast/) - The Kenyan Coast is a tapestry of foods, cultures, songs, dance and scenic seascapes. Our photojournalist Jimmy Kitiro took a walk through the southern end of the coast to capture the nuances and nitty-gritties of life along the coastal strip.
- [The Dangers of White Totalitarianism](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/09/20/the-dangers-of-white-totalitarianism/) - Why is the US ultra-right turning to Rhodesia as their model for a white supremacist state?
- [The Wave](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2024/09/20/the-wave/) - The latest war in the cycle of violence began even before the creation of Israel, the tectonic event that began the wave leading to the outcome at Re’im.
- [Andreas Esheté (1945-2024): A Tribute](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/09/19/andreas-eshete-1945-2024-a-tribute/) - Andreas’s immortality lies in the countless lives he touched, the minds he shaped and the ideals he championed.
- [Kenyan Students in Russia: Scholarships or Geopolitical Strategy? ](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/09/18/kenyan-students-in-russia-scholarships-or-geopolitical-strategy/) - As Kenya seeks to reap the economic and diplomatic benefits of collaborating with Russia on the education of its citizens, the country needs to proceed with caution and consider the potential influences on its foreign policy.
- [Nairobi – A City Modelled Using the Second Law of Thermodynamics](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/09/13/nairobi-a-city-modelled-using-the-second-law-of-thermodynamics/) - When Stephen Hawkin’s Big Crunch comes, those who will be living in Nairobi will once again experience an orderly and clean city.
- [Why We Vote When We Vote](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/09/12/why-we-vote-when-we-vote/) - The selection of election days is a multifaceted issue that reflects each country’s unique journey through history, culture, and governance.
- [Was the Wako Constitutional Amendment Bill of 1992 a Red Herring?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/09/04/was-the-wako-constitutional-amendment-bill-of-1992-a-red-herring/) - Before the Wako Draft Constitution of 2005, there was the Wako Constitutional Amendment Bill of 1992 that seemed to promise the opening up of the political space.
- [Dr Ruto & Mr Macron: From ‘Gilets Jaunes’ to ‘Gen Z’, a Common Struggle](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/09/03/dr-ruto-mr-macron-french-gilets-jaunes-kenyan-gen-z-a-common-struggle/) - The parallels between France and Kenya, and between Emmanuel Macron and William Ruto, lead us to question what fundamental trends brought both countries to experience quite similar crises, to which both leaders responded in a similar way.
- [A Review of Kenya’s Governance Landscape](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2024/09/03/a-review-of-kenyas-governance-landscape/) - The recent protests have brought Kenya’s governance trajectory into sharp focus. As the dust settles, many questions are begging for answers. In this episode, Wanjiru Gikonyo breaks down how the personal is political and the political is personal. She takes us through political participation, Bills in parliament, the debt crisis, and the possible futures in light of the current governance gains and losses.
- [Rights of Persons with Disabilities are Human Rights Too](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2024/08/31/rights-of-persons-with-disability-are-human-rights-too/) - The 2010 constitution turns 14 years today and has been observed in breach more than in observance. Key among these is the implementation of the rights of people with disabilities. In this conversation between The Elephant's Joe Kobuthi and Helen Mudora explore the nexus between the PWD statutes and the bill of rights.
- [Teargassing a Baddie](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2024/08/30/teargassing-a-baddie/) - The log had fallen from my eye. It was time to come from behind the screen and take action.
- [Reflections on Narratives and the Construction of Violence ](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/08/29/reflections-on-narratives-and-the-construction-of-violence/) - Every conflict has a story to be understood. There is violence in response to stories, or violence in response to violence born of stories, originally told by people long dead, for purposes long forgotten.
- [Devolution and Social Justice: Another World Is Not Only Possible, She’s on Her Way](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2017/04/14/devolution-and-social-justice-another-world-is-not-only-possible-shes-on-her-way/) - Nairobi, Kenya - AN END TO THE POLITICS OF DIVISION On August 27, 2010, Kenya promulgated a progressive Constitution whose vision is social democracy. It’s a vision of the promotion and protection of the whole gamut of human rights; the equitable distribution of political power and the resources of society; and the creation of a nation out of
- [Kenya: Institutionalised Theft and the High Cost of ‘Budgeted Corruption’](https://www.theelephant.info/investigations/2021/08/13/kenya-institutionalised-theft-and-the-high-cost-of-budgeted-corruption/) - Leaked data exposes loopholes in Kenya’s procurement process, enabling graft.
- [8-4-4 and Its Aftermath: Is the New CBC System a Solution to Kenya’s Education Crisis?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2018/04/26/8-4-4-and-its-aftermath-is-the-new-cbc-system-a-solution-to-kenyas-education-crisis/) - Let us hope that like the much-maligned 8-4-4 system, CBC will not be replaced with yet another system because it did not produce the desired results.
- [Constitutionalism for Convenience: How Kenyan Presidents Have Subverted the Supreme Law](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2017/11/23/constitutionalism-for-convenience-how-kenyan-presidents-have-subverted-the-supreme-law/) - During a transition into a new presidential tenure such as Kenya is going through at this point in 2017, it is expected that people – certainly government and governance scholars – will review the outgoing tenure so as to highlight the needs of the incoming tenure. If such reviews become a habit, then the next
- [Robert Wangila’s Burial Case: A Feud that Rivetted the Nation](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/08/28/robert-wangilas-burial-case-a-feud-that-rivetted-the-nation/) - I covered the Robert Wangila burial case over four months in 1994; this is what it was like.
- [Katiba 2010 and the Power of “We the People”: A New Account From Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2021/05/28/katiba-2010-and-the-power-of-we-the-people-a-new-account-from-kenya/) - If South Africa has exported the notion of “transformative constitutionalism 1.0” in the 1990s to the field of comparative constitutionalism, Kenya has provided “transformative constitutionalism 2.0.” that could expand the theory and practice of transformative constitutionalism in the years to come.
- [Links and Continuities in the Struggle for Social Transformation](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/08/23/links-and-continuities-in-the-struggle-for-social-transformation/) - The Gen Z movement seems to recognise the links and continuities of the struggles of the past and is on the path to consolidating the gains made while removing the weaknesses that have in the past overlooked the politics of division and betrayal.
- [Delulu is no Longer the Solulu: Political Education Is Way to Go](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/08/26/delulu-is-no-longer-the-solulu-political-education-is-way-to-go/) - Political education is playing a significant role in creating a Gen Z citizenry that is effective, responsible, and informed.
- [Somalia: Türkiye Drone Strikes and Rising Civilian Casualties](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/08/20/somalia-turkiye-drone-strikes-and-rising-civilian-casualties/) - Türkiye routinely carries out drone strikes in Somalia but it has yet to implement a comprehensive system to address the collateral damage resulting from its military support in Somalia.
- [Mutakha Kangu: The Nuts and Bolts of Constitutional Oversight - Part I](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2024/08/22/mutakha-kangu-the-nuts-and-bolts-of-constitutional-oversight-part-i/) - To mark the 14th anniversary of the promulgation of Kenya’s new constitution, we speak to Dr John Mutakha Kangu, a constitutional law expert. As a key person involved in the constitution-making nitty gritty, he walks us through the journey from the clamour to the actual realization and what has happened since Kenyans voted for the new constitution.
- [Set up to Fail? Police Reforms in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2017/06/01/set-up-to-fail-police-reforms-in-kenya/) - For over a decade now, Kenyans have been listening to talk about police reforms. And though it may be true that police now have more fancy crowd control equipment than they did 10 years ago, and more cars, a forensic lab, health care insurance, armed vehicles, and some extra housing, this has yet to translate
- [Decolonising Conservation: It Is About the Land, Stupid!](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2019/06/27/decolonising-conservation-it-is-about-the-land-stupid/) - The perpetual colonial project has miseducated us that conservation is about wildlife, while it is actually about our land, our heritage, our culture, our languages, our beliefs…it is about US.
- [Returning the Gaze: Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Post-colonial World](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2018/05/04/returning-the-gaze-representing-poverty-and-precarity-in-a-post-colonial-world/) - This essay is adapted from a speech by the author at the Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien / Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS) Annual Conference on the theme, ‘Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World’, held from May 25 – 27, 2017 – at the University of Bonn, Germany.
- [Resisting the New Green Colonialism](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/08/22/resisting-the-new-green-colonialism/) - A proposed green hydrogen project in Tunisia prioritizes European energy needs over local sovereignty.
- [Gen X Vs Gen Z Protests: A Fireside Chat](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2024/08/19/gen-x-vs-gen-z-protests-a-fireside-chat/) - This podcast features psychologist and wellness coach Salima Macharia as we explore the unique characteristics of each generation’s protest movements. We shed light on the evolving landscape of social change. What did Gen X do right and what could they have done better during protests? What about Gen Zs? Listen In.
- [The Nuts and Bolts of Constitutional Oversight](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2024/08/17/the-nuts-and-bolts-of-constitutional-oversight/) - To mark the 14th anniversary of the promulgation of Kenya’s new constitution, we speak to Dr John Mutakha Kangu, a constitutional law expert. As a key person involved in the constitution-making nitty gritty, he walks us through the journey from the clamour to the actual realization and what has happened since Kenyans voted for the new constitution.
- [The Kenyan Mirror](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/08/16/the-kenyan-mirror/) - In Nigeria, as in Kenya, the debt burden and insensitive government policies have pushed citizens to the edge. The government would do well to act before Nigeria descends into anarchy.
- [Nairobi’s Disastrous Flood Response](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/08/14/nairobis-disastrous-flood-response/) - Days before mass protests broke out across Kenya, the national government enacted a mass, unjustified forced removal campaign across Nairobi.
- [Revolutionary Baddie in My Soft Girl Era](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2024/08/15/revolutionary-baddie-in-my-soft-girl-era/) - Driven to the streets in protest, fear and anger coursing through our veins, we dream of a country where we would be less afraid.
- [The Evolving Attitudes on the Constitution](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2021/01/16/the-evolving-attitudes-on-the-constitution/) - The current calls for a referendum have been proven anomalous to the journey of constitution-making that has been on in the last 20 years. The players, the interests and the motive of enacting such sovereign and sacred documents always ought to be reflective of a society's needs and as eminent lawyer Atsango Chesoni reiterates such decisions require careful deliberations.
- [Memo to Upper Deck People: Fight for the 2010 Constitution or Perish](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/02/05/memo-to-upper-deck-people-support-the-constitution-or-perish/) - The Kenyan middle classes cannot anymore claim to sit on the fence. We are either for the current unacceptable and unsustainable status quo or we are the vanguard of transformative change.
- [I Am Now Officially a Taita: How the 2019 Census Made Me Lose My Identity](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/09/02/i-am-now-officially-a-taita-how-the-2019-census-made-me-lose-my-identity/) - Was the 2019 census conducted on behalf of certain commercial/political interests as a tool that could be used for marketing goods or to determine a household’s credit-worthiness?
- [Cyberbullying: The Digital Pandemic](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2020/08/14/cyberbullying-the-digital-pandemic/) - Global emerging trends suggest that cyberbullying is now recognised as a serious threat not just to the physical health of people, but also to their emotional well-being. Social network spheres in Kenya and around the world have become the new frontiers for not just gender-based and sexual violence, but also for the expression of toxic, patriarchal and violent masculinities.
- [Body Shaming in Prophet Owuor’s Misogynistic Ministry](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2019/11/21/body-shaming-in-prophet-owuors-misogynistic-ministry/) - The policing and the objectification of women’s bodies must be understood within the context of not just a patriarchal Kenyan society, but also within a particular masculine brand of Christianity in which “Men of God” continue to perpetuate and espouse behaviour and theologies that are disadvantageous to girls and women.
- [The Sea That Eats Our Children](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/01/09/the-sea-that-eats-our-children/) - The Mediterranean Sea is only 2,400 miles across, or about half the length of continental Africa, but in the 2010s it earned distinction as the largest mass burial site for Africans in the modern world.
- [Tales of State Capture: Goldenberg, Anglo Leasing, and Eurobond](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2019/09/05/tales-of-state-capture-goldenberg-anglo-leasing-and-eurobond/) - WACHIRA MAINA examines three major corruption scandals during the Moi, Kibaki and Kenyatta eras that demonstrate how state capture facilitates the massive looting of public funds, and allows the culprits to get away scot-free.
- [Blood Remembers](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2024/08/12/blood-remembers/) - Throughout history, young protesters have stood up against the status quo to bring about change. Generation Z has arisen, offering a priceless sacrifice to free Kenya from a malevolent system of governance.
- [Kenya: Towards a New Social Contract](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/04/30/kenya-towards-a-new-social-contract/) - Equity is at the heart of the revenue-sharing formula and no one region should benefit at the expense of the other. Kenya as a country will collectively benefit if all regions benefit.
- [Lords of the Ashes: The World Is Broken, We Must Fix It](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/08/06/lords-of-the-ashes-the-world-is-broken-we-must-fix-it/) - From the United States to Europe and India, far-right leaders are paving the path to a dystopian future led by authoritarian regimes. In Kenya, the ruling elite is deintellectualising and deindustrialising the country in order to have more power and control over a confused and demoralised population. Which way out?
- [Ruto the Flying Mantis Has Been Grounded](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/08/02/ruto-the-flying-mantis-has-been-grounded/) - President William Ruto’s wings have been clipped and we are watching over him carefully, monitoring all his movements. Until he surrenders.
- [The Kenyan Court of Appeal’s BBI Judgment: Thirsting for Sunlight](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/09/03/the-kenyan-court-of-appeals-bbi-judgment-thirsting-for-sunlight/) - At its heart, the BBI Judgment is about power, and the judges in the majority believe that the constitution acts as a barrier against the concentration of power, and as a channel for its dispersal.
- [Defending the Mwananchi Constitution in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2021/08/30/defending-the-mwananchi-constitution-in-kenya/) - It is now 11 years since we voted in the current Constitution. Its implementation has been a case of hits and misses. Now a new wind of political disquiet is driving the call for a referendum. Is it too soon to try and change a document we have barely implemented? A conversation between The Elephant and Mutemi Wa Kiama.
- [An African-American Perspective on the Fire in Nairobi](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2024/08/08/an-african-american-perspective-on-the-fire-in-nairobi/) - Black people everywhere are one and the same. And until we carry this in our hearts, history for us will always be someone else's story.
- [Israeli Gas, Kenyan Tears: Investigating Israel-Supplied Riot Control Agents Used in the Kenya Demonstrations](https://www.theelephant.info/investigations/2024/08/08/israeli-gas-kenyan-tears-investigating-israel-supplied-riot-control-agents-used-in-the-kenya-demonstrations/) - Israel’s engagement with African nations is evolving, but perhaps not in the expected direction. While recent years have seen Israel exporting advanced surveillance technologies to countries across the continent, there’s a parallel trend of supplying traditional crowd control equipment such as tear gas canisters.
- [The Keyboard Warriors are Winning](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/08/07/the-keyboard-warriors-are-winning/) - Digital activism is playing a significant role in amplifying the impact of the #RejectFinanceBill2024 and #RutoMustGo protests, but how effective can it ultimately be?
- [Fatal Faith: A Survivor’s Testimony and A Search For Closure in Shakahola](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2024/08/05/fatal-faith-a-survivors-testimony-and-a-search-for-closure-in-shakahola/) - More than a year after the first bodies were exhumed from Shakahola Forest, #FatalFaith follows a survivor of Pastor Paul Mackenzie's cult and a grieving father who lost his children to the church, which led over 400 followers to their deaths in a tragic quest to 'meet Jesus.' In this documentary, we explore the cost of this faith and manipulation, and the slow progress of justice for the victims and their loved ones.
- [The Evolution of Protests in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2024/08/01/the-evolution-of-protests-in-kenya/) - Kenyans have always exercised their rights to protest as enshrined in the Constitution. The safety, dynamics, respect for rule of law between the protesters and the police and the state has undergone significant changes. Wambua Kawive breaks down what is similar vs what has changed in the nature of protests in Kenya.
- [Climate Crisis or Climate Imperialism?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/08/01/climate-crisis-or-climate-imperialism/) - The United Nations has intensely popularised the “climate crisis” but critics hold that the “green” ideology is designed to keep low and middle income countries under the yoke of perpetual poverty.
- [Who Belongs to the Streets? Gen Zii!](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2024/06/21/who-belongs-to-the-streets-gen-zii/) - I say this without fear: After 61 years of plunder, there is need for us to take the presidency of this country away from the KANU folk.
- [Kenya: An Agenda for Social Transformation ](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/07/29/kenya-an-agenda-for-social-transformation/) - Reflections on the philosophical underpinnings of social accountability in Kenya.
- [Making Sense of The Gen Z Revolution](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/07/31/making-sense-of-the-gen-z-revolution/) - The crux of the struggle lies in reclaiming the soul of Kenya from a generation that became malevolent during public duty.
- [The Rise of Kenya's Clueless Political Elite](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/07/30/the-rise-of-kenyas-clueless-political-elite/) - In this the first of a two-part series, Wandia Njoya traces how Kenyan politics deteriorated to the level of the grotesque, where grandeur, obscene wealth, crass contempt and spectacular violence against citizens have been normalized as the political culture of Kenya.
- [Africa, Multipolarity, and the Collapsing White World Order](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/07/25/africa-multipolarity-and-the-collapsing-white-world-order/) - This article by Navid Farnia delves into the ongoing struggle for national liberation on the African continent in the context of deepening relations with China and the challenges posed to the western-dominated world order by multipolarity.
- [Why We’re Angry: Youth Revolt and Lessons for the Media](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/07/26/why-were-angry-youth-revolt-and-lessons-for-the-media/) - To ignore the interests of Millennials and Gen Zs, who constitute up to 55.47 per cent of the Kenyan population, is to play with fire; the mainstream media cannot afford to take that route.
- [The Psychology of Misconduct in the Kenyan Police ](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/07/03/the-psychology-of-misconduct-in-the-kenyan-police/) - Kenya’s policing culture is a colonial legacy that focuses on suppression rather than community engagement.
- [The Contraction of African Politics](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/07/12/the-contraction-of-african-politics/) - As in Europe or the US, in which the centre-right and the centre-left seem to agree on almost everything, Africa too has birthed and bred its own extreme centre, stifling politics and causing increased voter apathy.
- [Hatuwezi Ishi Hivi](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/07/04/hatuwezi-ishi-hivi/) - Police brutality during the #RejectFinanceBill protests has shown us that while politicians can afford to sit back and wait for the 2027 general election, we the citizens of Kenya do not have that luxury.
- [Bottom-up Moral Authority and Communicative Power](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/07/18/bottom-up-moral-authority-and-communicative-power/) - The success in achieving the #RejectFinanceBill 2024 was grounded in the moral authority and the communicative power of the protesters who have upended the top-down status quo and created their own seat at the table of political power.
- [Fear and Loathing in the Eternal Sunshine of Kenya’s Elite Pacts](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/04/28/fear-and-loathing-in-the-eternal-sunshine-of-kenyas-elite-pacts/) - The uthamaki code, the sense of Kikuyu elite entitlement, has defined Kenya’s politics for 55 years, a history of assassinations, blood oaths and cloak-and-dagger games. Since 1967, the Kalenjin elite have been the other protagonist in this power arrangement, offering land in exchange for a seat at the high table, and taking hostage the Kikuyu diaspora in the Rift Valley in this matrix of fear. How to break the cycle and liberate Kenya? By DAVID NDII
- [BBI Has Distorted Our Democracy](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/12/04/bbi-has-distorted-our-democracy/) - Proponents of the Building Bridges Initiative say that it will bring about equity and national unity. This might all be well and true. But it is what they are not saying that is most worrying.
- [Dear Kenya, Push Forward, or Perish](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/07/23/dear-kenya-push-forward-or-perish/) - The white elephant is not dancing, it is losing its mind.
- [Journaling A Revolution](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/07/07/elephant-series-journaling-a-revolution/) - In the face of the Gen Z revolution, we reached out to our storytellers and editors to reflect on the times. The following is a journal bearing witness and foretelling the effects of the unfolding political moment seen through Kenyan eyes.
- [Kenya Kwanza Administration: All Hubris and Delulu](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/07/22/kenya-kwanza-administration-all-hubris-and-delulu/) - Faced with the revolt of a youth driven to action by his government’s economic excesses, President William Ruto’s administration has responded with contempt, disdain, mockery and deadly violence.
- [Inatuhusu: We Belong in the Streets](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2024/07/20/inatuhusu-we-belong-in-the-streets/)
- [Whom the Gods Want to Destroy, They First Make Mad](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/07/19/whom-the-gods-want-to-destroy-they-first-make-mad/) - As he loses his grip on power, Kenya’s president is losing the plot.
- [Northern Kenya, Identity and Citizenship](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2022/03/08/northern-kenya-identity-and-citizenship/) - Pre-independence, Kenya's Northern Frontier Districts fought to be part of Somalia during Shifta War or Gaf Daba (1963–1967). While newly independent Kenya won against the "Shifta," this experience inaugurated the securitization of the relationship between the Kenyan authorities, the region, and the people. As a result, the region experienced a series of massacres- the Wagala (1984), Bagala (1998), and Malka Mari (1982). The advent of the war on terror saw the community collectively labeled as terrorists. As a result of such labeling, accessing state services, including the National Identity Card, passports, etc, has become difficult for people from the region.
- [Kenya’s Third Liberation Movement](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/07/16/kenyas-third-liberation-movement/) - It's no longer just about the finance bill. Kenyans want fundamental change.
- [Structural Adjustment from Below](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/07/16/structural-adjustment-from-below/) - Africans must bear in mind that the first country to repudiate odious debt (that used for regime preservation rather than development) was the United States of America when it was freeing itself from its colonial shackles.
- [Smartphones and Dance-Moves: How the Anti-people Legislation in Kenya Was Beaten by the People](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/07/15/smartphones-and-dance-moves-how-the-anti-people-legislation-in-kenya-was-beaten-by-the-people/) - Angela Chukunzira writes about a protest movement in Kenya that has changed the country. The current regime has constantly bowed to western imperialism and the Finance Bill was an effort to offset Kenya’s debt to the Bretton Woods Institutions by imposing heavy taxation and economic hardships on the poor. Armed with smartphones and dance moves, Gen-Z took to the streets to redefine Kenyan protest culture.
- [Greed vs Green](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2024/07/15/greed-vs-green/) - Ngong Forest in Kajiado has a unique role in Nairobi and Kenya’s ecology but has shrunk dramatically due to decades of encroachment, resulting in significant loss of forest cover and biodiversity. The communities around the forest have experienced more frequent floods and droughts, impacting livelihoods and affecting livestock. #GreedVsGreen delves into the causes and impacts of this encroachment, the people behind it, and what it means for the future of Ngong Forest.
- [Fact-Checking the Kenyan Protests](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2024/07/13/fact-checking-the-kenyan-protests/) - Join us in this compelling episode as we delve into the intricacies of Kenya's recent Finance Bill protests, exploring the pivotal role of fact-checking journalism. Our esteemed guest, Linda Ngari, an award-winning freelance journalist and fact-checker, illuminates the critical intersections of information integrity and public dissent, unraveling the complex narratives that shape our understanding of contemporary socio-political dynamics. Tune in for an enlightening discussion on truth, accountability, and the power of informed journalism.
- [On This Father's Day](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2024/06/15/on-this-fathers-day/) - How was your relationship with your dad and how has fatherhood shaped you? On this Father's Day, we honour grandfathers, foster dads, adoptive dads, stepdads, Godfathers, Father figures, and all the men who uphold paternal bonds. Happy Father's Day.
- [Days and Democracy: What Lies Behind Global Variations in Elections?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/07/11/days-and-democracy-what-lies-behind-global-variations-in-elections/) - The scheduling of election days and dates plays a significant role in shaping and influencing voter turnout rates.
- [Citizenship Rights: The Quest for Identification](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/07/10/citizenship-rights-the-quest-for-identification/) - For certain communities in Kenya, citizenship is presented as an issue of ineligibility, and as a matter of national security rather than rights.
- [Ngorongoro Evictions a Bad Idea: People and Nature Can Coexist](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/06/11/ngorongoro-evictions-a-bad-idea-people-and-nature-can-coexist/) - A solution to the Ngorongoro conflict lies in finding consensus through inclusive dialogue.
- [Mental Health in Kenyan Women Activists](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/06/11/mental-health-in-kenyan-women-activists/) - In the first of a three-part series on mental health and activism in Kenya, Noosim Naimasiah writes about the pandemic of mental health breakdown in Kenya. She notes how activists respond increasingly to distress calls, extrajudicial executions, sexual abuse, fatal domestic violence, and suicides are interspersed by the chronic conditions of violence in the informal settlements of Nairobi. Naimasiah writes how communities once connected by values of respect, dignity and love have been left to the cold machinations of a brutal system registering only exchange value.
- [Re-Reading History Without the Color Line: When Egypt Was Black](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/06/10/re-reading-history-without-the-color-line-when-egypt-was-black/) - Pharaonism, a mode of national identification linking people living Egyptians today with ancient pharaohs, emerged partly as an alternative to colonial British efforts to racialize Egyptians as people of color.
- [Chakula Mashinani](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/06/17/chakula-mashinani/) - Chakula Mashinani turns the gaze of our complex national culinary adaptation away from the cities and the urban, mostly educated elite, to the rural life and community.
- [Democratization, Welfarism and African Underdevelopment](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/06/20/democratization-welfarism-and-african-underdevelopment/) - The spread of democracy and the application of economic policies championed by Western and foreign powers has not led to economic and political development that benefits Africans en masse. Can African philosophy and thought that is independent of foreign guidance contribute to the development of African states?
- [The Iron Grip of the International Monetary System: CFA Franc, Hyper-Imperial Economies and the Democratization of Money](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/06/24/the-iron-grip-of-the-international-monetary-system-cfa-franc-hyper-imperial-economies-and-the-democratization-of-money/) - Cameroonian economist Joseph Tchundjang Pouemi died in 1984, either poisoned or by suicide. His ideas about the international monetary system and the CFA franc are worth revisiting.
- [WHO Neutrality in a Time of Crisis at Home: The Case of Dr Ghebreyesus](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/07/01/who-neutrality-in-a-time-of-crisis-at-home-the-case-of-dr-ghebreyesus/) - The UN and its highest officials must not choose inaction under the pretext of observing neutrality especially where genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, weaponised rape, and starvation are taking place.
- [The Axis-of-Evil Coalition in the Horn of Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/07/01/the-axis-of-evil-coalition-in-the-horn-of-africa/) - The “Tripartite Agreement” signed between Ahmed Abiy of Ethiopia, Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo of Somalia, and Isaias Afwerki of Eritrea is a “Trojan Horse” deal that could eventually destabilise the entire Horn of Africa region.
- [How Twitter's Negligence is Harming Kenya's Democracy](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/07/01/how-twitters-negligence-is-harming-kenyas-democracy/) - Twitter’s trending algorithm has been abandoned to disinformation campaigns and attacks, failing Kenyans as political actors use it to control political narratives by harassing dissenting voices.
- [Where is Exiled Former Rwandan Journalist Cassien Ntamuhanga?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/07/02/where-is-exiled-former-rwandan-journalist-cassien-ntamuhanga/) - In spite of the official denial of involvement, the arrest and disappearance of Cassien Ntamuhanga is proof that the assassination of President Juvenal Habyarimana and the Rwanda genocide that followed is, tragically, still claiming new casualties.
- [Kisumu County’s Fragile Food Security](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/07/02/kisumu-countys-fragile-food-security/) - Reliance on imports from as far away as Tanzania, Uganda and even China, leaves Kisumu County’s accessibility to food on a fragile footing.
- [The Kenyan Techpreneur and Ecosystem, Who Does It Benefit?](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2022/07/06/the-kenyan-techpreneur-and-ecosystem-who-does-it-benefit/) - The Kenyan technology ecosystem is growing rapidly, countless new startups emerge and multinationals keep pouring in. What is the history of this space? Where did it come from and who benefits from the system today? In other words, who is overlooked and what needs to change? Angela Okune & Leo Mutuku bring their experiences as tech entrepreneurs, researchers as well as founding members of the Ihub to a paper they recently wrote entitled: Becoming an African Techpreneur: geopolitics of investments in "local" Kenyan entrepreneurship. Here is their great paper: https://zenodo.org/record/6582284 and folks can reach Angela on Twitter @honoluluskye or through angelaokune.me; and Leo @leomutuku or through https://www.leonida.me/ Instagram: thedevelopmentdilemma; Twitter: @dev_dilemma; Music credits: Juliani, 'Kama sa Sisi'
- [Black Lives Matter. Patrick Lyoya’s Life Mattered](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/07/08/black-lives-matter-patrick-lyoyas-life-mattered/) - The harrowing execution of Patrick Lyoya, a Congolese refugee in Michigan, and the unfulfilled promise of resettlement in America.
- [Insiders View of the International Development Sector - Part II](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2022/10/07/insiders-view-of-the-international-development-sector-part-ii/) - Two University of Stanford students Shiro and Phuthi explore the internal struggles at work balancing, competing priorities of justice for fellow Africans with pursuit of personal career goals; what more expats and those workplaces should do to address this trade-off and finish with a discussion about the inequities in fundraising and the need for investment funds created by Africans for Africans.
- [Insiders View of the International Development Sector - Part I](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2022/07/15/insiders-view-of-the-international-development-sector-part-i/) - Two brilliant African graduate students Shiro Wachira and Phuthi Tsatsi are from the University of Stanford, with plenty of experience in development sector in Kenya and South Africa. The two chronicle their career journey in the sector and how they got quite disillusioned. Why do they no longer want to work in development organisations?
- [Cosmopolitan Africans, Before Imperialism](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/07/22/cosmopolitan-africans-before-imperialism/) - Africa's engagement with the world before European colonialism holds unexpected episodes of un-colonial power relations.
- [Fighting the Good Fight: The Achievements of Black Lives Matter](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/07/22/fighting-the-good-fight-the-achievements-of-black-lives-matter/) - Nadia Sayed assesses the Black Lives Matter movement two years after mass protests erupted following the assassination of George Floyd. We share a talk she gave at Marxism festival in London in July 2022, which is based on her article for the International Socialism Journal. Defending the movement’s achievements while considering its weaknesses, Sayed argues that mobilising the power of the working class is crucial to ensuring that Black Lives Matter is not merely a moment but the beginning of a movement that delivers fundamental change.
- [Conservationism in Africa: Imperialism by Other Means](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/07/22/conservationism-in-africa-imperialism-by-other-means/) - Across Africa projects of capitalist extraction still ensure evictions, mass expropriations of land and misery. Today the government of Tanzania wants to expand the space for luxury tourists to enjoy picturesque views of nature – a wildlife fantasy of nature supposedly untouched by humans. Laibor Kalanga Moko and Jonas Bens argue that justification for the dispossession of indigenous communities has shifted from “economic development” to “wildlife conservation”.
- [Back to the Future: Imperialism’s Strange Bedfellows](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/07/29/back-to-the-future-imperialisms-strange-bedfellows/) - The political liberation and economic emancipation of Africa cannot be a one-country affair. By necessity, it must be a pan-African movement with international solidarity.
- [Sri Lankan Uprising Is a Cry for Regaining Democracy](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/07/29/sri-lankan-uprising-is-a-cry-for-regaining-democracy/) - With the stranglehold on polity and economy, characteristic of South Asian politics, the Rajapaksas used a toxic glue of racism and religious enmity to bind the Sinhala majority to their political will, which expectedly misfired.
- [9/8: Is Change Coming?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/08/05/9-8-is-change-coming/) - Economic issues have taken centre stage in this campaign season, a shift in focus that should be celebrated even though both Azimio La Umoja and Kenya Kwanza are making promises they may not be able to afford to keep and will likely find it hard to deliver.
- [“How Could William Ruto Contain RVP?”: Echoes of 2007 in Kenya Kwanza Rhetoric](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/08/07/how-could-william-ruto-contain-rvp-echoes-of-2007-in-kenya-kwanza-rhetoric/) - Wherever there is violence, it seems Ruto’s name features. It began with the infamous YK’92. Then came Kiambaa and Ruto’s trip to The Hague. Soon, witnesses started disappearing or being found murdered. Ruto’s name keeps cropping up in other cases.
- [Voter Apathy Among the Youth Is Not a Sign of Political Apathy](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/08/26/voter-apathy-among-the-youth-is-not-a-sign-of-political-apathy/) - We should be careful not to equate the youth’s apathy towards mainstream political structures with a disinterest in politics and social change.
- [Thabo Mbeki and the Quest for an Independent and Prosperous Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/08/26/thabo-mbeki-and-the-quest-for-an-independent-and-prosperous-africa/) - An interview with former South African president Thabo Mbeki on 19 June 2022 presented an opportunity for Africans within and outside the intellectual community to raise issues around particular developments in South Africa and the continent following the end of apartheid.
- [Role of IEBC Chair and Commissioners: What Is in the Name “Returning Officer”?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/08/30/role-of-iebc-chair-and-commissioners-what-is-in-the-name-returning-officer/) - At the core of the latest IEBC controversy is the question of whether or not commissioners have a role to play in counting, tallying, verifying, and announcing the presidential results. Public opinion is divided but what many pundits have ignored is the role and structure of the IEBC.
- [At Supreme Court, Kenya Is Also on Trial](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/09/04/at-supreme-court-kenya-is-also-on-trial/) - To have honest elections, its not just the electoral machinery but Kenya itself which will have to change.
- [Kenya’s 2022 General Election: A Biting Cold Wind Against Our Colonial Nakedness](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/09/09/kenyas-2022-general-election-a-biting-cold-wind-against-our-colonial-nakedness/) - Hubris got us here. Not only the hubris of our nobles who felt entitled to choose leaders for us from amongst themselves, but also from the scholars who have excelled in law, history and political science, but choose to serve the nobles rather than apply the knowledge to our human conditions in situ.
- [Kericho County: Tea, Foods and Shifting Weather Patterns](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/09/16/kericho-county-tea-foods-and-shifting-weather-patterns/) - Kericho County has experienced a gradual change in climatic conditions over the past three decades, with rainfall becoming irregular and unpredictable and drought more frequent. As a result, the region’s agricultural output is deteriorating.
- [So What is an African Immigrant Today?](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2022/09/16/so-what-is-an-african-immigrant-today/) - Anti-migration policies against Africans and a general climate of persecution against foreigners in Europe and North America are sending African migrants to new destinations such as China, Turkey, the Middle East and even South America.
- [Food Culture at the Kenyan Coast](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/09/20/food-culture-at-the-kenyan-coast/) - Coastal cuisine is known for being cheap and providing value for money. However, ironically, in the rural areas and informal settlements within the coastal region, a balanced diet is often inaccessible.
- [Taita Taveta: The Land of Dietary Contrasts](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/09/20/taita-taveta-the-land-of-dietary-contrasts/) - Low investments in the agricultural sector, inadequate rainfall, reduced crop yields, lack of water for irrigation, land scarcity, and poverty are among the challenges that affect food production in Taita Taveta, rendering the county food insecure.
- [Western Sahara: Africa’s Last Colony](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/09/23/western-sahara-africas-last-colony/) - Meriem Naïli writes about the continuing struggle for the independence of Western Sahara. Occupied by Morocco since the 1970s, in contravention of the International Court of Justice and the UN. The internationally recognised liberation movement, POLISARIO, has fought and campaigned for independence since the early 1970s. Naïli explains what is going on, and the legal efforts to secure the country’s freedom.
- [Burning Ambition: Education, Arson and Learning Justice in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/10/07/burning-ambition-education-arson-and-learning-justice-in-kenya/) - In a newly published book Elizabeth Cooper examines the complex reasons behind the frequent cases of arson in Kenya’s boarding secondary schools.
- [Why are Ethiopians Dying in Isaias’ War?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/10/07/why-are-ethiopians-dying-in-isaias-war/) - Isaias’s formula for government is dictatorship and his vision of Isaias’s vision for Ethiopia is as a backwater for Eritrea, providing it with raw materials and cheap labour.
- [Land Governance Priorities for the New Administration in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/10/07/land-governance-priorities-for-the-new-administration-in-kenya/) - The new administration should invest in enhancing service delivery by improving management of land information, developing and ensuring adherence to land use plans and spatial plans, and supporting continued implementation of land and environment laws and policies.
- [Great Lakes and Horn of Africa in Flux: Which Way President Ruto?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/10/21/great-lakes-and-horn-of-africa-in-flux-which-way-president-ruto/) - Newly elected President William Ruto has his work cut out crafting a coherent political strategy to address the crises bedevilling the Great Lakes Region and the Horn of Africa.
- [Snake Farming: Roots Party Is on to Something](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/11/04/snake-farming-roots-party-is-on-to-something/) - Thousands of Kenyans are dying from snakebite each year while others are left maimed for life. Snake farming could bridge the antivenom deficit in the country and alleviate the suffering of populations in snake-prone areas.
- [Rwanda Fed False Intelligence to U.S. and Interpol As It Pursued Political Dissidents Abroad](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/11/04/rwanda-fed-false-intelligence-to-u-s-and-interpol-as-it-pursued-political-dissidents-abroad/) - Rwandan dissidents have claimed that President Paul Kagame has used dirty tactics to go after his critics abroad. Now, a classified FBI report obtained by OCCRP confirms that Rwanda has been conducting “poison pen” operations on American soil for years.
- [Garbage Collectors Are Treated Like Trash](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/11/07/garbage-collectors-are-treated-like-trash/) - Refuse handlers work under very difficult conditions, exposing themselves to dangerous toxins, often with little or no protection. Sadly, despite helping to keep the environment clean, they get little recognition.
- [The Long War Against Plastic Carrier Bags](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/11/07/the-long-war-against-plastic-carrier-bags/) - The 2017 ban on plastic bags, which won Kenya international applause, did not come out of the blue. It came after a decade of sustained pressure from citizens and lobby groups who had had enough of the devastating effects of plastics.
- [NEMA Chief: Ban on Plastic Carrier Bags One of Kenya's Best Decisions](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/11/07/nema-chief-ban-on-plastic-carrier-bags-one-of-kenyas-best-decisions/) - Four years after Kenya outlawed single-use plastic bags, enforcement has not been without its challenges. Griffins Ochieng spoke with Mamo B. Mamo, the Director General (DG) of the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), who outlined the progress so far and what should be done to rid the country of the plastics menace.
- [Visualising Plastics Use in Society](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/11/07/visualising-plastics-use-in-society/) - Every day, tons of plastics are scavenged from various water bodies around the world. These plastics cause immeasurable damage to fragile ecosystems both on land and at sea. Cleaning up micro-plastics from the oceans requires concerted efforts by stakeholders across the board, and time is ticking.
- [Plastic Bag Menace: What Are the Alternatives?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/11/08/plastic-bag-menace-what-are-the-alternatives/) - The ban on plastics is yielding positive results in the form a cleaner environment. However, the search for environmentally-friendly and affordable alternatives to plastic carrier bags is still on.
- [The Science Is Wrong: It's Soil, Not Oil](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/11/11/the-science-is-wrong-its-soil-not-oil/) - The environmental concerns of our day are overstated. Working with nature, rather than against it, can create far greater abundance.
- [The Banality of Oppression, Multipolarity and the Ukraine War](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/11/11/the-banality-of-oppression-multipolarity-and-the-ukraine-war/) - In a way, Ukraine points to a new breed of oppression in a world in which oppression is commonplace. The Russian invasion of Ukraine dovetail with both the cultural and geopolitical aspects of oppression.
- [Capitalism Is Causing the Food Crisis](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/11/11/capitalism-is-causing-the-food-crisis/) - Small farmers are the world’s primary food suppliers. It’s imperative we listen to them, not the big corporates.
- [Demolitions in Nairobi: Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/11/11/demolitions-in-nairobi-settler-colonialism-and-the-elimination-of-the-native/) - Nairobi remains a monument to the colonial project of discriminatory citizenship, inequality and structural violence. For decades under British colonialism demolitions of ‘illegal’ housing became the norm. Mwangi Mwaura explains that current demolitions in the city are justified under the banner of cleaning-up and building the city to attract investments.
- [Mines, Pipelines and Oil Rigs: What HSBC’s ‘Sustainable Finance’ Really Pays For](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/11/11/mines-pipelines-and-oil-rigs-what-hsbcs-sustainable-finance-really-pays-for/) - The East African Crude Oil Pipeline has been thrown into the spotlight as investors raise concerns about environmentally damaging companies issuing debt labelled “sustainable”.
- [Book Review: Power, Politics and the Law by Githu Muigai](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/11/14/book-review-power-politics-and-the-law-by-githu-muigai/) - Prof Githu Muigai book, whose full title is Power, Politics and Law: Dynamics of constitutional change in Kenya, 1887- 2022 delves into the history of constitutional change from the colonial era to the present day, and will be found helpful by those looking for an overview of the key developments in our constitutional history.
- [The Existential Crisis Created by Humanity’s Addiction to Plastic](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/11/18/the-existential-crisis-created-by-humanitys-addiction-to-plastic/) - The materials used to make every day plastic items are harmful to human health yet we still make plastic because we need it. It is the medium through which we transport and store food, medicine, water, and just about everything else.
- [The Specter of Foreign Forces in Haiti](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/11/18/the-specter-of-foreign-forces-in-haiti/) - The so-called 'Haitian crisis' is primarily about outsiders' attempts force Haitians to live under an imposed order and the latter's resistance to that order.
- [COP 27: Climate Negotiations Repeatedly Flounder](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/11/18/cop-27-climate-negotiations-repeatedly-flounder/) - The distribution of global pandemic deaths ignored existing country vulnerability assessments and dealt some of the heaviest blows to the best prepared countries in the world
- [Mary Kanyaman Ekai: Gender and Livestock Rustling in Northern Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/11/25/mary-kanyaman-ekai-gender-and-livestock-rustling-in-northern-kenya/) - Mary Kanyaman Ekai was a peace ambassador from Turkana County who lost her life in the course of saving her family’s livestock in Turkana East on September 24th 2022. Kanyaman’s case illustrates the complexity of “cattle rustling” at Kenya’s northern frontier from a gender perspective.
- [War of the Worlds: Africa’s Next Great War](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/12/02/war-of-the-worlds-africas-next-great-war/) - The international community's limited attention span is laser-focused on jihadism in the Sahel and the imploding Horn of Africa. But interstate war is potentially brewing in the eastern DRC.
- [Will Ruto Resist the Temptation to Marginalize Civil Society?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/12/03/will-ruto-resist-the-temptation-to-marginalize-civil-society/) - William Ruto’s administration has an opportunity to distinguish itself from its predecessor as a defender of civil society’s independent role.
- [Nairobi, Nairobae, Nairoberry](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2022/12/09/nairobi-nairobae-nairoberry/) - Cacophonous, labyrinthine, gluttonous, angry, envious, charming, paradoxical, mysterious, confusing, alluring.
- [Macondo: A Literary Festival of Africa’s Remembering ](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/12/10/macondo-a-literary-festival-of-africas-remembering/) - Africa’s literary greats come together at a festival that refocuses African writing to rememory, memorialisation and remembering histories, and curating futures.
- [New Wine in Old Bottles: EAC Deploys Regional Force to the DRC](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/12/21/new-wine-in-old-bottles-eac-deploys-regional-force-to-the-drc/) - For the first time since its reformation in 1999, the East African Community is sending a regional force to the DRC. But can it win where others have failed?
- [Need for Course Correction in the War Against Al-Shabaab ](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/12/24/need-for-course-correction-in-the-war-against-al-shabaab/) - The full collaboration of the leaders of all the federal member states is a prerequisite if President Mohamud’s vision of eradicating Al-Shabaab is to be realised.
- [The Campaign that Remembered Nothing and Forgot Nothing](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/12/02/the-campaign-that-remembered-nothing-and-forgot-nothing/) - Once a master of coalition building, Raila Odinga killed his own party and brand, handed over his backyard to William Ruto, threw in his lot with Uhuru Kenyatta, ended up being branded a “state project”, and lost.
- [Kenya’s Protests Are Different This Time: 3 Things That Make It Harder for Government to Crush Them](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/07/09/kenyas-protests-are-different-this-time-3-things-that-make-it-harder-for-government-to-crush-them/) - The next few weeks will determine the future of the youth-led movement that was roused by the finance bill 2024.
- [Uprising in Kenya – Thousands Protest Austerity and Struggle for Liberation](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/07/08/uprising-in-kenya-thousands-protest-austerity-and-struggle-for-liberation/) - A new chapter in Kenya’s history is being written as young people of Gen-Z express their discontent, undergo political awakening, and collectively protest for a life free of poverty and humiliation. In their messages and actions, Gen-Z protesters have made it clear that their demands for change go beyond policy reforms and challenge the heart of global power relations and capitalism. As Kenyans take to the streets again to exercise their democratic rights, Zachary Patterson reflects on the context, challenges, and successes of the past 10 days of protests.
- [The Gen Z Uprising in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/07/02/the-gen-z-uprising-in-kenya/) - The Gen Z uprising in Kenya is part of a much larger African story. The youth bulge, which will give the continent a quarter of the world’s population and a third of its labor force by 2050, and 40 percent of the global population by 2100, is a huge historic asset.
- [Inside the World of ‘Sharenting’ in Kenya ](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/07/01/inside-the-world-of-sharenting-in-kenya/) - The online public feud between Rammzy and Mike Mondo has shed light on a dark corner of Kenya’s social media and influencer marketing – the violation of children’s privacy by their parents.
- [#RejectFinanceBill2024: The Political Awakening of Kenya’s Gen Z ](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/06/21/rejectfinancebill2024-the-political-awakening-of-kenyas-gen-z/) - The measures proposed in the Finance Bill 2024 have awakened the political activism of a generation that is struggling in the face of high unemployment and the skyrocketing cost of living.
- [#RejectFinanceBill2024: Gen Zers Defy State Violence ](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/06/26/rejectfinancebill2024-gen-zers-defy-state-violence/) - Intent on imposing its will on Kenyans, the government has reached for the colonial-era rule book to stamp out protests against Financial Bill 2024.
- [Gen Z Will Lead the People’s Revolution in Kenya ](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/06/20/gen-z-will-lead-the-peoples-revolution-in-kenya/) - A tech-savvy generation has shown that Kenyans do not need mediators in the form of politicians or civil society organisations to speak on their behalf.
- [Kenya at 61: Notes on Political Contestation in the Nation](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/06/25/kenya-at-61-notes-on-political-contestation-in-the-nation/) - A look at the development of political contestation for the control of the instruments of public power in the state.
- [Protests Then and Now: From Saba Saba to #RejectFinanceBill2024](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/06/28/protests-then-and-now-from-saba-saba-to-rejectfinancebill2024/) - A comparison between Saba Saba and the #RejectFinanceBill2024 protests and how the government of the day reacted to each.
- [Gen Zii (Or How to Say No to a President)](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/06/27/gen-zii-or-how-to-say-no-to-a-president/) - President Ruto’s two conflicting truths are these: that he both is and is not a hustler. A beauty of contrast, of failure even.
- [Thank You, Gen Zers, for Mashujaa Week](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2024/06/28/thank-you-gen-zers-for-mashujaa-week/) - #RejectFinanceBill2024 is now our new offering. We are not just a land of Mpesa, Maasai Mara and marathon runners.
- [Gen Z Protests: A Revolution Aided by Technology](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2024/06/27/gen-z-protests-a-revolution-aided-by-technology/) - Gen Z shows the power of digital activism - driving change from screens to the streets.
- [Kenya Resists](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/06/27/kenya-resists/) - The people of Kenya are rising up.
- [Alternatives to Kenya’s Austerity and the Militarized Response to the Gen Z Revolution](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/06/27/alternatives-to-kenyas-austerity-and-the-militarized-response-to-the-gen-z-revolution/) - In short, Gen Z’s must reject President Ruto’s commitment to austerity and to military solutions and instead opt for peaceful solutions that promote dialogue and understanding and that are consistent with Kenya’s 2010 Constitution.
- [Nyayo House: Unravelling the Architecture and Aesthetics of Torture](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2017/08/17/nyayo-house-unravelling-the-architecture-and-aesthetics-of-torture/) - The torture cells below can be buried underneath reams of waste paper but they cannot be detached from the building, which also means that they cannot be physically erased from our collective memories.
- [The Gen Z-Led Revolution: But Why Now?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/06/24/the-gen-z-led-revolution-but-why-now/) - We have learned from your failures, and we want to show you what is possible. Where you were afraid, we are not. Where you were blinded by tribal allegiance, we are not. Where you are complacent, we are awake.
- [Bystanders No More: How Young Women Are Working Their Way into Politics](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/06/20/bystanders-no-more-how-young-women-are-working-their-way-into-politics/) - While much of the wealth is still in the hands of men, and misogyny and violence against women in politics remain prevalent, the situation has improved and women’s involvement in politics continues to grow.
- [Between Two Evils](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/06/19/between-two-evils/) - After losing its parliamentary majority for the first time, the African National Congress is scrambling to form a coalition government. The options are bleak.
- [Dafur, 2023, on my Mind](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/01/10/dafur-2023-on-my-mind/) - A steady stream of hapless refugees flows without fanfare into countries surrounding war-torn Sudan while the entire world is wholly convulsed by images of blood and death cascading out of Ukraine and Gaza.
- [‘I Don’t Understand Why Kenyans Are Broke’: Mr. Kenyatta’s Debt Distress Revisited](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/11/15/i-dont-understand-why-kenyans-are-broke-mr-kenyattas-debt-distress-revisited/) - Many Kenyans have been wondering why we are told that the economy is growing at a brisk 5 to 6 per cent year after year, yet they are not feeling it. Instead, big companies are issuing profit warnings and laying off people. Kenya’s public debt has increased threefold over the last six years, from Sh1.8 trillion to Sh6 trillion and although the data shows that the economy is growing, the tax base is not expanding and revenue is falling short as debt service charges are rising.
- [Tedium and Nonchalance: What Middle America Thinks About Trump’s Guilt](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/06/17/tedium-and-nonchalance-what-middle-america-thinks-about-trumps-guilt/) - A malignant apathy has set in among the US population and Trump might yet again get to be the most powerful man in the world despite a criminal conviction.
- [EACOP's Impact on Women](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2024/06/14/eacops-impact-on-women/) - This episode goes beyond oil companies' celebratory narratives. We focus on the overlooked challenges faced by women impacted by the East African Crude Oil Pipeline.
- [The AU Commission Chair and Kenya’s Fledgling Hegemonic Ambitions](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/06/13/the-au-commission-chair-and-kenyas-fledgling-hegemonic-ambitions/) - To clinch the African Union Commission Chair, Kenya will have to cautiously court its neighbours and navigate the existing regional rivalries to receive their full backing.
- [Global, Continental and Regional Ramifications of Ruto’s US Visit](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/06/10/global-continental-and-regional-ramifications-of-rutos-us-visit/) - President William Samoei Ruto’s recent visit to the US is the first by an African leader in 16 years. Does the US take its relations with Africa seriously, or does it only call upon its so-called African partners when seeking quick-fix security solutions in pursuit of its national interests?
- [The Crude Dynamics of EACOP Oil: Human Rights](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2024/06/07/the-crude-dynamics-of-eacop-oil-human-rights/)
- [A Timeless Groove: Celebrating African Rhythms in Contemporary Jazz](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/06/06/a-timeless-groove-celebrating-african-rhythms-in-contemporary-jazz/) - The storytelling vibe deeply ingrained in African music shines through in today’s jazz tunes as jazz artists find endless inspiration in the music of the continent, constantly innovating and exploring new musical frontiers.
- [To Be a Woman in Sudan](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/06/04/to-be-a-woman-in-sudan/) - Women in Sudan have gone from being state subjects to war spoils.
- [Madaraka For Whom: A Gen Z Perspective](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2024/06/01/madaraka-for-whom-a-gen-z-perspective/) - Madaraka Day is a special occasion in Kenya's calendar. But beyond the festivities, Madaraka Day is also a time for reflection and unity. Do you feel Kenyans still attend national events, and what drives them to attend or not? What would you want the leaders to address on Madaraka Day? And what would you want older Kenyan folks to tell you about the Madaraka experience? Listen in on Gen Z's perspective on Madaraka Day.
- [Failure to Plan is Nairobi’s Plan to Fail](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/05/31/failure-to-plan-is-nairobis-plan-to-fail/) - The current planning problems, combined with a lack of affordable housing and failing infrastructure in Kenya, and in Nairobi in particular, are by no means new; they have dogged the country for half a century.
- [Why Sending Kenyan Police Officers to Haiti is a Terrible Idea](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/05/31/why-sending-kenyan-police-officers-to-haiti-is-a-terrible-idea/) - Kenya should help Haiti, but sending police officers there to quell violence that has its roots in a painful history of imperialism is not the way to go.
- [To Be a Doctor in Kenya - A Thankless Profession](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/05/31/to-be-a-doctor-in-kenya-a-thankless-profession/) - Just so we’re clear, the intern is a doctor, the first in line in case of any emergency in a hospital. The hours are back-breaking. But nobody cares.
- [Reflections on Somalia’s Political Curse](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/05/29/reflections-on-somalias-political-curse/) - The political paradoxes of Somalia highlight the need for a comprehensive revaluation of our political strategies, visions, and value systems.
- [‘Tiktoker’ Is the Gen Z Career of Choice in Kenya, Over Doctors & Lawyers. They Have Good Reasons](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/05/28/tiktoker-is-the-gen-z-career-of-choice-in-kenya-over-doctors-lawyers-they-have-good-reasons/) - Online remote work has been this much needed life raft for many. And in the world of online work, no gig is sweeter than being a paid influencer.
- [Inatuhusu: Mind Your Health](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2024/05/27/inatuhusu-mind-your-health/) - For a long time, very few used to talk a lot about mental health, and thankfully many more people do now. In this episode, we explore what has changed, because these days everyone, everywhere is mental health this and that. Still, do we have a generational gap between Gen Z, Millennials and our folks on the attitudes towards seeking mental health services? We also ask, how much do family dynamics and societal pressures contribute to mental health issues among young people?
- [Kenya's Struggle: Institutional Failures, Police Brutality, and the Fight for Climate Justice](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/05/24/kenyas-struggle-institutional-failures-police-brutality-and-the-fight-for-climate-justice/) - On the evening of 24 April, a deluge of rain led to flooding that decimated many homes along the Mathare and Getathuru rivers in Nairobi, Kenya. The floods have left nearly 200 people dead and 200,000 more displaced across the country. Zachary Patterson reports on the climate disaster that is claiming lives, and uprooting communities in Kenya and the activists providing support to the displaced while campaigning against state brutality.
- [The US Plan to Outsource Its Imperialism in Haiti to Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/05/23/the-us-plan-to-outsource-its-imperialism-in-haiti-to-kenya/) - The US has long outsourced meddling in Haiti to Global South countries. Recently Kenya has agreed to take over leading a US-backed multinational police intervention there — justifying its own “stabilization” mission with Pan-Africanist rhetoric.
- [The Proposed Amendments to the WHO’s International Health Regulations: Which Way Africa?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/05/22/proposed-who-pandemic-agreement-which-way-africa/) - The sovereignty of African states is threatened as they come under intense pressure to sign up to an agreement that will obligate them to divert their meagre resources from diseases that decimate their populations to a global fund for the centralised management of public health emergencies.
- [‘If Gays Didn’t Exist’: Inside Kenya’s Dalliance with Homophobia](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/05/21/if-gays-didnt-exist-inside-kenyas-dalliance-with-homophobia/) - As they lost the war at home, the West’s Christian Right shifted its attention to countries like Kenya where the cultural raw material was in place to trigger and shape social and legal responses.
- [Dandora Dumpsite: Where the Recycling Dream Goes to Die](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2022/09/23/dandora-dumpsite-where-the-recycling-dream-goes-to-die/) - While recycling is the preferred solution of plastic producing corporations, it is not environmentally sustainable as recycled plastic eventually returns to the environment leaving the original problem intact.
- [Bodies for Sale: Sex Tourism in Malindi](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2019/01/25/bodies-for-sale-sex-tourism-in-malindi/) - The other day, a girl who looked like she was in her late teens stood next to me at the newly-opened Ocean supermarket in Malindi. She was wearing a long, rather unruly weave, tight shorts and was chewing on a lollipop. Because she didn’t appear to be shopping, I assumed she was there with her
- [Another False Start: The Green Revolution Myths that Africa Bought](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/05/01/another-false-start-the-green-revolution-myths-that-africa-bought/) - The flaws and dire consequences of India’s Green Revolution should have warned policymakers of the likely disappointing results of GR in Africa.
- [Another False Messiah: Why Fin-Tech Isn’t the Panacea for Africa’s Development](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2021/07/02/another-false-messiah-why-fin-tech-isnt-the-panacea-for-africas-development/) - After the manifest failure of microcredit to address poverty in Africa and everywhere else, the international development community has hit upon a new microcredit-related idea that, it claims, will do the job this time around: ‘fin-tech’, i.e. financial technology. As Milford Bateman argues in this article that fin-tech has the potential to gravely undermine the position of the poor and to increase inequality while, not coincidentally, vastly enriching a narrow elite.
- [One Man, One Shilling Politics: A Return to Inequitable Development, Marginalisation and Exclusion](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/07/28/one-man-one-shilling-politics-a-return-to-inequitable-development-marginalisation-and-exclusion/) - Since assuming office in 2013, Uhuru Kenyatta has done everything that he could possibly do to undermine the 2010 Constitution, and the politics of “one man, one shilling” now being touted as a formula for revenue sharing is a complete reversal of the principle of equitable development for an equitable society enshrined therein.
- [Is Nairobi Dying?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/05/20/is-nairobi-dying/) - Poor leadership, out-of-control construction and lack of planning are threatening the future of Kenya’s capital city.
- [Nigeria and Uganda: Into the Woods](https://www.theelephant.info/investigations/2024/05/16/nigeria-and-uganda-into-the-woods/) - Amid hundreds of millions paid by donors to the Ugandan government for forest-saving projects, a powerful logging syndicate linked to the same government continues the desertification. In Nigeria, also despite much “green” funding, the government itself clears out the trees.
- [African Aces: The Unseen Journey of Tennis in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/05/14/african-aces-the-unseen-journey-of-tennis-in-kenya/) - The game of tennis is often overlooked yet it forms part of Kenya’s sporting heritage, with tennis legends like Suzanne Wakhungu and Paul Wekesa breaking out onto the international arena to bring home medals and accolades.
- [Batte Urgessa’s Assassination: Silencing Oromia’s Voice of Reason](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/05/13/batte-urgessas-assassination-silencing-oromias-voice-of-reason/) - The assassination of Batte Urgessa is part of an ongoing crackdown on dissent in Oromia in a bid by the Ethiopian government to consolidate power in the region.
- [How A Coordinated Online Campaign Tried To Blame Ex-Agriculture CS Peter Munya For “Fake Fertilizer”](https://www.theelephant.info/investigations/2024/05/11/how-a-coordinated-online-campaign-tried-to-blame-ex-agriculture-cs-peter-munya-for-fake-fertilizer/) - While coordinated inauthentic behavior is not a new phenomenon in the Kenyan media ecosystem, this level of coordination shows how the mechanisms used to set the agenda for online discourse and drive engagement around important issues can be manipulated.
- [Lest We Forget: Against 40 Years of Ugandan Neoliberalism](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/05/08/lest-we-forget-against-40-years-of-ugandan-neoliberalism/) - Kalundi Serumaga offers a radical take on the two-day conference at Makerere University in Kampala in January 2024, reflecting on 40 years of neoliberalism in Uganda. He observed that while Uganda’s intellectuals speak up against poverty and social instability, they fall short of envisioning a way out of the neoliberal impasse. Serumaga defines neoliberalism, elucidates its origins in Uganda’s tumultuous political and economic history, and emphasises the necessity of critiquing it.
- [Between M23 and Electric Vehicles](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/05/07/between-m23-and-electric-vehicles/) - With regional and global powers keen to take advantage of the DRC’s mineral wealth, it is hard to see how things can get better for the country in the short and medium term.
- [Millennials and Marriage: A Status Report](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2018/08/02/millennials-and-marriage-a-status-report/) - If a doctor were to diagnose millennial marriages, he would find them diseased, plagued by forces of nature beyond their control. These three anecdotes illustrate the three biggest challenges that millennials are grappling with in marriage. In December 2014, I accompanied a friend to Embu, in Eastern Kenya for a ruracio (A traditional Agikuyu and
- [Happily Ever After: A Millennial’s Reflection on Marriage](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2018/08/10/happily-ever-after-a-millennials-reflection-on-marriage/) - I take comfort in my choice to refrain from binding myself to the institution only to let it down. A comfort bred in the art of singlehood, while subconsciously in the search for that which I know I will never find – the Happily Ever After.
- [What Not to Do After the “I do” Is Done](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2023/02/25/what-not-to-do-after-the-i-do-is-done/) - The question of how property should be shared out between a divorcing couple remains vexed. We need laws and rulings that reflect our realities, not somebody else’s historical ones.
- [Memes vs. Munitions: Decoding the Imaginary Wars Shaping Gen Z's Future](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/05/03/memes-vs-munitions-decoding-the-imaginary-wars-shaping-gen-zs-future/) - Generation Z are the torchbearers and unwitting casualties of the digital battlefield. To navigate this complex landscape, Gen Zers will need critical thinking skills, media literacy, and an unwavering commitment to inclusivity and empathy.
- [Hard Labour: The Surrogacy Industry in Kenya - Part II](https://www.theelephant.info/investigations/2021/05/29/hard-labour-the-surrogacy-industry-in-kenya-part-ii/) - Commissioning parents who venture into the legal minefield of surrogacy in Kenya also risk losing their money, children, or both - either to the state who might intervene by taking the child away, or to surrogates who later backtrack and decide they want to keep the child. Allegations of human trafficking are also a real concern.
- [Hard Labour: The Surrogacy Industry in Kenya - Part I](https://www.theelephant.info/investigations/2021/05/28/hard-labour-the-surrogacy-industry-in-kenya-part-i/) - Commercial surrogacy agencies market Kenya as a safe, affordable and welcoming surrogacy destination to desperate and guileless foreign couples via dozens of websites. They mostly operate legally under Kenyan laws. Some operate quietly out of private houses in the Nairobi suburbs. In one case, the actual ownership trail disappears into the secretive and anonymous offshore world via the UK and the obscure Marshall Islands.
- [Somaliland: Pulling Back From the Brink](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/05/02/somaliland-pulling-back-from-the-brink/) - Somaliland’s move towards violence has reached the level of a political crisis. Indeed, a successful electoral record has not resulted in resilient formal institutions that can mediate inter-party disputes.
- [Nairobi: The City That Was Never Meant to Be](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2019/12/06/nairobi-the-city-that-was-never-meant-to-be/) - OWAAHH and JOHN KAMAU explore Nairobi’s evolution from its humble beginnings as a railway depot to its present status as the nation’s capital.
- [In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz: The Darker Side of the Green Economy](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/05/01/in-the-footsteps-of-mr-kurtz-the-darker-side-of-the-green-economy/) - Ben Radley argues that the Democratic Republic of the Congo provides an illustrative case of green imperialism, as large capital and hegemonic powers seek to control and generate profit from Congolese territory and resources under the discursive banner of ‘greening’ the global economy.
- [Punish or Pardon?](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2024/04/27/punish-or-pardon/) - In Kenyan law, drug traffickers and addicts receive the same punishment - a prison sentence. Some are calling for this to change, as addicts need rehabilitation that they can’t get in prison. Should drug addiction be treated as a disease?
- [#Kwibuka30: Knowledge as a Key to Preservation, Memorialisation and Resilience](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/04/30/kwibuka30-knowledge-as-a-key-to-preservation-memorialisation-and-resilience/) - Public lecture on the 30th Commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, hosted at Makerere University on 17 April 2024, and organised by the Rwanda High Commission to Uganda in collaboration with Makerere University.
- [Is the UN System Still Relevant?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/04/29/is-the-un-system-still-relevant/) - We are failing every day to force a ceasefire and stop the genocide. But failure is not an option. We must refocus this moment.
- [Unravelling South Sudan’s Path to Peace and Democratic Stability](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/04/26/unravelling-south-sudans-path-to-peace-and-democratic-stability/) - As it stands on the precipice of the December 2024 elections, South Sudan finds itself at a critical crossroads, a juncture where the choices made today will shape the trajectory of the nation for generations to come.
- [Black Viking Meets Black Slave Trader: A Convergence of Complexities](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/04/11/black-viking-meets-black-slave-trader-a-convergence-of-complexities/) - What do computer-generated images tell us about the evolution of coloniality and racialization in the AI era?
- [Africa and AI: The Case for an Afro-Centric AI Policy and Legislation](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/04/23/africa-and-ai-the-case-for-an-afro-centric-ai-policy-and-legislation/) - African-centric AI legislation must prioritize human rights, foster innovation, protect marginalized groups, uphold positive African values, and reject imposed norms.
- [Web of Players Behind the EACOP Pipeline](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2024/04/26/web-of-players-behind-the-eacop-pipeline/) - Episode one dives deep into the complex web of players behind the controversial EACOP pipeline. It explores how Total, CNOOC, and host governments are involved. And the financial risks: Why banks and insurance firms should avoid funding this project.
- [Under Fire: Forced Evictions and Arson Displace Nairobi’s Poor](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/03/12/under-fire-forced-evictions-and-arson-displace-nairobis-poor/) - Urban displacements greatly diminish the living conditions of already desperate populations living on the brink of poverty.
- [WHO Pandemic Treaty: Enhancement of Safety or Erosion of Sovereignty?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/04/24/who-pandemic-treaty-enhancement-of-safety-or-erosion-of-sovereignty/) - Under the terms of the proposed Pandemic Treaty and the Amended International Health Regulations, the ministries of health around the globe will be reduced to mere servants of the WHO in the event of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
- [Supermetrofication is Here](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/04/22/supermetrofication-is-here/) - The increasing dominance of the Super Metro model in the public transport sector might well deal a death blow to the popular nganya culture.
- [Passports to Riches: Semlex’s Dubious Dealings With African Governments](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2018/11/22/passports-to-riches-semlexs-dubious-dealings-with-african-governments/) - The Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the poorest countries in the world has one of the most expensive passports and Comoros issues diplomatic passports to non-Comorians. By TAMA MULE
- [Not France but South Africa Is the First Country in the World to Make Abortion Rights Constitutional](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/04/19/not-france-but-south-africa-is-the-first-country-in-the-world-to-make-abortion-rights-constitutional/) - Make no mistake, the recent decision by French lawmakers to enshrine the right to abortion in the constitution is a historic milestone, especially at a time when this right is under threat in several countries. The main headwind is probably blowing in the United States, where the Supreme Court overturned the famous Roe v. Wade
- [Sudanese Swords and Words-How Dialogue Can End The War](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/04/18/sudanese-swords-and-words-how-dialogue-can-end-the-war/) - Ending the war in Sudan will require real Sudanese dialogue and carving out a new political course. Nada Wanni argues that any Sudanese dialogue will be intensely contested particularly at this time of war. Wanni warns against a controlled, manufactured process, run by a political and economic elite which will only reproduce the conflict and political crisis in different forms. This will bring neither peace nor stability to Sudan or the region.
- [Exclusion of Intersex People: A Systemic Conundrum](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/09/30/exclusion-of-intersex-people-a-systemic-conundrum/) - Kenya is the first country in the world to have included intersex people as a distinct group during the last census in 2019. However, much remains to be done to raise public awareness across the country about who intersex people are and the importance of protecting them.
- [Reteti Elephant Sanctuary: Where the Community Runs the Show](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/04/17/reteti-elephant-sanctuary-where-the-community-runs-the-show/) - How a community took the bull by the horns and decided to take charge of wildlife conservation on its own land.
- [EU Agrochemical Companies Are Selling Poison to Kenya’s Farmers](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/04/15/eu-agrochemical-companies-are-selling-poison-to-kenyas-farmers/) - Big agrochemical companies are creating markets in developing countries for products that are no longer allowed for sale in Germany, mainly because of their harmful effects on health and the environment.
- [Grinding With No Remorse: How the Washington Establishment Analyses Lumumba’s Assassination Today](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/04/12/grinding-with-no-remorse-how-the-washington-establishment-analyses-lumumbas-assassination-today/) - Ludo De Witte, author of The Assassination of Lumumba reviews Stuart Reid’s recently published book The Lumumba Plot, which has been heavily promoted in the UK and the United States. De Witte argues that although Stuart Reid, the editor-in-chief of Foreign Affairs, provides some new information on the dynamics of this complex crisis, the real dynamics and internal coherence of the Congolese crisis remain hidden.
- [Looking Back at the SAPs Processes of the Early 1990s: The Ts & Cs](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/04/09/looking-back-at-the-saps-processes-of-the-early-1990s-the-ts-cs/) - When you seek help from the Bretton Woods institutions, be very aware that terms and conditions apply.
- [Hii Kenya Sio Yetu, We are Here Because We are Here](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/04/08/hii-kenya-sio-yetu-we-are-here-because-we-are-here/) - Sixty years after independence, we have failed to build a national dream that we collectively aspire to. We have failed to imagine Kenya as a properly functioning nation. But there is hope yet, if only we could harness that sense of community we often call upon in times of dire need.
- [The Political Economy of Ruto-Raila Handshake](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2024/04/05/the-political-economy-of-ruto-raila-handshake/) - We are hostages of this venal, idiotic class that harps on sovereignty and independence because all they can do now is enclose us in these colonial borders in the name of Handshakes and Handouts.
- [The Black Cross: Racism, Xenophobia, and Tribalism](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/04/04/the-black-cross-racism-xenophobia-and-tribalism/) - To fight racism, xenophobia and tribalism, Africa must take a strong unified stance, and greater efforts must be made to enforce human rights laws on the continent.
- [Revisiting the Legacy and Lessons of the Nigerian Civil War: A Reflection on History and Healing](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/03/29/revisiting-the-legacy-and-lessons-of-the-nigerian-civil-war-a-reflection-on-history-and-healing/) - The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War, lasted from 1967 to 1970, and resulted in the deaths of over a million people. The secession of Biafra was a response to perceived marginalization against the Igbo people, and grievances regarding representation and power. Gavin Williams argues that despite almost sixty years since end of the war, its legacy continues to shape Nigerian society and politics today.
- [Why Are Stories About African Suffering So Persistent?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/03/28/why-are-stories-about-african-suffering-so-persistent/) - One thing we’ve learned from our work is that images matter—representations, stories, and popular culture do not just reflect the inequalities produced by histories of colonialism and continuing extractive economies but also show how images helped create and continue to maintain those relationships.
- [Bridging the Gap: Transforming Food Aid into Sustainable Food Security](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/03/14/bridging-the-gap-transforming-food-aid-into-sustainable-food-security/) - It is imperative to ensure that food aid from programmes being implemented by the National Drought Management Authority in Kenya’s arid counties contribute to food security and the realisation of the right to food.
- [Declining Birth Rates No Cause for Alarm](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2023/08/04/declining-birth-rates-no-cause-for-alarm/) - The declining fertility and birth rate could yield a dividend for Kenya, particularly if investments are made in the education and skills of the working-age population.
- [The West and the Hypocrisy of Democracy](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/03/20/the-west-and-the-hypocrisy-of-democracy/) - The West has sold Africa a fake product called democracy. The vote is not a sign of democracy but a mere deception. Africa must find alternatives to democracy or, at a minimum, establish how accountability and transparency will form the core of its democratic practices.
- [From Buzzwords to Blueprints: Building a More Equitable and Transparent Funding System](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2024/03/15/from-buzzwords-to-blueprints-building-a-more-equitable-and-transparent-funding-system/) - Frustrated by empty calls for change in the INGO sector? This episode dives deep into the practical steps needed to make a difference! I speak with Christine Sow, CEO at Humentum.
- [By the Grace of God: Visions of Nairobian Destitution ](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/03/15/by-the-grace-of-god-visions-of-nairobian-destitution/) - In this economy, in this spectre-of-AI kind of world we presently inhabit, in this climate of wars and rumours of war, I do not consider finding myself living on the streets an impossible outcome.
- [Fertile Deception - Part 2](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2024/03/14/fertile-deception-part-2/) - For nearly two years, a troubling scheme has been unfolding in the heart of Kenya's agricultural landscape. Unbeknownst to many farmers, what they believed to be subsidized fertilizer was, in fact, nothing more than ordinary sand cleverly disguised and sold at inflated prices. Our investigative team embarked on an undercover operation, delving deep into the intricate web of mining, packaging, and widespread distribution of this counterfeit product throughout the nation. In this expose', we unveil the shocking truth behind this deceptive practice.
- [Fertile Deception - Part 1](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2024/03/11/fertile-deception-part-1/) - For nearly two years, a troubling scheme has been unfolding in the heart of Kenya's agricultural landscape. Unbeknownst to many farmers, what they believed to be subsidized fertilizer was, in fact, nothing more than ordinary sand cleverly disguised and sold at inflated prices. Our investigative team embarked on an undercover operation, delving deep into the intricate web of mining, packaging, and widespread distribution of this counterfeit product throughout the nation. In this expose', we unveil the shocking truth behind this deceptive practice.
- [German Catechism and Computer Games](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/03/12/german-catechism-and-computer-games/) - German support of the Zionist entity is rooted in a view of the Holocaust as the ultimate genocide to which no other genocide compares, a belief perpetuated by a hollow education system that focuses mainly on the Holocaust and the Third Reich.
- [Kenya’s ‘Hustler Man’ Vs. Burkina Faso’s ‘Upright Man’](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/03/11/kenyas-hustler-man-vs-burkina-fasos-upright-man/) - The differences in the performance of the “Hustler Man” in Kenya and the “Upright Man” in Burkina Faso is a function of genuine belief in transformational leadership, on the one hand, and mere self-serving populist political propaganda on the other.
- [Mandela for Sale](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/03/11/mandela-for-sale/) - Are Nelson Mandela's personal belongings sellable family heirlooms or heritage artifacts of national significance?
- [Uncovering Alliance One’s Tax Practices in Malawi: Where Do the Profits Go?](https://www.theelephant.info/investigations/2024/03/08/uncovering-alliance-ones-tax-practices-in-malawi-where-do-the-profits-go/) - Despite generating substantial revenue in Malawi, US multinational Alliance One reportedly evaded corporate income tax in 2020, according to a leaked document from the nation’s tax authority.
- [Embracing Africa’s Youth: A Call to Action](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/03/07/embracing-africas-youth-a-call-to-action/) - We must dispel the myth that young people are uninterested in politics and instead recognise their engagement in alternative spaces.
- [Article One Movement: Kenyans Uniting for Land, Freedom, and Justice](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/03/06/article-one-movement-kenyans-uniting-for-land-freedom-and-justice/) - Issa Shivji says constitutions do not make revolutions but revolutions make constitutions. He concedes, however, that constitutions matter and that they are sites of struggle as long as working class movements craft political demands from the provisions of the constitution and mobilize and organize the masses on such basis.
- [Kenya’s Tax Incentives: For Whom and at What Cost?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/03/05/kenyas-tax-incentives-for-whom-and-at-what-cost/) - As Kenya aims to rationalize and harmonize tax expenditures, the lingering question is whether this fiscal performance will lead to a standing ovation or calls for a script rewrite.
- [Entitled or Woke? Exploring Gen Z's Perceptions and Realities](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2024/03/01/entitled-or-woke-exploring-gen-zs-perceptions-and-realities/) - In recent years, Generation Z has garnered a reputation for being both entitled and woke, but what does this mean for the future? This conversation explores the nuances of Gen Z's identity, questioning whether their perceived entitlement clashes with their woke ideals or if it's a manifestation of their desire for a more equitable world.
- [Examining the Complexities: Kenya, Israel, and the Gaza Genocide](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/03/01/examining-the-complexities-kenya-israel-and-the-gaza-genocide/) - Israel’s strategy of economic partnership and development support to Kenya is a bid to legitimize its ailing international reputation.
- [Kelvin Kiptum: Now We Shall Never Know](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2024/03/01/kelvin-kiptum-now-we-shall-never-know/) - Kelvin Kiptum only ever ran three marathons, but his pace was so furious that two of them are two of the four fastest marathons ever run, and the other is the seventh fastest, and so his legacy will survive.
- [Scoring Big for Business: The Expansion of Africa's Sports Economy](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/02/28/scoring-big-for-business-the-expansion-of-africas-sports-economy/) - African sport is going global, and with it come an emergent ecosystem of business opportunities, deals and alliances.
- [Thirty Years of Anti-Corruption: A Personal Reflection](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2024/02/23/thirty-years-of-anti-corruption-a-personal-reflection/) - Journalist and activist John Githongo reflects on the shifting story of anti-corruption in Africa, from Western models to new agendas.
- [Religion and Politics: The Devil Is in the Details](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2019/05/10/religion-and-politics-the-devil-is-the-details/) - From the dawn of independence, the same old script of religious manipulation has thrived, writes CAREY BARAKA. One would imagine for the millennial generation, the tricks that Moi used to stay in power for twenty-four years, the same tricks that Uhuru and Ruto are using, would not work in this era. Yet, it is apparent that history keeps repeating itself and these tactics are still at play today.
- [An Ordinary Kenyan and a Predatory Gangster Theology](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2018/07/26/an-ordinary-kenyan-and-a-predatory-gangster-theology/) - The connection between Ruto the public Christian and Ruto the rich/ generous/ corrupt(?) man, is not incidental.
- [Abiy Ahmed’s Ethiopia: Simmering Crisis and Misplaced Priorities](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/02/26/abiy-ahmeds-ethiopia-simmering-crisis-and-misplaced-priorities/) - Despite the country’s economic struggles and the dire humanitarian situation, the government’s actions are out of sync with the reality in the country, with public spending going to vanity projects even as living conditions worsen for millions of Ethiopians.
- [Bitter Fruit: Kenyans Sue Pineapple Producer for Alleged Torture and Murder](https://www.theelephant.info/investigations/2024/02/23/bitter-fruit-kenyans-sue-pineapple-producer-for-alleged-torture-and-murder/) - At the end of December, a civil claim was filed against Fresh Del Monte by a group of human rights organisations on behalf of 10 individuals, who alleged they were stabbed, stoned, tortured and raped by the company’s guards.
- [Another Now is Here](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2024/02/22/another-now-is-here/) - For the Gen Zers and the millennials, another world is already here. And they can lead us to it if generations begin to talk to each other, listen to each other, and see one another.
- [We Dreamt of Africa: The Aborted Plan for a Jewish Homeland in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/02/21/we-dreamt-of-africa-the-aborted-plan-for-a-jewish-homeland-in-kenya/) - East Africa was one of the places that European Jews considered as a potential homeland in the early twentieth century but a proposal wrongly called the Uganda Plan, because the Uasin Gishu plateau was believed to lie in the neighbouring Uganda Protectorate, came to naught.
- [Space for Diversity in an Increasingly Uncivilised World](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/02/20/space-for-diversity-in-an-increasingly-uncivilised-world/) - We live in an epoch where, instead of the world using digital pathways to exchange diverse ideas in real time to create robust solutions to current issues, we are using them to impose the failing ideas on those who have workable ones.
- [Case Notes from Post Colonial Africa, and how its Governance Infrastructure is Adapting to its Economic PTSD](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/02/19/case-notes-from-post-colonial-africa-and-how-its-governance-infrastructure-is-adapting-to-its-economic-ptsd/) - How the quantum leap in Africa’s public policy is adapting to its Economic PTSD, evolving past its coping mechanisms, and ultimately addressing its compulsive self-sabotage.
- [Exploring the Trifecta of Capitalism, Conflict, and Exploitation in the Horn of Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/02/16/exploring-the-trifecta-of-capitalism-conflict-and-exploitation-in-the-horn-of-africa/) - Mark Duffield and Nicholas Stockton write about the spectacular growth in livestock exports from the Horn of Africa to the urbanising Gulf states, and argue that neoliberalism has transformed the former reciprocity between ‘farmers’ and ‘herders’ into a relation of permanent war. By Mark Duffield and Nicholas Stockton.
- [Threats and Intimidation Against Senator Okiya Omtatah Must Cease](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/02/13/threats-and-intimidation-against-senator-okiya-omtatah-must-cease/) - Kenya’s history is replete with accounts of similar threats and intimidation against Senator Omtatah’s predecessors in the postcolonial parliament.
- [Stuck in Polycrisis, Hypocrisy and Double Standards](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/02/12/stuck-in-polycrisis-hypocrisy-and-double-standards/) - The world faces multiple crises in which the major powers feature prominently - instigating, funding, or prolonging them. On the African continent, the chaos presents an opportunity for external powers to exercise influence and gain access to resources. How can Africa lift itself out of the morass?
- [No Excuses, Women’s Lives Matter](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2018/10/12/no-excuses-womens-lives-matter/) - The safety of women has to be taken seriously and the media plays a crucial role in changing the way we trivialize violence against women.
- [Behind the Goalposts: Navigating the Political Arena of Hosting AFCON](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/02/09/behind-the-goalposts-navigating-the-political-arena-of-hosting-afcon/) - What does it take to host the African Cup of Nations?
- [The Enchanting Power: Unveiling the 'Magic' of the Beautiful Game](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/02/09/the-enchanting-power-unveiling-the-magic-of-the-beautiful-game/) - African football is often maligned as steeped in superstition. But rather than endemic to the continent, debates about football 'sorcery' reflect global dynamics.
- [Why Kenya Risks Losing its Grip as the Regional Logistics Hub](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/02/08/why-kenya-risks-losing-its-grip-as-the-regional-logistics-hub/) - As Kenya’s neighbours forge ahead with the expansion and modernisation of their port infrastructure, the country risks losing its place as the regional logistics hub because of the ascendance of political considerations over economic interests.
- [Rise in Disinformation and Influence Operations: Kenyans Beware](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/02/06/rise-in-disinformation-and-influence-operations-kenyans-beware/) - Kenyans need to be aware of the scale, the extent and the dangers of disinformation on the internet and on social media, as well as the reality of influence operations designed to deceive or sway public opinion.
- [Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/02/07/lies-damn-lies-and-statistics/) - Driven by political pressure to show performance, and in a rush to complete projects that can be expressed in numbers or that cement legacies, the government risks implementing projects that are unsuitable, error-prone and unambitious.
- [African Feminists: Leading from the Front in the War Against Femicide](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/02/05/african-feminists-leading-from-the-front-in-the-war-against-femicide/) - African feminist activism on femicide has created and continues to create a wealth of knowledge that is fuelling an unprecedented political activism centred on women’s non-negotiable belonging, as well as our right to security, safety and dignity.
- [Tax Incentives in Kenya: For Whom and at What Cost?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/01/30/tax-incentives-in-kenya-for-whom-and-at-what-cost/) - Kenya's tax incentives, aimed at boosting economic sectors, raise concerns. With tax expenditures averaging KSh383.9 billion over five years, experts argue the funds could address debt and support counties by providing adequate resources. Despite legislation mandating transparency, opacity and non-disclosures persist. Assessments of preferential tax schemes are lacking, potentially causing revenue losses.
- [The Claudine Gay Saga and the Dysfunctions of American Institutions and Politics: Part 2](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/02/02/the-claudine-gay-saga-and-the-dysfunctions-of-american-institutions-and-politics-part-2/) - For a Black president in a harshly visible fishbowl, one doesn't even get the luxury of making any mistake. That is the tragedy and predictable fate of Claudine Gay as the first Black woman president of Harvard University.
- [The Claudine Gay Saga and the Dysfunctions of American Institutions and Politics: Part 1](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/02/01/the-claudine-gay-saga-and-the-dysfunctions-of-american-institutions-and-politics-part-1/) - Gay’s ouster reflects much larger forces jostling for supremacy in America’s troubled universities, deeply fractured society, and increasingly toxic politics. It is instructive that her presidency was bookended by two events, one domestic, the other international.
- [In the Chaos of Crisis: IMF, SAPs 2.0 and Kenya’s Hard-Knock Economy](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/01/31/in-the-chaos-of-crisis-imf-saps-2-0-and-kenyas-hard-knock-economy/) - Kenya faces predicted economic challenges due to high debt. The IMF proposed fiscal consolidation witch includes increased taxes and privatization has been criticised for causing job losses and exacerbating corruption.
- [Kenya: Be thankful I don't take it all, Cause I'm the Taxman, Yeah, I'm the Taxman](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/01/29/kenya-be-thankful-i-dont-take-it-all-cause-im-the-taxman-yeah-im-the-taxman/) - Kenya is deploying paramilitary-trained tax collectors, RSAs, for aggressive anti-tax evasion measures. RSAs clash with uneducated traders in informal areas, causing strained relations with the private sector. Government's IMF-influenced taxation faces legal battles, hindering economic growth and democratic issues. East African Tax and Governance Network advocates citizen education for a transparent tax system.
- [Food and Migration: A Culinary Journey Through East Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2018/02/08/food-and-migration-a-culinary-journey-through-east-africa/) - Today, there are over forty different ethnic communities in Kenya, each with their own distinct traditions, cultures, languages and beliefs.
- [Erosion of Civil and Political Rights in Africa: Ibrahim Index (IIAG) 2020 Report](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2021/03/19/erosion-of-civil-and-political-rights-in-africa-ibrahim-index-iiag-2020-report/) - The IIAG report concludes that 2020 was a terrible year for democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa where political freedoms have deteriorated over the last decade, with citizens having less freedom to assemble in 2019 than they did in 2010.
- [TRUST: The Power of Storytelling to Explain the Utility of Technology](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/12/10/trust-the-power-of-storytelling-to-explain-the-utility-of-technology/) - Chief Nyamweya and Anne Connelly’s graphic novel and motion comic imagines an alternative African future using storytelling and blockchain technology.
- [Counterterrorism, Technology and Development in Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2023/02/10/counterterrorism-technology-and-development-in-africa/) - There is evidence that many terrorist organizations in Africa are rapidly creating technical solutions to enhance their lethal operations. It is therefore of paramount importance that African counterterrorism efforts keep up with technological advancements.
- [Trust and the Technological Singularity: Will Africa Rescue Humanity?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2023/04/18/trust-and-the-technological-singularity-will-africa-rescue-humanity/) - The issue of trust has come to the forefront as the digital ecology penetrates every corner of the global mega-village but in Africa, the land of non-linear evolution, the impact of AI may yet be positive.
- [In Tech We Trust?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2023/05/03/in-tech-we-trust/) - It is the soft yet intractable matter of governance that determines if technologies can deliver efficiency and effectiveness, as well as democratic dividends, and uphold values such as trust in society. Yet, overlooked in tech discourses is the governance of these technologies themselves, and how that affects governance with them.
- [The You, the Me and the Technology](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2023/05/06/the-you-the-me-and-the-technology/) - When power feels its position is under threat, then all conventions of trust may be abandoned, with the danger of breaking down the social contract between the governed and the governing.
- [ChatGPT: What the Hype?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2023/02/13/chatgpt-what-the-hype/) - In the long run, artificial intelligence may turn out to be the best tool at our disposal to identify actual indolence
- [Enter Cambridge Analytica; Public Asks, Kabila Gani?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2017/07/20/enter-cambridge-analytica-public-asks-kabila-gani/) - The ‘psychographics’ experts who swung the US elections will have a hard time solving Kenya’s tribal arithmetic
- [Cambridge Analytica and the 2017 Elections: Why Has the Kenyan Media Remained Silent?](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2019/08/09/cambridge-analytica-and-the-2017-elections-why-has-the-kenyan-media-remained-silent/) - Did President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Jubilee party win the 2013 and 2017 elections fairly, or did a dubious UK-based consultancy company help them win by using unethical means? RASNA WARAH explores possible reasons why the Kenyan media has remained mum about Cambridge Analytica despite the international uproar about its use of dirty tactics.
- [Another Now: Why the “Jerusalema” Dance Challenge Reveals a Longing to Re-Imagine the World](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2020/10/16/another-now-why-the-jerusalema-dance-challenge-reveals-a-longing-to-re-imagine-the-world/) - What then, is Jerusalema, if not the finest distillation of a global desire for another city on a hill? And not by simply turning to another great power as America’s ready replacement—China is not the world’s savior—but one that like the dance challenge itself believes in the possibility of collective subjectivity.
- [They Deserve to Die: The Increasingly Accepted Justification for Extrajudicial Killings](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2017/05/04/they-deserve-to-die-the-increasingly-accepted-justification-for-extrajudicial-killings/) - “That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.” - Martin Luther King Jr When my colleagues and I at the Independent Medico-Legal Unit (IMLU) learnt about the disappearance in June 2016 of our comrade advocate Willie Kimani, his client and their taxi
- [Memo to Political Busybodies: There Is No Value Addition in Processing Coffee. It Is a Cockroach Idea](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/05/21/memo-to-political-busybodies-there-is-no-value-addition-in-processing-coffee-it-is-a-cockroach-idea/) - As long as cartels and cockroach ideas rule the roost, coffee farmers will continue to vote with their feet. Because farmers owe themselves an income, be it from bananas or avocados, it does not matter.
- [Fighting the Good Fight: An African Journey in Redefining Global Tax Rules](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/01/24/fighting-the-good-fight-an-african-journey-in-redefining-global-tax-rules/) - The UN is actively addressing the challenges of international tax cooperation in the digital era, highlighting the necessity to revamp existing rules. A recent UN report offers three options: a legally binding multilateral convention, a constitutive framework convention defining principles, and a non-binding multinational agenda. The UN seeks to address discontent with current tax treaties and foster inclusive and effective international tax cooperation.
- [The Giant Challenge of Higher Education in Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2018/07/05/the-giant-challenge-of-higher-education-in-africa/) - Over the past two decades African higher education has undergone profound changes. In the 1960s and 1970s, universities on the continent were few in number, small in scale, and elitist institutions with the limited mandate of producing cadres for the Africanization or indigenization of the newly independent state apparatuses. In the 1980s and 1990s, during
- [Maid in Hell: A Critical Reflection](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2023/04/10/maid-in-hell-a-critical-reflection/) - Maid in Hell gives unprecedented access to this frightening and brutal form of modern slavery. Following employment agents who vividly describe the trade, as well as maids who struggle to find a way home after harrowing, and sometimes, deadly experiences, we come to understand the grotesque reality faced by thousands of women each day. In a conversation hosted by Alliance, we explore this.
- [In Search of the Real Soul: Re-Imagining the Real Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/01/25/in-search-of-the-real-soul-re-imagining-the-real-africa/) - As they attempt to occupy a place as global citizens on equal terms, Africans must familiarise themselves with their rich and complex historical epochs and how these define their identity.
- [Unveiling the Ethiopia-Somaliland MoU: Hopes and Uncertainties](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/01/23/unveiling-the-ethiopia-somaliland-mou-hopes-and-uncertainties/) - As diplomatic manoeuvres unfold, the Memorandum of Understanding between Ethiopia and Somaliland symbolises the rising geopolitical significance of Africa and the effects of competition among great and middle powers.
- [Debt and Taxes: Kenya Is Living Large on Borrowed Money](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2017/12/07/debt-and-taxes-kenya-is-living-large-on-borrowed-money/) - Kenya’s fiscal policy - the means by which the government adjusts its spending levels, revenue generation and collection, and debt to monitor and influence the economy- has been a defining feature of the current administration. The three have been characterised by almost consistent features and trends. Some background information is useful. Kenya has had an
- [Looking Back at the SAPs Processes of the Early 1990s](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/01/18/looking-back-at-the-saps-processes-of-the-early-1990s/) - The Structural Adjustment Programmes of the early 1990s left ordinary Kenyans reeling under extreme economic hardship. Three decades later, SAPs are back, the Bretton Woods methods of inflicting economic pain on Kenyans unchanged.
- [Tax Justice: Because the World Is Round, but Our Tax Loopholes Shouldn’t Be](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/01/22/tax-justice-because-the-world-is-round-but-our-tax-loopholes-shouldnt-be/) - While President Ruto's calls for a just financial system were praised in the European Parliament, most Western states opposed the vote towards a fairer international tax system. The global south, however, succeeded in beginning the transfer of tax decision-making from the OECD to the UN thereby emphasising the need for greater representation in combating economic injustice and illicit financial flows, by stressing the importance of a consensus approach.
- [It’s a Nurses’ Market Out There, and Kenyans Are Going For It](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/11/28/its-a-nurses-market-out-there-and-kenyans-are-going-for-it/) - Nurses are central to primary healthcare and unless Kenya makes investments in a well-trained, well supported and well-paid nursing workforce, nurses will continue to leave and the country is unlikely to achieve its Sustainable Development Goals in the area of health and wellbeing for all.
- [Commissions or Omissions of Inquiry? Why Kenya Has Failed to Address Historical and Other Injustices](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2018/04/05/commissions-or-omissions-of-inquiry-why-kenya-has-failed-to-address-historical-and-other-injustices/) - Kenya experienced a protracted electoral period after the unprecedented nullification of the August 8 presidential election last year. After the Supreme Court gave its detailed ruling on September 20, the opposition leader Raila Odinga stated that if there were no reforms in the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), the repeat election ordered by the
- [The Murder of Women in Kenya and the Psychology of Blame](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2021/03/27/the-murder-of-women-in-kenya-and-the-psychology-of-blame/) - Victim blaming prepares the groundwork to invalidate the victim and removes inhibitions from those deploying it, giving another man permission to violate the victim.
- [Slay Queens, Socialites and Sponsors: The Normalisation of Transactional Sex and Sexual Violence in Kenyan Society](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2018/11/01/slay-queens-socialites-and-sponsors-the-normalisation-of-transactional-sex-and-sexual-violence-in-kenyan-society/) - Oyunga Pala examines a capitalist-patriarchal system that has commodified female bodies.
- [The Trade in Pesticides: A Toxic Double Standard](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/01/17/the-trade-in-pesticides-a-toxic-double-standard/) - African countries have long been victims of the double standard that allows agrochemical giants to dump in their territories pesticides that are banned or restricted in Europe. It is high time they put effective pesticide regulations in place.
- [Religious Charlatans and Why Christians Fall for Them](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2019/09/19/religious-charlatans-and-why-christians-fall-for-them/) - In a continent with crippled medical facilities, claims of divine healing and miracles by duplicitous evangelical/Pentecostal ministers have abounded, with disastrous effects. These fake pastors take advantage of the broken healthcare system and the helplessness of poor people to enrich themselves and to project a God-like image.
- [Why I Quit my Civil Service Job After a Month](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2023/12/22/why-i-quit-my-civil-service-job-after-a-month/) - With Gen Xers still hanging around civil service jobs, baying for promotions and refusing to retire, we Gen Zers should create our own coloured-collar jobs doing what we love doing.
- [Sugar Subsector Reforms a Herculean Task for Ruto](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/01/11/sugar-subsector-reforms-a-herculean-task-for-ruto/) - It is commendable that the Ruto regime is taking steps to revive the sugar sector but President Ruto will require strong goodwill to succeed where his predecessors have failed.
- [Gen Z: Flipping the Script or Just Hitting 'Ctrl+Z'? Exploring the Power and Potential of the Next World-Changers](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2024/01/12/gen-z-flipping-the-script-or-just-hitting-ctrlz-exploring-the-power-and-potential-of-the-next-world-changers/) - Gen­er­a­tion Z has emerged as a pop­u­la­tion increas­ing­ly wor­thy of atten­tion, espe­cial­ly now as its old­er mem­bers are in their 20s and have become a polit­i­cal­ly engaged force in recent elec­tions.
- [Lagos From Its Margins: Everyday Experiences in a Migrant Haven](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/11/30/lagos-from-its-margins-everyday-experiences-in-a-migrant-haven/) - From its beginnings as a fishing village, Lagos has grown into a large metropolis that attracts migrants seeking opportunity or Internally Displaced Persons fleeing violence.
- [Freedom Has Never Been Free](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2024/01/12/freedom-has-never-been-free/) - Zoomers are walking a tightrope, navigating between ambition and anxiety, the weight of expectations, the fear of failure, and the uncertainty of the future casting a shadow on the well-being of a generation in pursuit of economic stability.
- [Historical Police Brutality in Kisumu ](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024/01/12/historical-police-brutality-in-kisumu/) - Police have consistently used excessive force in quelling protests in Kisumu and its environs and the history of the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital is covered in the blood of innocent victims.
- [How Gen Z Hope to Change Human Rights Advocacy](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2023/12/21/why-we-need-gen-z-in-human-rights-advocacy/) - Human rights advocacy needs to bring in Gen Zers and adopt the tools of that demographic if the fight for social justice is to bear fruit.
- [Unseen: The Story of Our Forgotten Widows](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2024/01/09/unseen-the-story-of-our-forgotten-widows/) - Harmful cultural traditions and the rise of modernity and individualism within our societies have left vulnerable widows with nowhere to turn to in times of trouble.
- [On Collective Memory and Resistance](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2024/01/10/on-collective-memory-and-resistance/) - At a time when truth is threatened, remembering what happened becomes an act of resistance. It is only from a truthful reading of the past that we can fashion new worlds.
- [Being Black in Argentina](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2023/12/08/being-black-in-argentina/) - What does Javier Milei’s presidential victory mean for Argentina’s black and indigenous minorities?
- [The Death of a Nation: Kenya @ 60](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2023/12/12/the-death-of-a-nation-kenya-60/) - Sixty years after independence we are in a worse position than we were in 1963. Levels of impunity have reached astronomical levels and, thanks to the IMF and an insensitive leadership, we are likely to see poverty and unemployment levels rise.
- [Tigray Atrocities: Extending ICHREE Mandate Crucial for Accountability](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2023/09/21/tigray-atrocities-extending-ichree-mandate-crucial-for-accountability/) - If the Human Rights Council and its members genuinely condemn the atrocities committed in the war waged by the Ethiopian government on Tigray, they must demonstrate their commitment to accountability by extending ICHREE’s mandate.
- [Transcending the Challenge of Being Palestinian ](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2024/01/11/transcending-the-challenge-of-being-palestinian/) - Born stateless into a Palestinian family whose history is marked by loss and great adversity, I am driven by a strong desire to provide assistance and support to those facing challenges similar to those experienced by my people.
- [The Colonisation of Palestine: Exhuming a British Imperial Crime](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/01/10/the-colonisation-of-palestine-exhuming-a-british-imperial-crime/) - Like other British imperial possessions, Palestine was acquired on the cheap and under false pretences, official corruption sealing a deal doomed to end in perpetual violence.
- [Postcolonial Hauntology: The Legacy of Enlightenment Thought](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2024/01/08/postcolonial-hauntology-the-legacy-of-enlightenment-thought/) - The modern political world is inevitably haunted and affected by the developments of the modern age, whose beginning is also the beginning of the Age of Enlightenment.
- [The Era of Roadside Policy Declarations is Back](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/02/20/the-era-of-roadside-policy-declarations-is-back/) - Domestic rice production has increased steadily in recent years due to an increase in acreage and improvements in yield, so what is ailing rice farming in Mwea? While farmers’ revenues have fallen sharply, prices have been relatively stable so, clearly, if there is a problem then it is one of production, and probably related to the recent massive expansion of the irrigation scheme.
- [Polycrisis and Proxy War in the Horn: What Outcomes for Tigray? ](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2023/12/22/polycrisis-and-proxy-war-in-the-horn-what-outcomes-for-tigray/) - Will the Tigray Interim Regional Administration (TIRA) deliver on the core promises of the Pretoria Agreement and ensure a smooth transition or will it succumb to power struggles within the Tigray elites?
- [Gen Z: Unplugging the Old World, Plugging in the Future!](https://www.theelephant.info/videos/2023/12/22/gen-z-unplugging-the-old-world-plugging-in-the-future/) - Like every generation, Gen Z's behaviors are shaped by how they grew up. Young people today have come of age in the shadow of climate doom, pandemic lockdowns, and fears of economic collapse. Despite this, they are redefining tomorrow's global landscape in profound ways.
- [Unhistories - Kenya’s Mau Mau: Resistance, Mass Graves and Compensation](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2021/12/06/unhistories-kenyas-mau-mau-resistance-mass-graves-and-compensation/) - This third part of the Unhistories series covers some of the figures who shaped the fight on both sides among Kenyans and the British, and introduces members from the Mau Mau War Veterans Association and their stories.
- [Unhistories - Kenya’s Mau Mau: Detention Camps and Torture](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2021/12/01/unhistories-kenyas-mau-mau-detention-camps-and-torture/) - This second part of the Unhistories series covers the ‘prohibited areas’ where the fighting took place, the mobile gallows, the trials, torture, and prisons.
- [Unhistories - Kenya’s Mau Mau: A Walk Through the Archives](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2021/11/25/unhistories-kenyas-mau-mau-a-walk-through-the-archives/) - This documentary project titled Unhistories departs from the Hanslope Disclosure in which British colonial archives were destroyed, hidden and manipulated. Known as Operation Legacy in the 1950s, the British colonial administration in Kenya destroyed much of the documentation relating to the Emergency prior to their departure in 1963.
- [To Be a Gen Z in Kenya: Is Delulu the only Solulu?](https://www.theelephant.info/reflections/2023/12/19/to-be-a-gen-z-in-kenya-is-delulu-the-only-solulu/) - Disillusionment grows, faith in the Kenyan state dwindles. Do we Gen-Zers succumb to utter despair or do we rally and contribute to shaping the unfolding realities of our time?
- [“If my husband touches you I will kill you”](https://www.theelephant.info/investigations/2022/09/16/if-my-husband-touches-you-i-will-kill-you/) - Rape, abuse, neglect, and death threats: the lives of Kenyan women returning from Saudi.
- [Risks and Opportunities of Admitting Somalia Into the EAC](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2023/12/08/fear-and-loathing-in-the-eac-risks-and-opportunities-of-admitting-somalia/) - The process of integrating Somalia into the EAC should be undertaken with long-term success in mind rather than in the light of the situation currently prevailing in the country.
- [Dubai World Climate Summit, Carbon Trading and the Land Question](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2023/12/11/dubai-world-climate-summit-carbon-trading-and-the-land-question/) - African governments have been championing carbon offset projects as part of the actions to address the challenge of climate change. In doing so, it is in their interest to ensure that the carbon offsetting deals they agree to do not impinge on the land rights of Africa’s rural populations.
- [Kenya: Redefining Clientele Chic - From 'Perfect Client State' to Diplomatic Slay Queen!](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2023/12/12/kenya-redefining-clientele-chic-from-perfect-client-state-to-diplomatic-slay-queen/) - On the 60th anniversary of Kenya’s independence, Gathanga Ndung’u writes that the country has spent decades as the loyal servant of imperialism. The country may have express highways, a busy international airport, a modern railway, and an emerging silicone savannah, but in reality, Kenya seeks only to endear itself to world leaders and potential investors through well-packaged imaginaries of the present and the future. Ndung’u lists some of Kenya’s extensive betrayals – not least support for Israel and the abandonment of Palestinians.
- [Dehumanising the Oromo: A Rite of Passage Into Ethiopianness](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2023/12/13/dehumanising-the-oromo-a-rite-of-passage-into-ethiopianness/) - Plagued by a deep-rooted inferiority complex, the ruling Oromo elite has pursued a policy of dehumanising and persecuting its own constituency in order to maintain its grip on power.
- [Kenya Must Slay the Vampire of Graft](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2023/12/14/kenya-must-slay-the-vampire-of-graft/) - We need mass mobilisation and civil disobedience if corruption is to be vanquished and the oligarchs defeated.
- [Changes in Suicide Reporting Welcome, but Slow](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2023/11/28/changes-in-suicide-reporting-welcome-but-slow/) - Without a deeper understanding of the harm insensitive reporting on suicide causes, attempts to change may be wrongly deemed as political correctness.
- [The Repression of Palestine Solidarity in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2023/12/04/the-repression-of-palestine-solidarity-in-kenya/) - Kenya is one of Israel’s closest allies in Africa. But the Ruto-led government isn’t alone in silencing pro-Palestinian speech.
- [Only Connect: Human Beings Must Connect to Survive](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2023/11/30/only-connect-human-beings-must-connect-to-survive/) - We must fight to remain human, to make connections across borders, race, religion, class, gender, and all the false divisions that exist in our world. We must show solidarity with one another, and believe we can construct another kind of world.
- [Moving to the Metropole: Migration as Revolution](https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/12/03/moving-to-the-metropole-migration-as-revolution/) - In an act that should be seen as revolutionary, Africans are moving to the centre to benefit from the resources that continue to be extracted from their continent.
- [Kenyan Youth, Economy, And Political Hope](https://www.theelephant.info/podcasts/2023/05/26/kenyan-youth-economy-and-political-hope/) - Failing to examine youth engagement trends may be a serious blind spot— and thus a threat to democracy. It is a question that merits closer examination. When youth disengage, they are often saying they don’t have a high level of confidence or trust in existing economic, political, or social entities. Nerima Wako is the Executive Director at Siasa Place.
- [Highway Robbery and Sex Toys: Plunder by the Numbers](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/03/31/highway-robbery-and-sex-toys-plunder-by-the-numbers/) - Did the Jubilee government loot $20 billion during its first term? The equivalent of 10 Eurobond issuances, the money has disappeared from the government’s loan portfolio. Technically broke by its own admission, Treasury has blamed, unconvincingly, everything from devolution to the wage bill for the state of its finances. DAVID NDII delivers another damning indictment against the pirates of pillage.
- [Stop Press: The Cost of Too Many ‘Small Sacrifices’ on East African Media Freedom](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/03/31/stop-press-the-cost-of-too-many-small-sacrifices-on-east-african-media-freedom/) - Has the fourth Estate compromised its independence? Brown envelope journalists and editors, who believe in and propound the political (and ethnic) divisions of the day now fill the newsroom. “Small sacrifices” on their part has led to self-censorship. They have today betrayed their audiences and the very pillars of democracy which they were created to uphold. MUTHONI WANYEKI delivers a prescient message against the purveyors of silence.
- [The Rasputins of the New Autocracy](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/04/02/the-rasputins-of-the-new-autocracy/) - For strongmen seeking office, the facade of competitive elections provides an important reputational asset. For the others facing real competition, procuring the services of Western spin doctors, who now deploy big data propaganda to engineer electoral consent, is now not just a cute fashion item, it is a strategic imperative. Whatever the case, the Cambridge Analyticas of this world may not demand payments upfront, says GABRIELLE LYNCH, but they almost always return for their pound of flesh.
- [Raila Odinga: Laundering the Dictatorship (And Its Sons) Since 1997](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/04/02/raila-odinga-laundering-the-dictatorship-and-its-sons-since-1997/) - An astute political entrepreneur, Raila long recognised the deeply transactional nature of Kenyan politics, and leveraged his struggle bona fides and his popular appeal for ethnic slices of the political pie. In salvaging Uhuru Kenyatta’s second term, however, has he done one trade too many?
- [Winnie Mandela and South Africa’s Unburied Past](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/04/07/winnie-mandela-and-south-africas-unburied-past/) - The passing of one of the Freedom Struggle’s most iconic figures inspired another bout of white-media vilification. Assailed for her un-silence, her refusal to compromise with the deal-makers of the new Rainbow Nation, Winnie Mandela’s life, and death, will forever remain the un-dimmed light for African and feminist struggles everywhere. By RASNA WARAH.
- [Sierra Leone’s Elections as a West African Morality Tale](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/04/07/sierra-leones-elections-as-a-west-african-morality-tale/) - On April 4, Brig (rtd) Julius Bio of the Sierra Leone People’s Party was declared the winner of the March 31 run-off with 51.8 per cent of the vote.
- [The Hour of the Rough Beast](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/04/09/the-hour-of-the-rough-beast/) - Full of passionate intensity, Mr Matiang’i has cast himself as the victim in the government’s stand-off with the courts over Mr Miguna. As a bemused Parliament watches in fascinated silence, the Jubilee administration’s contempt for the law may release anarchy upon us, with citizens choosing which laws to follow, and which not to. By MAINA KIAI.
- [Citizen Miguna](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/04/09/citizen-miguna/) - Loud and boisterous, tall and intimidating, Miguna’s militant opposition laid bare the crisis of legitimacy facing Jubilee. ‘Deportation’, that tried and tested silencing tactic of so many colonial and post-colonial regimes, was employed. But it only deepens the crisis. For many young people in the aftermath of the August elections, Miguna’s unambiguous resistance to the establishment has stirred a deep-seated radicalism that will not easily disappear. By KWAMCHETSI MAKOKHA
- [Taking a Stand, Resisting Corporate Tyranny](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/04/14/taking-a-stand-resisting-corporate-tyranny/) - Withdrawing her column after 11 years, RASNA WARAH refutes allegations made by the editors of the Nation Media Group that she, along with seven of her colleagues who resigned en masse, did it either to increase her notoriety or to score political points. To the contrary, she explains, a culture that increasingly stifled editorial independence and victimised principled voices, has pervaded a once-independent media house, threatening to muzzle free expression.
- [Our Exit Belies the Crisis in Kenyan Media](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/04/14/our-exit-belies-the-crisis-in-kenyan-media/) - Once the boardroom was willing to trade the newsroom for the next big corporate deal, a cycle of bad news set in, its grave consequences on the public discourse increasingly obvious to all. We left, says KWAMCHETSI MAKOKHA, to make a statement for the values that had once sustained a vibrant media in Kenya.
- [This Is What It’s Cost Us](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/04/14/this-is-what-its-cost-us/) - The labyrinthine character of the self-preserving and self-perpetuating incestuous commercial and political relationships that characterise the Kenyan elite is playing out like a choreographed Kabukiesque theatre composed of handshakes of and photo-ops in short scenes. This series of normalised taboos flawed Kenya’s last election has entered into a new Act of deal-making and compromises that at once leave the Kenyan audience aghast and mesmerised write MUTHONI WANYEKI
- [Greed and Delusions of Grandeur: A Primer on Dystopian Economics](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/04/14/greed-and-delusions-of-grandeur-a-primer-on-dystopian-economics/) - And so, the inevitable has happened. After five years of Jubilee’s astonishing debt-fuelled binge, Kenya is now officially in an IMF bailout programme. As the government struggles to raise Ksh 284 billion for debt repayments this year alone, the austerity knife will make deep, long cuts into jobs and budgets. With private sector investment on its knees, Jubilee’s spending jamboree has already eaten Uhuru Kenyatta’s ‘Big Four Agenda’ children. DAVID NDII gives a sobering prognosis.
- [Was There a Chemical Attack in Douma?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/04/21/was-there-a-chemical-attack-in-douma/) - As difficult, if familiar, questions emerge refuting the West’s allegations that the Assad regime used chemical warfare in eastern Ghouta, will Syria become the next Iraq - the next theatre for ‘Shock & Awe’? As Russia objects and talk of a new Cold War rocks Big Power relations, RASNA WARAH examines the logic of war by false pretences.
- [We Resigned Not to Kill the Nation, but to Save It](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/04/21/we-resigned-not-to-kill-the-nation-but-to-save-it/) - As media freedoms take a beating around the world, and a culture of authoritarianism creeps across Africa, it was important, says NIC CHEESEMAN about resigning his column in the Sunday Nation, to demonstrate solidarity with those brave colleagues forced to endure threats from the State and censorship from the Board.
- [What Happened to Africa's Left Wing?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/04/21/what-happened-to-africas-left-wing/) - Although much ink has been spilled on Africa’s dependent position in the global political-economy, and the inability of social and youth movements to take both national and global power into account, one question still remains puzzling: What’s left of the left?’ The biggest question of all. MUTHONI WANYEKI asks.
- [Africa Is One, Indivisible!](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/04/28/africa-is-one-indivisible/) - Six decades since the wind of change blew across Africa ushering independence for a cast of new states across the continent, Pan Africanism remains more relevant an idea than ever before in today’s globalised era with its multiple challenges and opportunities for the continent argues L. MUTHONI WANYEKI
- [Change the Constitution: Project Stop Bill! ](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/04/28/change-the-constitution-project-stop-bill/) - The Deputy President is today considered Kenya’s most frightening political figure. If he is indeed the motivation behind ‘the handshake’, that dynastic rapprochement between the Kenyattas and the Odingas, thwarting William Ruto’s presidential ambitions to protect the merchants of a half-century of impunity may well be the cure that is worse than the disease. By JOHN GITHONGO
- [A Quarrel in Ali Baba’s Cave](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/04/28/a-quarrel-in-ali-babas-cave/) - With the suspension of the IEBC chief, Ezra Chiloba, over questionable procurement deals, the Commission’s collapse is now all but certain. Triggered by avarice and resurrecting the ghosts of August 2017, a change of guard at the electoral body will only further delay the search for electoral justice. How then, to deal with the original sin of Executive capture? By KWAMCHETSI MAKOKHA
- [An Ode to Silence - Kenya’s Third National Language](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/05/05/an-ode-to-silence-kenyas-third-national-language/) - The blind worship of wealth obtained at any cost and the bully-display of individualism, no matter its consequences on the collective, are the markers of a public culture at the end of its neoliberal tether. We see it, but we don’t speak about it. Because speaking about it may force us to recognise it for what it is. By RASNA WARAH.
- [A Civic Action on the LAPSSET Corridor](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/05/05/a-civic-action-on-the-lapsset-corridor/) - Negotiated in secret, the deals made along East Africa’s proposed second infrastructure corridor were designed for the tenderpreneurs and their friends in Sirkal. In Lamu, an old teacher, Mohamed Ali Baddi had other ideas. Nine years ago, he and his cohorts in the Save Lamu pressure group, stood up to power. In a landmark case, the courts upheld their petition, in a case likely to recalibrate relations between communities and big infrastructure players on the winding Corridor. By L.MUTHONI WANYEKI.
- [State of the Nation: Corruption: A Brief History - 1997 to 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/05/12/state-of-the-nation-corruption-a-brief-history-1997-to-2018/) - By the twilight of the Moi era, the effects of economic plunder had restructured Kenyan society. 20 years on, under UhuRuto, corruption is better dressed, digitised and speaks finer English. No family is untouched by it. For the millennial generation, the social and economic effects of moral collapse have profound personal consequences. By JOHN GITHONGO
- [Hustler Nation: Jobless Youth, Millennial Angst and the Political Economy of Underachievement](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/05/12/hustler-nation-jobless-youth-millennial-angst-and-the-political-economy-of-underachievement/) - Millennials should be the biggest beneficiaries of the demographic dividend, that virtuous cycle of rising savings, investment, growth and lower dependency. Instead, one in four want to leave and almost 70 percent cite unemployment as their biggest challenge. Here’s why - and how we can reverse the trend. By DAVID NDII
- [The Maghreb: at the Center of Global History and Culture for Millennia ](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/05/13/the-maghreb-at-the-center-of-global-history-and-culture-for-millennia/) - History is alive around us. Deep complex relations with Sub-Saharan Africa, this rich history and a recent apparently currently truncated revolution – the so-called Arab Spring - continue to make the Maghreb still among the most fascinating and consequential regions on the African continent argues L. MUTHONI WANYEKI
- [Kenya Needs Raila Odinga’s Constitutional Reform Initiative](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/05/13/kenya-needs-raila-odingas-constitutional-reform-initiative/) - Inequality and tribal politics have been Kenya’s bain for generations and Raila Odinga’s proposals for constitutional reform – introducing a proportional representation system in Kenya would go a long way in assuaging these. The ‘handshake’ between Odinga and Kenyatta could be the start in making the important changes Kenya needs to correct some of its most persistent governance challenges, PROF. YASH PAL GHAI argues while urging caution.
- [The ‘Handshake's’ Missed Opportunities ](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/05/19/the-handshakes-missed-opportunities/) - Historically Kenya’s politics has witnessed elite pacts that typically rob the nation of its own progressive ideals. Leaders reputed as progressives sometimes abruptly abandon, for sometimes unclear motives, the very ideals they purport to champion and enter into alliances with their erstwhile political foes. This inadvertently perpetuates a dissatisfied and energised population that isn’t easily convinced that its sustained ‘hungers’ can be so easily cast aside. We should be worried, cautions L. MUTHONI WANYEKI
- [Building Bridges to Nowhere: Notes From an Insider](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/05/19/building-bridges-to-nowhere-notes-from-an-insider/) - Returning to play her part in changing Kenya after years abroad, MIRIAM ABRAHAM encountered cynicism and greed from her age mates among the professional elite. Yet it paled in comparison to her experience in an independent public body. Back in her adopted home, she reflects on the March 9 handshake, a deal sealed for the survival of a treacherous elite.
- [Sweating the (Not-So) Small Stuff: Millennials and the Informal Sector](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/05/19/sweating-the-not-so-small-stuff-millennials-and-the-informal-sector/) - In Kampala, as elsewhere on the continent, the status parade celebrating the tiniest successes costs a fortune. What if those resources were turned to more profitable pursuits? MARY SERUMAGA, musing on Millennials, the informal sector and a Twitter exchange, has an epiphany in a matatu.
- [Not Your Negro: Kanye West’s Distorted View of Race in America](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/05/26/not-your-negro-kanye-wests-distorted-view-of-race-in-america/) - In an act of gratuitous self-hatred, the American rapper’s comments on slavery open the wounds of a painful debate. In the Age of Trump, racism is now normalised, enabled even by its victims: Well-heeled Kenyans scrambling for a Ksh 1 million seat to watch a very British royal wedding on a TV screen in Nairobi; a liberal white woman looking for a black lover to erase her guilt. RASNA WARAH surveys the psyche of a very global scourge.
- [Ethnic Barons, Handshake Politics and Raila’s Accidental Legacy](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/05/26/ethnic-barons-handshake-politics-and-railas-accidental-legacy/) - Kenya’s history has, since KADU merged with KANU in 1964, been about elite pacts. Controlled behind the scenes by old and new imperial masters, these politics effectively came to an end on March 9, 2018 when Raila Odinga bequeathed Kenya with the last betrayal. Has a new leftist politics been birthed? By WILLY MUTUNGA.
- [The NYS Saga: Get Your Public Money Back](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/05/26/the-nys-saga-get-your-public-money-back/) - From the theoretical underpinnings of the National Youth Service’s as an institution aimed at enhancing national cohesion and security it has travelled a path including technical training, access to the national defence forces and more recently – has provided vital inroads for the elite to enrich itself. The stigma that now attends to the NYS is compounded every passing year meaning it has never come remotely close to fulfilling the mandate for which it was created and rebranded. It has now become, for a venal elite a powerful tool of plunder while feeding off the desperation and aspirations of Kenyan youth. Given the latest series of scandals, L. MUTHONI WANYEKI calls on Kenyan youth to rise up and get their money back.
- [Of Politics Without Romance: Bandits, Tribal Chiefs, Warlords and Political Messiahs (Or the Lack Thereof)](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/05/26/of-politics-without-romance-bandits-tribal-chiefs-warlords-and-political-messiahs-or-the-lack-thereof/) - At independence, all of post-colonial Africa promulgated democratic constitutions. In no time, all but one state had reverted to authoritarian rule. Why? In the market of public choice, it is the self-interest of the players, not their benevolence, that creates the rules. Thus the logic of the ethnic chief, the tribal baron - and the hostage voter electing them while lamenting their existence. So, wither democracy? DAVID NDII, on the calculus of power-sharing.
- [One Week in March: Was the Handshake Triggered by the IMF?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/05/26/one-week-in-march-the-political-economy-of-sovereignty/) - On March 6, Finance CS Henry Rotich writes a letter to the IMF appealing for an extension on a US$ 1.5 billion Stand-by Credit Facility, effectively putting Kenya back into an IMF austerity programme. On March 7, the IMF makes its ‘end-of-mission’ statement, detailing the terms of a bail-out package. On March 9, Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga seal a new political deal on the steps of Harambee House. Were these events a coincidence, or as has happened so often in Kenya’s history, orchestrated by the Western patrons of the Kenya State? By JOHN GITHONGO.
- [Thieves, Politics & the Brutality of Succession: The Kenyatta Legacy](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/06/02/thieves-politics-the-brutality-of-succession-the-kenyatta-legacy/) - Uhuru’s contentious second term may have opened with the announcement of his ‘Big Four Agenda’ last November; in reality, his final term has only really taken off with the mysterious March 9 ‘handshake’ with Raila Odinga. Both initiatives are personal attempts to craft a legacy - and they are being sabotaged by his administration’s severe addiction to graft, as the latest convulsion of scandals so tellingly demonstrate. How will Kenya’s fifth president be remembered? By JOHN GITHONGO.
- [Kenya: Smoke and Mirrors](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/06/02/kenya-smoke-and-mirrors/) - The aberrations around delegation, particularly as concerns public justice seem to perpetuate the criminal administration of public resources. In a seeming charade that blurs lines between the roles of the political and the justice systems, the caretaker is programmed to take the fall and make heroes of the real suspects. But although nobody is buying it, nobody is paying for it either, because nobody is making them pay argues L. MUTHONI WANYEKI.
- [Ethiopia: The Regional Giant Awakes](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/06/09/ethiopia-the-regional-giant-awakes/) - The tectonic diplomatic, economic and political shifts that have been embarked upon in Ethiopia will reverberate throughout the region as one of its giants embarks on an opening up of its society that is without precedent. This is not a time to be sceptical about Ethiopia argues L. MUTHONI WANYEKI
- [Real Railways for Road Rackets: Re-Imagining Kenya, One Year Into the SGR](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/06/09/real-railways-for-road-rackets-re-imagining-kenya-one-year-into-the-sgr/) - A bridge over the Likoni Channel? Unlikely (there’s a mafia in the ferry business). A railway line between Garissa and Isiolo? Unthinkable (we haven’t figured out how to eat from it). But we’re $6 billion in debt to an unnecessary American expressway and an overpriced Chinese railway, the logic of the first sabotaging the other. 120 years since the building of the Kenya-Uganda railway, RASNA WARAH counts the cost of missed opportunities and handshakes in Nairobi that build bridges to nowhere.
- [Democracy, Dictatorship and Development: Lessons From Malaysia and Singapore](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/06/09/democracy-dictatorship-and-development-lessons-from-malaysia-and-singapore/) - South East Asia’s Tiger economies have long triggered questions about why and how Kenya was left behind in the post-colonial maendeleo race. Instructively, it is the Tigers’ own ‘left-behind’ stories that may be illuminating - and none more so than the rivalry between Malaysia and Singapore. It is a cautionary tale with many familiar themes: tribalism and corruption, dictatorship and democracy. By DAVID NDII.
- [Kenya’s Looming Resource Curse: Dancing to Machiavelli’s Drum](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/06/09/kenyas-looming-resource-curse-dancing-to-machiavellis-drum/) - Fed a daily news diet of scandal and sensation, and the choreographed drama of minions arrested and driven off in sleek SUVs, the Kenyan public’s attention is daily diverted from the far more serious resource scams, planned and conducted by the men in the shadows. In Lamu and Turkana, the theft of billions of dollars is already underway. By MIRIAM ABRAHAM.
- [Kenyatta’s War on Corruption: Words Won’t Cut It, the Budget Is the Corruption](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/06/16/kenyattas-war-on-corruption-words-wont-cut-it-the-budget-is-the-corruption/) - Corruption in Kenya isn’t about greedy procurement officers, fiddling civil servants, crooked businessmen, shady bankers, thieving politicians. These are merely creatures of an inherently corrupt political system. The current crisis was triggered by the capture of the public finance management system by what we call ‘cartels’. Now broke and in debt from all the looting, Treasury has officially turned against the people. By JOHN GITHONGO.
- [Kenya Budget 2018/19: It’s Time for a Taxpayers Boycott](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/06/16/kenya-budget-2018-19-its-time-for-a-taxpayers-boycott/) - The Kenya Budget 2018 has drastic implications on national and regional stability, on the Kenyan economy and on Kenyan workers. Its projections contradict data shared in previous Economic Surveys; it makes patently false claims, for instance, about the decline in domestic credit, to justify doling out billions to already well-provisioned sectors, notably manufacturing. But more than anything else, it is quite simply a perfect script for more waste and theft. By L. MUTHONI WANYEKI
- [A Question of Power: Why Ethiopia’s Economic Transformation Is a Cautionary African Tale](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/06/23/a-question-of-power-why-ethiopias-economic-transformation-is-a-cautionary-african-tale/) - The arrival of reformist Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed Ali, may have only given the ruling EPRDF a stay of execution. At the heart of the political crisis is an old problem: a command economy reluctant to liberalise. State-led infrastructure expansion fuelled a decade of miraculous growth, producing five times more electricity than the country requires. The returns on this investment are not forthcoming. Exports are falling, the Birr has been devalued; a severe forex shortage is underway. Is Ethiopia’s future as Africa’s premier power exporter viable? By DAVID NDII.
- [Jubilee’s Broken Windows: A Chronology of Kenya’s Moral Collapse](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/06/23/jubilees-broken-windows-a-chronology-of-the-kenyas-moral-collapse/) - The rot set in when institutional gate-keepers failed to act ethically and courageously to prevent Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto, two ICC indictees, from running for office in 2013. Propped up by ethnically chauvinistic voters, the gates were then opened wide for the looting observed today. By RASNA WARAH.
- [A Good Man in Gomorrah: How Shame Died in Kenya, Why Seppuku Is Alive and Well in Japan](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/06/30/a-good-man-in-gomorrah-how-shame-died-in-kenya-why-seppuku-is-alive-and-well-in-japan/) - In Japan, public officials routinely resign for reasons that would frankly astonish their Kenyan counterparts. In Mauritius, the President resigned for a matter that would be considered ridiculous in Kenya, where bureaucratic cock-ups, and entrenched sense of impunity and a basic lack of decency lose lives, stoke public health emergencies and waste vast sums of money. What is wrong, says MIRIAM ABRAHAM, is the end of shame in public culture.
- [Crony Capitalism and State Capture: The Kenyatta Family Story](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/07/07/crony-capitalism-and-state-capture-the-kenyatta-family-story/) - With business interests in the heart of the Kenyan economy, how has Uhuru Kenyatta’s presidency benefited The Family? Has Kenya benefited from the Kenyattas? DAVID NDII looks at the numbers.
- [Kenya Budget 2018: Did CS Rotich Just Turn Kenya into a Tax Haven?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/07/07/kenya-budget-2018-did-cs-rotich-just-turn-kenya-into-a-tax-haven/) - Deep inside the Finance Bill 2018 is an amendment on the Tax Procedures Act, 2015. Its intent is to protect illicit money returned to Kenya from any form of scrutiny. Alongside this are plans, well underway, to turn Kenya into an ‘international financial centre’, a common euphemism for a tax haven. Amnesty measures for past corruption globally have generally failed. So why is the Jubilee administration pursuing them? By JOHN GITHONGO.
- [Revisiting the Obama Legacy](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/07/21/revisiting-the-obama-legacy/) - His whistle-stop low-key visit to Kogelo may have puzzled some, his rousing speech marking Madiba’s centenary may have been pitch-perfect, but while Obama was a class act (especially when compared to Trump), his capitulation to Wall Street, his foreign policy blunders in Libya and Syria, his drone counter-terrorism and his sustained attack on independent media and whistle-blowers raise disturbing questions about his real legacy. By RASNA WARAH.
- [SGR by the Numbers: Some Unpleasant Arithmetic](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/07/21/sgr-by-the-numbers-some-unpleasant-arithmetic/) - In the beginning was a fiction - that the Chinese railway would freight 22 million tonnes a year, and in so doing, replace the trucking business. Turns out - and this from the government’s own internal assessments - that the maximum amount of annual freight on the SGR is 8.76 million tonnes, almost a third of what was promised. Interest alone on the $3 billion debt is in US$200 million (KSh 20 billion) per year, which works out to KSh 45,000 - KSh 60,000 per container. Contrary to official assurances, explains DAVID NDII, the railway will require both State coercion and a massive public subsidy to stay in business.
- [Ethiopia: What PM Abiy’s Glasnost Means for the Region](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/07/21/ethiopia-what-pm-abiys-glasnost-means-for-the-region/) - A political miracle is currently underway in Ethiopia. Political prisoners have been freed; parties, once deemed ‘terrorist’ have been unbanned; opposition media, gagged for 25 years, can now freely operate. But it was last weekend’s historic embrace in Addis Ababa, between Eritrea’s Isias Afwerki and PM Abiy Ahmed, marking the end of a bitter 20-year war, that demonstrates the breathtaking speed and extent of Ethiopia’s perestroika - even as East Africa rushes headlong in the opposite direction. By MIRIAM ABRAHAM
- [Saba Saba and the Quiet Re-Emergence of Youth Resistance Politics](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/07/21/saba-saba-and-the-quiet-re-emergence-of-youth-resistance-politics/) - As expected, and in the wake of ‘handshake’, none of the Young Turks graced the 28th anniversary of the fight for multiparty democracy. They were elsewhere, opening a new hotel. In their absence, both literal and figurative, a new generation of urban youth, drawn from the slums and victims of the Kenyan police’s secret death squads, gathered to mark, perhaps, the re-birth of protest politics. By YASH PAL GHAI
- [You Can’t Digitise Integrity: Lessons from the Politics of the Belly](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/07/28/you-cant-digitise-integrity-lessons-from-the-politics-of-the-belly/) - No state in sub-Saharan Africa has a better organised anti-corruption infrastructure than Kenya. In a society where theft is a political strategy normalised among wananchi, Uhuru Kenyatta’s latest push against graft may end up being no more than a fig leaf to secure an uncertain legacy unless he starts to unravel sixty years worth of ossified patronage-related relationships. By JOHN GITHONGO
- [Corruption and the Two Publics: An Address That Will Not Be Given at the Anti-Corruption Convention](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/08/04/corruption-and-the-two-publics-an-ad-dress-that-will-not-be-given-at-the-anti-corruption-convention/) - For the African bourgeoisie, the problem has always been subverting the civic sphere to feed the primordial sphere - the realm of the tribe, the cosa nostra that fuels the stealing in the first place. It made sense, was maybe even transgressive, as long as taxpayers money remained a colonial resource to which you were shut out. But the mbeberu is long gone. The taxes are ours. How can we continue to argue that theft is a revolutionary act, not a zero-sum game? By DAVID NDII.
- [Faulty Towers: Why Uhuru’s Housing Plan Is Dead on Arrival](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/08/04/faulty-towers-why-uhurus-housing-plan-is-dead-on-arrival/) - 91 percent of Nairobians are tenants. WIth perhaps the best intentions - to turn slum dwellers and others into homeowners - Jubilee’s affordable low-cost housing agenda ignores a huge body of authoritative research that clearly demonstrates that for urban dwellers, home ownership at ‘home’ is eminently preferable to a house in the big city. By RASNA WARAH.
- [The Kibera Demolitions: A Response From the Constitution](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/08/04/the-kibera-demolitions-a-response-from-the-constitution/) - The constitution does not value roads more than footpaths, cars more than people, grand railways and glass office towers more than those who are forced to live and do business in mabati shacks and kiosks. The constitution shows preference for rights over law. It means it is not an adequate answer to say only “they were there illegally”. By JILL COTTRELL GHAI AND YASH PAL GHAI.
- [Chris Msando: Year 53 in the History of State Assassinations](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/08/04/chris-msando-year-53-in-the-history-of-state-assassinations/) - A year later, the IEBC official’s murder remains a mystery about which the Government of Kenya is deeply disinterested - as it is of the scores killed in 2017 in honour of electoral injustice. Like all the ones that preceded his, that succeeded his, the State, hostage to its ethos of mediocrity, purveyor of fear, enemy of truth, is deeply implicated. When will we stop silencing our best and brightest? By MIRIAM ABRAHAM.
- [How to Do the Lifestyle Audits](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/08/04/how-to-do-the-lifestyle-audits/) - If conducted transparently, the audits would breathe new life into our sinking public integrity regime and even turn the country into a shining example for the continent. What should not happen is for the President and his Deputy to be let off the hook - whatever else, let’s push for the public audit of the private lives of our state officers. By WILLY MUTUNGA.
- [Census 2019: Negotiated Fertilities, Ethnic Head Counts and the Politics of Revenue Sharing](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/08/11/census-2019-negotiated-fertilities-ethnic-head-counts-and-the-politics-of-revenue-sharing/) - If Kenyan elections are an ethnic referendum, then the census next year already stands captured by the politics of ethnic competition - the lifeblood of Kenyan siasa. The 2009 census was disputed on the same lines. Now, the Council of Governors, firing a shot across the bow, has called for a third formula for revenue sharing. Will this be motivating logic for next year’s count? By JOHN GITHONGO.
- [China’s Debt Imperialism: The Art of War by Other Means?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/08/18/chinas-debt-imperialism-the-art-of-war-by-other-means/) - The Belt and Road Initiative, China’s ambitious attempt to create a global infrastructure corridor spanning 65 countries and connecting 60 percent of the world’s population, is the biggest imperial coming-out party in modern history. Not by armed conquest but by a strategy of debt-financed diplomacy, from Sri Lanka to Montenegro, from Islamabad to Mombasa, China is deploying its $3.2 trillion credit surplus to establish a 21st century Oriental Empire, impoverishing entire continents through the allure of roads, railways and bridges.
- [Power, Aid and Impunity: How the Aid Industry Sexually Exploited the World’s Poor](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/08/18/power-aid-and-impunity-how-the-aid-industry-sexually-exploited-the-worlds-poor/) - When reports emerged that senior aid officials in OXFAM, the world’s biggest humanitarian charity, had routinely sexually exploited vulnerable young women in Haiti, it touched off a scandal that has left the Western humanitarian industry reeling. It was merely the tip of the iceberg, as a recent UK House of Commons report attests. Impunity is rife within the UN system and the NGOs associated with it. How to rein it in? By RASNA WARAH
- [Kenya and Zimbabwe: The Mirrored Histories of Settler Occupation and Autocracy That Produced Electoral Criminality](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/08/18/kenya-and-zimbabwe-the-mirrored-histories-of-settler-occupation-and-autocracy-that-produced-electoral-criminality/) - Consider Mama Sylvia Maphosa, 56, avoiding trouble the day after Zimbabwe’s election, shot in the back by a sniper - one more victim of a culture of electoral violence stretching from Harare to Nairobi, where Baby Pendo’s killers are still abroad. But the remarkable inability to manage democratic elections in Zimbabwe and Kenya, both former settler colonies with turbulent legacies of violence, land dispossession and its vexed post-colonial aftermaths, are only partly explained by their histories. For that, cue the role of Big Man politics and Big Power interests. By MIRIAM ABRAHAM
- [Saint and Scapegoat: Kofi Annan’s Mixed Legacy](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/08/25/saint-and-scapegoat-kofi-annans-mixed-legacy/) - Kenyans will always remember him for pulling us back from the brink. But in the 1990s, Kofi Annan was head of the UN’s peacekeeping operations and was therefore watchdog-in-chief of the biggest disasters in the organisation’s history: the genocide in Rwanda and violence in former Yugoslavia. Still, his tenure as UN Sec-Gen returned the UN to global relevance in an age of cynicism. A tribute, by RASNA WARAH.
- [Bulldozers Knocking down Temples and Other Distractions: Awakening the Ghosts of Jubilee’s Corruption](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/08/25/bulldozers-knocking-down-temples-and-other-distractions-awakening-the-ghosts-of-jubilees-corruption/) - Fighting corruption in a developing country where governance institutions are nascent is always a political affair. Kenyatta’s current efforts are no different but mask a more urgent crisis, itself caused in part by a culture of profligacy and theft: the looming insolvency of the Jubilee regime that has forced them into a harsh austerity programme. Add to this - giant corruption scandals, the abortive efforts to fight them, have historically had a devastating effect on key governance institutions in Kenya. By JOHN GITHONGO
- [Jubinomics and Kenya’s Debt Crisis: A Private Sector View](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/08/25/jubinomics-and-kenyas-debt-crisis-a-private-sector-view/) - Five years ago, the Jubilee administration embarked on a dangerous economic course of deficit financing, profligate spending and punitive taxation. Legitimate government suppliers in the private sector were crowded out in favour of tenderpreneurs and briefcase companies. Mysteriously, government agencies with expanded budgets were unable to pay suppliers. The result today: banks are staring at ballooning non-performing loans, tax revenues have fallen steeply and the private sector is dying a slow, painful death. By P. GITAU GITHONGO.
- [We Will Revisit: Philomena Mwilu, the Sept 1 Ruling and the Noordin Haji Show](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/09/01/we-will-revisit-philomena-mwilu-the-sept-1-ruling-and-the-noordin-haji-show/) - One year after Deputy Chief Justice, Philomena Mwilu led her colleagues in a historic ruling that nullified the August presidential election, is her arrest part of the Kenyatta State’s vendetta against a judiciary his regime still cannot control? By MIRIAM ABRAHAM
- [Legalise It: The Absurd Ban on Marijuana as a Metaphor for Maendeleo-Development](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/09/01/legalise-it-the-absurd-ban-on-marijuana-as-a-metaphor-for-maendeleo-development/) - Why marijuana remains illegal (in most of Africa) and tobacco legal speaks volumes about the contradictions of capitalism. Why native enterprises remain ‘informal’ while foreign investment is favoured and sought after by African governments is an old, insidious trick of imperialism. DAVID NDII pens an anti-development manifesto.
- [Kenya: The Politics of the Permanent Electoral Cycle](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/09/01/kenya-the-politics-of-the-permanent-electoral-cycle/) - With the 2022 succession games already well underway, a cold war in Jubilee rapidly developing into an all-out fight, could the government collapse before the next election? At least five governors will be eyeing the national political arena with interest. Will any of them run? What does all this mean for future political alliances. NIC CHEESEMAN does some scenario-setting.
- [China’s Partition of Africa: Will US Intervention Slow Down the New Silk Road?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/09/08/chinas-partition-of-africa-will-us-intervention-slow-down-the-new-silk-road/) - A letter from 16 US Senators raises questions about Chinese debt-trap imperialism - and Washington’s role (via the IMF) in bailing out distressed countries. As Africa’s leaders are offered new sweeteners by Beijing, the continent becomes the stage for a new geopolitical contest between the 21st century’s Great Powers. By MARY SERUMAGA.
- [Transitional Justice: Impunity, Project Kenya and Burying the TJRC Report](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/09/08/when-killers-become-victims-impunity-project-kenya-and-burying-the-tjrc-report/) - More than five years after it was handed over to President Uhuru Kenyatta, the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission’s final report remains buried in the engineered politics of silence and prevarication - mostly to protect key political figures who were listed as Adversely Mentioned Persons. In its absence, however, the Jubilee government’s attempts to build bridges and engineer a cohesive nation will remain a mirage. By GABRIELLE LYNCH
- [India Under Modi: Gucci Capitalism Embraces Hindu Nationalism](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/09/15/india-under-modi-gucci-capitalism-and-the-embrace-of-hindu-nationalism/) - Four years since Narendra Modi’s Hindu supremacist BJP took power, dismantling the old Congress Party elitist stranglehold on power, RASNA WARAH returns to New Delhi for the first time in 30 years, to discover, among the chattering reasporan tech and financial privileged classes, a world of globalised sophistication peppered with rightwing prejudice.
- [Between the Hammer of the Markets and the Anvil of Politics: Mr Kenyatta, in Debt Distress](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/09/15/between-the-hammer-of-the-markets-and-the-anvil-of-politics-mr-kenyatta-in-debt-distress/) - Recently released Treasury figures paint a frightening picture: not only is the government broke and struggling with declining revenues, it is now spending the equivalent of 90 percent of the wage bill on interest repayments and in July, failed to remit any monies to the Counties. Interest payments on debt are eating into recurrent expenditure, threatening to grind daily government operations to a halt. The low-down: big projects - including Uhuru Kenyatta’s legacy projects, the ‘Big Four’ Agenda and the Standard Gauge Railway - are off the table. And for Jubilee, the prospect of collapse is very real. By DAVID NDII.
- [‘You Should Have Died at Birth, Oh Dirty Delinquent Dictator’: A Poet’s Rage Against Museveni in the Bobi Wine Age](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/09/22/you-should-have-died-at-birth-oh-dirty-delinquent-dictator-a-poets-rage-against-museveni-in-the-bobi-wine-age/) - A controversial scholar attacks Museveni with her incendiary pen. She is accused of bad manners. But is she more badly behaved than a regime that peels away the skin of its people? By MARY SERUMAGA.
- [Love, Death, Sponsors and Taxes: A Survivor’s Manifesto](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/09/29/love-death-sponsors-and-taxes-a-survivors-manifesto/) - A governor, accused of murdering his mistress, calls a press conference to admit to the affair, accompanied by his wife and children. The media obsesses on the murder and celebrates a culture of transactional love. In other news, a notoriously corrupt government raises taxes to pay for its profligacy; politicians urge the citizenry to tighten their belts to pay for development. In a nation of looters and grabbers, only the mad will survive. By RASNA WARAH
- [Fiddling, while Kenya burns](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/09/29/fiddling-while-kenya-burns/) - The Jubilee administration gambled on mega-infrastructure projects to expand the economy. It has borrowed heavily to finance them. Over the past five years, it has conjured up a misleading set of economic data that paints a rosier picture than the grim reality now confronting the country. What is this fantasy in aid of? By DAVID NDII
- [Digital Citizen, Analogue Subject: The Struggle for the New Democracy in Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/10/06/digital-citizen-analogue-subject-the-struggle-for-the-new-democracy-in-africa/) - In Cameroon, the government shut down the internet for an unprecedented 230 days. In Kenya, and at least five other African countries, governments, trying to plug holes as they slide into austerity, are taxing digital activity. But they still can’t control a frontier that they don’t fully understand. By NANJALA NYABOLA
- [Uhuru at UNGA: Mortgaging the Anti-Corruption War?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/10/06/uhuru-at-unga-mortgaging-the-anti-corruption-war/) - The President’s unusual speech at the UN General Assembly, in which he declaimed against the culture of corruption within his own government, is an unprecedented escalation in defeatism. If Jubilee has thrown in the towel, what options does the citizenry have but to take matters into its own hands? By MIRIAM ABRAHAM
- [#MeToo: Memories of Sexual Assault are NOT a Figment of Women’s Imagination](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/10/06/metoo-memories-of-sexual-assault-are-not-a-figment-of-womens-imagination/) - Listening to Christine Blasey Ford’s heart-rending testimony before the US Senate triggers traumatic memories for RASNA WARAH.
- [Knowledge and Growth: What Paul Romer’s Economics Nobel Prize Says About Africa’s Infrastructure Obsession](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/10/13/knowledge-and-growth-what-paul-romers-economics-nobel-prize-says-about-africas-infrastructure-obsession/) - If knowledge and human capital are the engines of economic growth, what is the role of the foreign investment and infrastructure edifices that our governments are obsessed with? By DAVID NDII.
- [Sanitising Moi in the Age of Kenyatta, and the Heroics of Official Revisionism](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/10/20/sanitising-moi-in-the-age-of-kenyatta-and-the-heroics-of-official-revisionism/) - The revival of Moi Day marks a high point in Jubilee’s rehabilitation of the retired autocrat. Refashioned as a kindly, old gentleman who held the nation together in trying times, for Mzee Moi’s victims the latest attempt to celebrate official criminality is testimony of who exactly Mr Kenyatta sides with. By RASNA WARAH.
- [Museveni, Trump and the Arua 33: Will Uganda Suffer US Sanctions?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/10/28/museveni-trump-and-the-arua-33-will-uganda-suffer-us-sanctions/) - The brutality of UPDF troops against the opposition during the August by-election presents, in the grim aftermath of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, a compelling case for sanctions. Museveni is a valued US client and besides, could Trump care any less?
- [In Praise of Idleness: Further Reflections on Knowledge, Capital and Growth](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/10/28/in-praise-of-idleness-further-reflections-on-knowledge-capital-and-growth/) - Why is society, even those countries in which more capital could not possibly appreciably improve standards of living, still obsessed with hard work, thrift and accumulation of capital? Why are Africa’s leaders forever trooping to the West and East, fawning, groveling and whoring for capital? By DAVID NDII
- [White Saviours, Black Predators: What an NGO Tragedy Tells Us About Foreign Aid](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/11/04/white-saviours-black-predators-what-an-ngo-tragedy-tells-us-about-foreign-aid/) - Sex scandals exposed a culture of exploitation within leading NGOs, themselves deeply embedded in a White Saviour Industrial Complex. But what can we learn from the tragic story of ‘More than Me’? By RASNA WARAH.
- [Kenya: Anti-Corruption – Who Can Stop the Reggae?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/11/10/kenya-anti-corruption-who-can-stop-the-reggae/) - Borrowing a leaf from other dubious anti-corruption campaigns engineered by beleaguered African regimes, the current Noordin Haji-led clean-up has targeted allies and lieutenants of Deputy President, William Ruto. Will it work? By JOHN GITHONGO.
- [Dynasties, Hustlers and Us: Towards a Politics of Revolutionary Change](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/11/10/dynasties-hustlers-and-us-towards-a-politics-of-revolutionary-change/) - MIRIAM ABRAHAM on the epidemic of rightwing populism abroad, the new power games of the ruling elite at home, and how to nurture genuinely popular movements for the future.
- [The Politics of County Economies: Why Central Kenya MPs Are Wrong](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/11/12/the-politics-of-county-economies-why-central-kenya-mps-are-wrong/) - DAVID NDII pulls apart the old myth of Central Kenya’s economic dominance.
- [Yoweri Museveni, America’s Great Foot Soldier in East Africa, Is Desperately Seeking a Bail-Out](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/12/08/yoweri-museveni-americas-great-foot-soldier-in-east-africa-is-desperately-seeking-a-bail-out/) - The conviction in New York of Patrick Ho Chi-ping, a former Hong Kong foreign minister, for allegedly bribing President Museveni and his foreign minister, Sam Kutesa, bring to light the seamy underbelly of the US-China contest over Africa. Museveni has long been the West’s man in East Africa, who jettisoned most of Uganda’s public resources to pursue regional military adventures. But 2018 was the year Ugandans shook off their docility. Confronted by debt and protest, will the old man crack? By MARY SERUMAGA.
- [Fake It Till You Make It Nations and Bling Bling Economics: Debt, Dictatorship and Underdevelopment](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/12/08/fake-it-till-you-make-it-nations-and-bling-bling-economics-debt-dictatorship-and-underdevelopment/) - Once upon a time, financial recklessness was the preserve of resource-rich nations. Now, resource-poor African nations, their thoughtless leaders seduced into taking printed money circulated by the US Federal Reserve after the global financial crisis a decade ago, have become the new sultanates of debt distress. DAVID NDII ponders a different path.
- [70 Years After the UN’s Declaration on Human Rights, the Struggle Continues Against Poverty, War, Disease – and Whistleblowers](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/12/08/70-years-after-the-uns-declaration-on-human-rights-the-struggle-continues-against-poverty-war-disease-and-whistleblowers/) - The UN’s internal benchmark of success is the amount of money raised, not the successful execution of a programme. War and poverty remain necessary for the functioning of a system of phantom projects characterised by waste, mismanagement and corruption. And since the Iraq Oil-for-Food scandal of the early 2000s, in which billions went missing and the perpetrators scot-free, senior management has waged a silent war against its own whistleblowers. Who will police the world’s watchdog? By RASNA WARAH
- [Shopping Mall Economics: A Note on the Value of the Kenya Shilling](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2018/12/15/shopping-mall-economics-a-note-on-the-value-of-the-kenya-shilling/) - What does a recent spat between the IMF and the Central Bank’s Prof Patrick Njoroge, himself a veteran of the Fund, tell us about the state of the Kenya shilling? By DAVID NDII.
- [How to Re-Invent Money: Notes for Cryptocurrency Techno-Warriors](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/01/05/how-to-re-invent-money-notes-for-kenyas-cryptocurrency-techno-warriors/) - Ultimately money is a social contract DAVID NDII argues. And though Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies may yet emerge as transformative disrupters of human and economic relations, certain fundamentals need to be in place if they are not to go the way of other fads past. History teaches us that ultimately monetary delinquency is one of the more reliable harbingers of revolution. If government makes a mess of our money, we can always behead the King.
- [Visas, Africanists and White Privilege](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/01/05/visas-africanists-and-white-privilege/) - For more than a generation the term ‘Africanist’ has meant an implicit stranglehold by a mostly white and male cadre of academics and Western institutions on the tenor and direction of discourse on African affairs in the global academy and sectors such as conservation. RASNA WARAH argues that authentic African voices and narratives are and will continue to demonstrate the absurdity of this situation and herald the beginning of a substantive change of the old order.
- [The Rwandan Genocide, and the Sins That Can and Can’t Be Forgiven](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/01/19/the-rwandan-genocide-and-the-sins-that-can-and-cant-be-forgiven/) - Did the shooting down of a plane on 6 April 1994 trigger the Rwandan genocide? In this article, CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO shows that, far from being a spontaneous act of retaliation, the genocide in Rwanda was a premeditated strategy that was linked to events that took place at least four years earlier.
- [Disaster Porn and the White Gaze: Why the New York Times Just Won’t Respect the Dusit Attack Victims](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/01/19/disaster-porn-and-the-white-gaze-why-the-new-york-times-just-wont-respect-the-dusit-attack-victims/) - In the wake of the US newspaper’s refusal to withdraw that gruesome Dusit photograph, RASNA WARAH reflects on the logic of Western media’s enduring application of racist double standards.
- [The Size of Nations: How the Break-Up of Sudan Ruined the Economy, and Other Observations on Politico-Economic Geography](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/01/19/the-size-of-nations-how-the-break-up-of-sudan-ruined-the-economy-and-other-observations-on-politico-economic-geography/) - Facing the biggest threat to his 30-year old monopoly on power, Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir finds his regime entangled in a crisis entirely of its own making: the economic meltdown triggered by Western sanctions for the Darfur atrocities, and the loss of South Sudan, itself the result of the Islamisation of the state. The bigger question for the continent is: why do small states fare better than big ones? Here’s a clue: centralising power, especially in politically fractious Africa, is always a bad idea. By DAVID NDII.
- [Uganda Since 1986: Museveni, the World Bank and the Coming of Neoliberalism](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/01/27/uganda-since-1986-museveni-the-world-bank-and-the-coming-of-neoliberalism/) - Was Uganda’s economic miracle a donor-inspired lie? A new book mines the data and presents an alternative economic history of the Museveni era. By MARY SERUMAGA
- [Why Al-Shabaab Targets Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/02/03/why-al-shabaab-targets-kenya/) - In his first address as the group’s Kenyan operations leader, Ahmed Iman Ali declared the country darsh-al-harb - House of War. Four of the five Dusit attackers were Kenyan. Still, the reasons the group focuses on the country, and not others in the region, run contrary to conventional assumptions. By NGALA CHOME.
- [Steakholders vs Smallholders: The Political Economy of Kenya’s Sugar Industry](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/02/04/steakholders-vs-smallholders-the-political-economy-of-kenyas-sugar-industry/) - Western Kenya’s sugar industry has a productivity problem. Fortunate to have been given several reprieves by COMESA, growers, millers and policymakers have still been unable to move away from the protectionist thinking on which the industry was originally built. But time is running out. Can the industry survive without state protection? By DAVID NDII.
- [The Economic Logic of Regime Change: Venezuela Today. Uganda Tomorrow?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/02/04/the-economic-logic-of-regime-change-venezuela-today-uganda-tomorrow/) - The US is supervising a coup in Venezuela. The pretext: Nicholas Maduro’s brutality, the state’s record of widespread human rights abuses, does not wash. In August 2018, appeals for similar US intervention when Museveni brutally suppressed the youth uprising led by Bobi Wine and his colleagues, were rebuffed. In Zimbabwe, the Mnangagwa government turns on anti-austerity protestors with impunity. Why the double-standards triply-distilled? It’s all about debt, the old Washington Consensus, and the incumbent Big Man’s ability to suppress his people’s right to economic self-determination. By MARY SERUMAGA.
- [The Swan Song of Electoral Democracy: From Kenyatta to Kabila, the Rise of a New Impunity](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/02/04/the-swan-song-of-electoral-democracy-from-kenyatta-to-kabila-the-rise-of-a-new-impunity/) - The farcical rigging of the DR Congo election was only a surprise to the extent that fellow African presidents and international observer missions were not in on Joseph Kabila’s novel innovation: fixing the election for an opposition candidate. With 20 African elections set for 2019, does the threat of the Congolese example confirm a final retreat of electoral democracy on the continent? What is to be done? By MIRIAM ABRAHAM
- [Battle of Ideas: The Social Responsibility of Intellectuals in Building Counter-Hegemonies](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/02/09/battle-of-ideas-the-social-responsibility-of-intellectuals-in-building-counter-hegemonies/) - In a capitalist society divided into classes, you have broadly two types of intellectuals. There are those who produce rationalizations, justifications and mystifications to maintain and reproduce the status quo of inequality and inequity in favour of capital. Then there are those who question and challenge dominant knowledge and try to demystify and debunk hegemonic forms of knowledge and ideologies. Some go further to produce and articulate alternative forms of knowledge and ideologies to propel the struggle of the ruled, the oppressed and the downtrodden. They are involved in constructing counter-hegemonies. By ISSA SHIVJI
- [Slaying the Monster: How to Win the War on Corruption in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/02/10/slaying-the-monster-how-to-win-the-war-on-corruption-in-kenya/) - The Judiciary is under sustained assault from the Executive branch of government and buck-passing has come to distinguish Kenya’s war on corruption. Beyond the blame games, there exist opportunities for Kenyans to break the yoke of oppressive corruption and chart a new course towards a liberated future argues WILLY MUTUNGA.
- [Africa’s Beautyful Ones Were Born in the '80s, Old Men, Black and White, Have Never Been More Afraid](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/02/18/africas-beautyful-ones-were-born-in-the-80s-old-men-black-and-white-have-never-been-more-afraid/) - From Khartoum to Kampala, from Ouagadougou to Lusaka, the revolt of Africa’s youth against the ageing strongmen of the liberation era is reconfiguring society in unprecedented ways. At the core of the new revolution: the unstoppable march of urbanisation.
- [Mind the Gap: Notes on Neoliberalism and Africa in the new world disorder](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/02/18/mind-the-gap-notes-on-neoliberalism-and-africa-in-the-new-world-disorder/) - Beyond the linguistic cannibalism that characterises much of the critique against it, is neoliberalism Africa’s war?
- [Adding Fuel to Fire: Why Somalia’s Oil Could Prove to Be a Curse](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/02/18/adding-fuel-to-fire-why-somalias-oil-could-prove-to-be-a-curse/) - The decision by President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo’s government to put Somalia’s oil reserves on the predatory oil and extractive industries’ market argues RASNA WARAH could prove to be a resource curse and a recipe for disaster in a country that has suffered from more than two decades of civil war, fledgling state institutions, absence of checks and balances and which has few or no regulatory frameworks or laws in place to manage its oil in the interest of the Somali state and its people.
- [The Will of the People: Further Reflections on the Post 2017 Election Evaluation Report and a New Electoral Management Culture](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/02/19/the-will-of-the-people-further-reflections-on-the-post-2017-election-evaluation-report-and-a-new-electoral-management-culture/) - The reason our ballot papers have security features that are equal to, if not more than, our currency is because of the trust deficit among the electoral stakeholders.
- [Patriarchy, Sexual Abuse and Impunity: As the Catholic Church Confronts Its Crisis, Will the UN Follow Suit?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/03/04/patriarchy-sexual-abuse-and-impunity-as-the-catholic-church-confronts-its-crisis-will-the-un-follow-suit/) - So ingrained is the Old Boys’ network within the UN that persecuting whistleblowers is part of a culture of male privilege. Will Sec-Gen Guterres turn the tide?
- [A Place Under the Sun: Solar Energy and the Struggle for a Billion-Dollar Invisible Market](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/03/04/a-place-under-the-sun-solar-energy-and-the-struggle-for-a-billion-dollar-invisible-market/) - Unserved by policy makers whose grand energy priorities lay elsewhere, 600 million rural Africans for decades lay off-grid. When new technologies and global investment arrived, this emerging market became the site of competition and fantasy between indigenous solar technology traders and a white saviour industry backed by billionaire philanthropy investors.
- [Education, Social Mobility and the Enclave Economy: Revisiting the Kenya Scenarios Project](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/03/04/education-social-mobility-and-the-enclave-economy-revisiting-the-kenya-scenarios-project/) - Two decades ago, a group of eighty Kenyans spent the better part of two years thinking about where the country was headed. The product of this effort was Kenya at the Crossroads: Scenarios for our Future. Where is the country now and where is it headed?
- [Brexit, Little Britain and the Empire Politics of the End](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/03/11/brexit-little-britain-and-the-empire-politics-of-the-end/) - Why has the UK establishment so farcically mismanaged Brexit? The answer has eluded her politicians because it lies deep within a political system no longer fit for current purpose.
- [The Dam Has Broken. Time to Call Jubilee Plunder What It Is](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/03/18/the-dam-has-broken-time-to-call-jubilee-plunder-what-it-is/) - To budget anything from a quarter to a third of the country’s annual GDP for stealing — to then borrow it, steal it, feign outrage, compromise parliament, and diffuse public anger with ineffectual corruption investigations, again and again and again - defies corruption. It is a crime against humanity.
- [“We Have Nothing to Eat”: Further Reflections on the Famine in Turkana and the Government’s Food Security Policies](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/03/26/we-have-nothing-to-eat-further-reflections-on-the-famine-in-turkana-and-the-governments-food-security-policies/) - Famine in Turkana and other Kenyan counties may not have yet caught the attention of the international media, but domestic dissatisfaction with the famine response may force the government to alter its food security policies. The more likely scenario, however, is that this government will, like most Kenyans, pray for the rains, and hope that the food crisis will go away all on its own.
- [Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Why Kenyans Need to Pay Closer Attention to the IEBC, Census 2019 and the Building Bridges Initiative](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/03/26/beyond-smokes-and-mirrors-why-kenyans-need-to-pay-closer-attention-to-the-iebc-census-2019-and-building-the-bridges-initiative/) - If both Parliament and these nascent movements fail to forestall the efforts of the ‘system’, it is certain to use the Chebukati report, the boundary demarcation process, the population census and the Building Bridges Initiative to entrench itself and it will be interesting to see how the ‘hustlers’ respond to this direct challenge to their ‘turn to eat’.
- [Crony Capitalism and State Capture 2: Documents Reveal the Kenyatta Family’s Plans to Take over Lending to SMEs](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/04/02/crony-capitalism-and-state-capture-2-documents-reveal-the-kenyatta-familys-plans-to-take-over-lending-to-smes/) - A proposed mobile phone lending platform called Wezesha and described as a “collaborative initiative to bridge the access to credit by micro and small enterprises”, will be managed by five banks under the leadership of the Kenyatta Family-owned Commercial Bank of Africa. The Huduma Number initiative is central to the new scheme, and could explain the government’s insistence on rolling out biometric Identity Cards.
- [Why Closing Dadaab is a Bad Idea](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/04/06/why-closing-dadaab-is-a-bad-idea/) - The government’s recent announcement to close the Dadaab refugee camp, also known as Kenya’s fourth largest city, is motivated by all the wrong reasons, is a breach of international law and could, once again, very well lead to the ratcheting up of terror attacks in Kenya.
- [The Great Flying Crane Heist](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/04/06/the-great-flying-crane-heist/) - As the Museveni government rolled out plans to revive Uganda Airlines, was the president’s brother-in-law caught with his hands in the cookie jar? MARY SERUMAGA celebrates a rare victory for a vigilant public.
- [Huduma Namba: Another Tool to Oppress Kenyans?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/04/20/huduma-namba-another-tool-to-oppress-kenyans/) - Since independence the Kenyan state has decided who is an “insider” and who is an “outsider” and which territorial spaces they should occupy. This has led to the politics of exclusion and marginalization based on geographical boundaries, religion or ethnic identity. These second-class citizens are then forced to use personalised patronage networks to gain access to their rights as citizens, such as the right to an ID or a passport. Will the Huduma number foster this reality?
- [#PayInterns: Further Reflections on Millennial Angst, Crony Capitalism and the Privilege Economy](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/04/23/payinterns-further-reflections-on-millennial-angst-crony-capitalism-and-the-privilege-economy/) - As I argued in Social Mobility and the Enclave Economy, today’s university graduate is a victim of a legacy of privilege of those halcyon days of matunda ya uhuru (fruits of independence) when it was an automatic ticket to high-status public sector jobs. Every graduate was automatically employed. What Kenyans seem not to appreciate is this status was not merited, and had no relationship whatsoever with the economic value of university graduates. It was a case of replacing a white with black privilege.
- [Real or “Portal” Growth: Why Businesses Are Going Bust and People Are Struggling to Make Ends Meet as the Numbers Say the Economy Is Roaring like an Asian Tiger](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/05/07/real-or-portal-growth-why-businesses-are-going-bust-and-people-are-struggling-to-make-ends-meet-as-the-numbers-say-the-economy-is-roaring-like-an-asian-tiger/) - The economies may be growing, but because unemployment and underemployment are also rising, the incomes of those that are earning are supporting more people. People are not feeling the growth. Instead, they are feeling the financial burden of adult children who were expected to be contributing to family upkeep.
- [Cloak-And-Dagger Intrigues: An Insider’s Account of Why the TJRC Report Was Delayed](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/05/07/cloak-and-dagger-intrigues-an-insiders-account-of-why-the-tjrc-report-was-delayed/) - In his book, The Kenyan TJRC: An Outsider’s View from the Inside, Prof. Ronald C. Slye reveals the intrigues that intensified near the date of the TJRC report release in May 2013 and how various top State House mandarins sought to influence the contents of the report.
- [An Injustice in Kenya’s History: The TJRC Report Six Years On](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/05/21/an-injustice-in-kenyas-history-the-tjrc-report-six-years-on/) - Six years later, writes GABRIELLE LYNCH, little progress has been made on Kenya’s Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) despite on the gross injustices and abuses that the report outlines.
- [In Whose Interest? Reflecting on the High Court Ruling Against John Githongo](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/05/27/in-whose-interest-reflecting-on-the-high-court-ruling-against-john-githongo/) - The core issue in the Murungaru v Githongo case remains whether the revelations of the Anglo Leasing scandal – which was not just exposed in the Nation newspaper that published the Githongo Dossier in 2006, but was also extensively documented by the British journalist Michela Wrong in her book, It’s Our Turn to Eat were in the public interest.
- [Out of the Box Thinking or Garbage Can Policy: Is Jubilee’s Government Protectionism and Economic Controls Good for the Country?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/06/11/out-of-the-box-thinking-or-garbage-can-policy-is-jubilees-government-protectionism-and-economic-controls-good-for-the-country/) - Uhuru Kenyatta’s grand scheme, the Big Four manufacturing agenda, is predicated on the restoration of protectionism and economic controls. But as DAVID NDII argues import licensing and exchange controls - the old tools of the trade - are no longer available, hence the “out of the box” solutions of the Jubilee government.
- [India Election 2019: Modi’s Victory Signals Growing Far Right Intolerance in India and Around the World](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/06/11/india-election-2019-modis-victory-signals-growing-far-right-intolerance-in-india-and-around-the-world/) - Narendra Modi epitomises the kind of neo-fascist right-wing leadership that is sweeping across some parts of Europe, the United States, South America, Asia, and even Africa, where the likes of Donald Trump, Victor Orban, Benjamin Netanyahu, Rodrigo Duterte and Jair Bolsonaro are imposing intolerant, highly regressive policies that polarise populations and create false “them-versus-us” narratives.
- [Kenya’s 2019/2020 Budget: A Predatory Scheme Designed for the Hustlers in Government](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/06/27/kenyas-2019-2020-budget-a-predatory-scheme-designed-for-the-hustlers-in-government/) - RASNA WARAH argues that the 2019/2020 and other budgets prepared by the Jubilee government are essentially predatory and borrow heavily from the British colonialists’ playbook, which sought to enslave the indigenous population by taxing it. The tax regime is in essence in the service of foreign (previously Western, but now increasingly Chinese) capital and local elites.
- [Memo to Uhuru Kenyatta: Finish up and Go](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/06/28/memo-to-uhuru-kenyatta-finish-up-and-go/) - With nothing but political blunders and policy failures behind him, there is only one thing left that Uhuru Kenyatta can do for Kenya, and that is this. Mr Uhuru Kenyatta, please do us and yourself a big favour; you have neither the mandate nor the wherewithal to shape our political destiny. Just finish up and go.
- [Limuru III: SabaSaba@29 - A Call to Action](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/07/15/limuru-iii-sabasaba29-a-call-to-action/) - Our elites should never be politically underestimated as they have a genius for lies, distractions, diversions, and divisions. They have mastered the art of manipulating the divisions of class, clan, gender, generation, religion, region, occupation, race, and, recently, even the English Premier League. Politics of division must be replaced by politics of humanity, national unity, and inclusion. Above all, we must breathe life into our constitution and our vision of how our politics is to be organised.
- [Saving Lamu: How a Campaign for Environmental Justice Was Fought](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/07/15/saving-lamu-how-a-campaign-for-environmental-justice-was-fought/) - The campaign against a coal-fired plant in Lamu is a good example of how a small, voiceless community can be mobilised to fight powerful and influential forces intent on destroying the environment. RASNA WARAH explores key aspects of the campaign and the landmark ruling that has inspired environmentalists and social justice advocates worldwide.
- [Crony Capitalism and State Capture 3: Uhuru Kenyatta’s Manufacturing Agenda](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/07/20/crony-capitalism-and-state-capture-3-uhuru-kenyattas-manufacturing-agenda/) - Uhuru Kenyatta’s manufacturing agenda argues DAVID NDII is a protectionism policy regime that puts tariff and other barriers on imports that compete with domestically produced goods. But as he illustrates, a protected competitive industry is a contradiction.
- [Why I’m No Longer Talking to Kikuyus About Tribe](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/07/20/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-kikuyus-about-tribe/) - In many ways, Kikuyu privilege is akin to white or male privilege in that most Kikuyus are not even aware of it. Here in Kenya, argues RASNA WARAH some people have become so emotionally exhausted that they have stopped talking because a section of the populace are afraid to acknowledge that a problem exists – a problem that could be described as “Kikuyu privilege”, the result of decades of bad politics that emphasised ethnic identity.
- [Boys in Blue: A Growing Case for Police Reform](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/07/30/boys-in-blue-a-growing-case-for-police-reform/) - The anger fostered by the response of the police to protests in 2017 has not been addressed by the “handshake”. There is a growing sense amongst many Kenyans that they do not enjoy equal rights as laid down in the 2010 Constitution and are instead at an almost daily risk of some form of injustice.
- [Letter from Dar: Global Development Work and Its Local Missteps](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/07/30/letter-from-dar-global-development-work-and-its-local-missteps/) - Global Development organisations need to prove to the locals that their global agenda can be translated to local realities. For what is the use of having Engender Health for a better life when neighboring restaurants serve food next to ditchwater? Or of having USAID’s data for development next to underdeveloped or blocked ditches?
- [Dear Chris Msando: Letters from His Wife and Children](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/07/30/dear-chris-msando-letters-from-his-wife-and-children/) - Mr Christopher Msando was the slain Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission ICT manager. Two years after his death, his wife and children pay a tribute to him.
- [In Memory of Chris Msando: Murder Most Foul](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/07/30/in-memory-of-chris-msando-murder-most-foul/) - Mr Christopher Msando was the slain Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission ICT manager, who was assassinated days before the disputed August 8 2017 elections.
- [War Games: The Truth behind the Government’s Sudden Attack on the Sports Betting Industry](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/08/06/war-games-the-truth-behind-the-governments-sudden-attack-on-the-sports-betting-industry/) - It thus appears that the assault on the betting companies, far from being a general money-laundering investigation, is actually part of the weaponisation of anti-corruption to take down the said well-moneyed senior politician.
- [Khashoggi Murder: Is There a Double Standard at the United Nations?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/08/06/khashoggi-murder-is-there-a-double-standard-at-the-united-nations/) - The UN’s silence on Khashoggi’s much-publicised murder was surprising for many because his killing had created shockwaves globally, not only because it had occurred inside an embassy but also it had apparently been carried out in a cruel medieval manner that entailed torture and dismembering of body parts.
- [Sleeping with the Enemy: Are KDF and Humanitarian Agencies Doing Business with Al Shabaab?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/08/21/sleeping-with-the-enemy-are-kdf-and-humanitarian-agencies-doing-business-with-al-shabaab/) - Kenya’s bid to have Al Shabaab listed as a terrorist organisation by the UN Security Council has raised several questions about the timing of the proposal and about whether it is a genuine attempt to deal with the terrorist threat emanating from Somalia writes RASNA WARAH.
- [We Are Not Overrepresented, It’s the Imperial Presidency That’s Killing Us](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/08/21/we-are-not-overrepresented-its-the-imperial-presidency-thats-killing-us/) - On what basis are we to believe that if we change the rules, the new rules will survive the next power struggle? No amount of constitutional tinkering can cure impunity.
- [When Numbers Lie: Public Trust, Political Legitimacy and the 2019 Census](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/09/02/when-numbers-lie-public-trust-political-legitimacy-and-the-2019-census/) - The one thing we are sure about, however, is that regardless of the outcome, our confidence in these state-captured institutions is at a historic low. They will have to perform miracles to convince us of the veracity and legitimacy of the population numbers they shall announce, the constituencies they shall demarcate and the voters they shall register.
- [Africa and Palestine: A Noble Legacy That Must Never Be Forgotten](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/09/03/africa-and-palestine-a-noble-legacy-that-must-never-be-forgotten/) - Today’s generation of African leaders should not deviate from that the solidarity between Africa and Palestine. Indeed, writes RAMZY BAROUD If they betray it, they betray themselves, along with the righteous struggles of their own peoples.
- [A New Despotism in the Era of Surveillance Capitalism: A Reflection on Census 2019](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/09/11/a-new-despotism-in-the-era-of-surveillance-capitalism-a-reflection-on-census-2019/) - In the creeping securocratisation of every sphere of the State, the incessant threats and arbitrary orders, the renewed quest for that elusive all-encompassing kipande, and even the arbitrary assignment of identity on citizens, Montesquieu would see a marked deficiency of love for virtue, the requisite principle for a democratic republic.
- [South Africa: Xenophobia Is in Fact Afrophobia, Call It What It Is](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/09/11/south-africa-xenophobia-is-in-fact-afrophobia-call-it-what-it-is/) - Anti-African violence in South Africa is fuelled by exclusion, poverty and rampant unemployment. This isn’t black-on-black violence. This is poor-on-poor violence.
- [Skilling Uganda’s Youth: How a Culture of Begging Is Being Institutionalised](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/09/26/skilling-ugandas-youth-how-a-culture-of-begging-is-being-institutionalised/) - From the point of view of the youth, it makes perfect sense to line up by the roadside and wait for money to be distributed. And it is a minor thing to wear yellow and parrot the praises of the National Resistance Movement. In return it doesn’t even matter that, owing to a lack of entrepreneurial, management and technical skills, the money will soon be lost because it is a grant.
- [State Capture Unlimited: The Intrigues Inside the Battle to Control Mombasa’s Second Container Terminal](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/09/26/state-capture-unlimited-the-intrigues-inside-the-battle-to-control-mombasas-second-container-terminal/) - Even without a pecuniary interest in the KNSL transaction, a seamless operation that transfers all the freight logistics to Naivasha is sufficient motivation for Kenyatta to pursue the capture of the terminal as aggressively as he is doing. We may also have our answer as to why the Government is not enticing MSC to Lamu. Kenyatta does not own land there.
- [Charities, Voluntourism and Child Abuse: Is There a Link?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/10/10/charities-voluntourism-and-child-abuse-is-there-a-link/) - The recent case of children dying at a feeding centre in Uganda has once again highlighted the issue of whether “voluntourists” and children’s charities operating in Africa are doing more harm than good. RASNA WARAH explains why volunteers and non-profits working in poor countries need to be monitored and vetted more closely.
- [Should Africa’s Tallest Skyscraper Be Built in a Kenyan Village?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/10/17/should-africas-tallest-skyscraper-be-built-in-a-kenyan-village/) - The proposed construction of a 61-storey building in Watamu has generated both hopes and fears among local residents, who view the project as either a white elephant with serious environmental consequences or a godsend that will bring much-needed jobs and prosperity to the coastal area. RASNA WARAH examines the pros and cons of this multi-million-dollar project.
- [Who Is Afraid of Commuter Ride-Hailing Apps? Tech Meets Matatu, and Why Nairobi Does Not Need State-Run Public Transport](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/10/17/who-is-afraid-of-commuter-ride-hailing-apps-tech-meets-matatu-and-why-nairobi-does-not-need-state-run-public-transport/) - DAVID NDII explores the disruptive power of ride-hailing apps on public transportation in Nairobi and why both the government and the matatu industry should be embracing the commuter ride-hailing apps instead of fighting them.
- [Why Directive on SGR Cargo Could Kill Kenya’s Small Towns and Cities](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/11/02/why-directive-on-sgr-cargo-could-kill-kenyas-small-towns-and-cities/) - RASNA WARAH explains why the decision to force importers to use rail transport could retard urban growth along the Mombasa-Nairobi highway, entrenching Nairobi’s position as the nerve centre of economic activity in the country.
- [From Game Changer to Railway to Nowhere: The Rise and Fall of Lunatic Line 2.0](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/11/02/from-game-changer-to-railway-to-nowhere-the-rise-and-fall-of-lunatic-line-2-0/) - It goes without saying that the recently commissioned 120-kilometre Nairobi-Naivasha extension of the new railway line ending at Suswa is an economic puzzle, as the bulk of the cargo that comes through the port of Mombasa is either destined for Nairobi, or is in transit to Uganda and beyond. It is a misguided “if we build they will come” scheme since Suswa offers none of the advantages associated with a viable location for an industrial park.
- [Elite Feuds: Are the SGR Protesters in Mombasa Pawns in a Larger Battle for Control of Port Services?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/11/09/elite-feuds-are-the-sgr-protesters-in-mombasa-pawns-in-a-larger-battle-for-control-of-port-services/) - The evidence suggests that the protestors in Mombasa are actually crying for the scraps of what was already a broken system that benefitted the elite few. If the protests against the directive to transport all cargo on the SGR are successful (an unlikely outcome), this will result in the protection of businesses that have long enjoyed near-monopoly advantages at the expense of the wider public interest in Mombasa.
- [Trump, Ukraine, and the Whistleblower: Why Reporting Wrongdoing Remains a Perilous Activity](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/11/14/trump-ukraine-and-the-whistleblower-why-reporting-wrongdoing-remains-a-perilous-activity/) - The American media and Democrats have hailed the anonymous whistleblower who reported the US president’s shady dealings with his counterpart in Ukraine as a hero. However, most whistleblowers are not so fortunate; the financial and emotional price they pay is extremely high, and can even lead to collateral damage.
- [What is the Sinister Motive Behind the Mwende Mwinzi Probe?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/11/14/what-is-the-sinister-motive-behind-the-mwende-mwinzi-probe/) - Mwende Mwinzi’s appointment as Kenya’s Ambassador to South Korea is fully within the law as Ambassadors and High Commissioners are not considered state officials. Under Article 78 (3) (b) of Chapter 6 of the Constitution on Leadership and Integrity, she is qualified as a Kenyan whose dual nationality is linked to the laws of another nation.
- [The Broader Implications of the Kibra By-Election](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/11/21/the-broader-implications-of-the-kibra-by-election/) - Despite the positive outcomes of the recent Kibra parliamentary by-election, the poll confirmed that the country is just as polarised as it was before the 2018 “handshake”. The rabid political rhetoric, the ethnic mobilisation, the violence and allegations of bribery, were not any different from those witnessed during the 2017 election. Kibra laid bare the fractures within the ruling Jubilee Party and confirmed the collapse of NASA. Rather than bridging the political differences in the country, the “handshake” has deepened them. This does not augur well for the country, particularly in these difficult economic times.
- [Data Protection in the Age of Huduma Namba: Who Will Benefit?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/11/29/data-protection-in-the-age-of-huduma-namba-who-will-benefit/) - In a country where digital technology and personal data are routinely abused by unscrupulous officials and politicians, what kind of confidentiality can Kenyans expect from the new law on data protection? Is the law a genuine attempt at protecting Kenyans’ privacy, or is it for the benefit of credit card companies and banks associated with the Huduma Namba?
- [BBI: From "We the People" to "Fix the People"](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/12/05/bbi-from-we-the-people-to-fix-the-people/) - The Building Bridges Initiative is an ill-disguised attempt at social engineering, a “fix the people” approach to Kenya’s problems designed to veil ours eyes from the massive looting and the privatisation of public institutions. It is meant to dissuade us from expecting social and public solutions to our challenges as a country and to instead shoulder the blame and provide for ourselves the solutions to our problems. It is a declaration of war by the political class against the people of Kenya.
- [“We Have Failed Kenyans”: Lamentations for a Broken Nation](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/12/06/we-have-failed-kenyans-lamentations-for-a-broken-nation/) - When a seasoned Senator tells young people not to look to the National Assembly, the Executive or the Judiciary for answers to the spiraling debt, the closure of businesses, the extra-judicial killings of young people and the run-away unemployment, where else should they look?
- [An IMF Straightjacket Is a Fitting End to Jubilee’s Reign of Hubris, Blunder, Plunder, Squander and Abracadabra](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/12/06/an-imf-straightjacket-is-a-fitting-end-to-jubilees-reign-of-hubris-blunder-plunder-squander-and-abracadabra/) - Six years of fiscal profligacy have finally caught up with the Jubilee administration. Money is short, it now admits, and the begging bowl is out. The IMF has been in town and will be back again. But the cure could be worse than the disease as Jubilee prepares to don an IMF straightjacket for the remainder of its term.
- [No Place for Women: India’s Female-unfriendly Cities](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/12/13/no-place-for-women-indias-female-unfriendly-cities/) - Rising rape cases in Indian cities have sparked women’s movements that are claiming public spaces for themselves and defying a culture that says that a woman’s place is in the home. RASNA WARAH examines how gender-sensitive urban planning and design can deter potential rapists.
- [From the Handshake to the BBI Report, Hope to Disillusionment: My Side of the Story](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2019/12/13/from-the-handshake-to-the-bbi-report-hope-to-disillusionment-my-side-of-the-story/) - During the political standoff that followed the 2017 presidential election, the National Super Alliance (NASA) espoused a road map that would lead to a political settlement through the formation of a transitional government that would have spearheaded the process of building a national consensus on political reforms. But in place of a Jubilee-NASA institutional engagement came the Handshake, a commitment by Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga in their personal capacities, which has culminated in the recently released Building Bridges Initiative Report, an underwhelming document that underscores the failure of the two principals to deliver the new political dispensation they had promised.
- [No Country for Muslims? Modi Underestimated Indians’ Tolerance for Diversity](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/01/10/no-country-for-muslims-modi-underestimated-indians-tolerance-for-diversity/) - What India’s Prime Minister forgets – and what the mass protests in Indian cities demonstrate – is that India’s secularist democracy has survived more than 70 years because Indians decided that religion was too personal and too precious to be left to the whims of the state.
- [Of Tigers, Debt Merchants and 2020 Vision](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/01/10/of-tigers-debt-merchants-and-2020-vision/) - The former president of the African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuka, has dismissed as “nonsensical” any suggestion that Africa may have over-borrowed, saying instead that with better debt management and higher domestic revenue mobilisation, the continent can take on more debt. But Kaberuka fails to make the link between the increased borrowing and the revenue problem.
- [South Sudan: An African Tragedy where Looting is the Name of the Game](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/01/23/south-sudan-an-african-tragedy-where-looting-is-the-name-of-the-game/) - A never-ending cycle of killing and looting has left South Sudan fragile and impoverished. Moreover, a kleptocratic class of politicians and generals at the top with deep ties to “international partners” has been benefitting from the conflict, which could explain why Africa’s youngest nation remains in a permanent state of political instability.
- [Kenya and Corruption: The Temporary End of Truth](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/01/30/kenya-and-corruption-the-temporary-end-of-truth/) - A type of politician, blunt and openly estranged from the truth—part performer and often entertainer—has become more influential in public affairs since 2013. This is a global phenomenon as the neo-liberal economic model fails vast swathes of the citizenry who have come to the realisation that companies, or cartels masquerading as companies, are today far more powerful than governments, judiciaries, parliaments and other governance institutions.
- [The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Why Ruto and Raila Should Drop out of 2022 Race](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/01/31/the-devil-and-the-deep-blue-sea-why-ruto-and-raila-should-drop-out-of-2022-race/) - For the sake of Kenya, both Raila Odinga and William Ruto should step aside and let someone who has a clean governance record vie for the top leadership in 2022. This would make the Uhuru succession politics less toxic and less polarised. It would also, hopefully, usher in much-needed reforms.
- [The Economic Cost of Conflict of Interest: The Kenyatta Dairy Industry Case](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/01/30/the-economic-cost-of-conflict-of-interest-the-kenyatta-dairy-industry-case/) - The main talking point of his speech to the nation two weeks ago was Kenyatta’s directive asking the national Treasury to release Sh500 million to the New Kenya Co-operative Creameries (New KCC) to purchase milk from farmers, and another Sh575 million to revamp two of its processing plants in Kenyatta’s central Kenya political base. The dairy farmers’ woes are blamed on cheap milk imports from Uganda but why the Kenyan market is attracting Ugandan milk has little to do with Uganda’s demand-supply balance, and everything to do with Kenya’s consumer price which is a reflection of the market power exercised by Brookside.
- [How Not to Run a Country: Further Reflections on Moi’s Presidency](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/02/13/how-not-to-run-a-country-further-reflections-on-mois-presidency/) - Moi’s misrule neutered parliament, turned the courts into his puppets, and the bureaucracy into his handmaid but if his life leaves behind a lesson, it is in the codification of the Kenyan constitution so that the country need never again be subject to the whims of one person.
- [Where Is the BBI Headed?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/02/21/where-is-the-bbi-headed/) - Following the March 2018 handshake between Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga, a re-setting of a dangerous trend in Kenya is occurring, whose origins can be traced back to the aftermath of the 2007-08 post-election violence. Kenyans have become accustomed to an increasingly irritable and angry president who demands, but is not able to command, unfettered loyalty. But the climate of intolerance that the president is creating is the public face of a deeper and much more insidious plan, an attempt at remarshalling the forces that have preserved the political status-quo in Kenya since independence, at the service of which is the Building Bridges Initiative.
- [Turnover Tax: Days of Extortion, Days of Revolt](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/02/21/turnover-tax-days-of-extortion-days-of-revolt/) - Informal micro and small businesses are being unfairly targeted by a new tax that is considered by many as extortionist and punitive. How can the government morally justify a tax on a sector it has done little to assist? Will the new tax force these businesses to close down or to revolt?
- [Kenya Security Council Bid: David Fighting Goliath, Says Djibouti](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/02/21/kenya-security-council-bid-david-fighting-goliath-says-djibouti/) - Although endorsed by the African Union, Kenya’s candidacy for one of the non-permanent United Nations Security Council seats reserved for Africa has been challenged by Djibouti and there are no guarantees that the country will get the votes of two-thirds of the Council members in the forthcoming June elections. With both countries arguing that they are the voice of Africa, Kenya will need to defend its track record on matters of international peace and security and address concerns about its reliability as an ally, among other grievances against it. Otherwise, Nairobi may be in for a surprise come June.
- [Erased: Get Over It Vanessa, It’s a White Man’s World](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/02/27/erased-get-over-it-vanessa-its-a-white-mans-world/) - Instead of seeking fame by association with white people, Nakate must run her campaign from the continent of Africa and create a groundswell of African climate activists who can challenge the orthodoxy that Africans are not capable of addressing issues that affect them.
- [People Power in the 2010 Constitution: A Reality or an Illusion?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/03/06/people-power-in-the-2010-constitution-a-reality-or-an-illusion/) - The 2010 Constitution of Kenya is among the most progressive constitutions in the world that guarantees basic human rights and gives citizens enormous powers to determine how they are to be governed. Yet, ten years after its promulgation, the Constitution has done little to alter the status quo, thanks to a political leadership that is committed to subverting the Constitution’s core values and principles.
- [Manufacturing Non-Dissent: Is the Media in Kenya Really Free?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/03/13/manufacturing-non-dissent-is-the-media-in-kenya-really-free/) - Despite having a reputation of being the freest in Africa, the mainstream media in Kenya remains hostage to state and corporate interests that determine what can and what cannot be published.
- [Silver Lining in the Coronavirus Pandemic](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/03/20/silver-lining-in-the-coronavirus-pandemic/) - Coronavirus is an equal opportunity predator that has turned the political, social and economic equation upside down. But this global health crisis also provides us with the opportunity to put an end to the rising racism and fascism, unbridled capitalism and militarisation, xenophobia and wanton destruction of the environment.
- [Thoughts on a Pandemic, Geoeconomics and Africa’s Urban Sociology](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/03/25/thoughts-on-a-pandemic-geoeconomics-and-africas-urban-sociology/) - The global economic shock triggered by the coronavirus pandemic is unprecedented in scale and severity. How will African governments survive this financial crisis, given that many are heavily indebted and poorly equipped to deal with a pandemic of this nature? What kind of economic stimulus measures are required to ensure that people don’t sink further into poverty?
- [Lockdown: Flying Blind in the Season of Coronavirus](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/04/01/lockdown-flying-blind-in-the-season-of-coronavirus/) - The government’s contingency plan for tackling the coronavirus is not clear and so far appears to focus on surveillance and containing the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. It needs to invest in the clinical set-up beyond capacity but the supply of oxygen ventilators and other materials is likely to be complicated by the greatly increased demand in the global market.
- [Controlling COVID-19: Lessons from East Asia](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/04/03/controlling-covid-19-lessons-from-east-asia/) - As authorities the world over restrict the movements of their populations, and governments benchmark their responses on the worst affected regions, there are lessons to be learnt from South Korea which has eschewed lockdowns in favour of early detection through mass testing, contact tracing and treatment.
- [Slaying the Giant: An Epidemiologist’s Perspective on How Kenya Can Tackle COVID-19](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/04/04/slaying-the-giant-an-epidemiologists-perspective-on-how-kenya-can-tackle-covid-19/) - There hasn’t been a pandemic control that has succeeded without social capital. How Kenya and Africa will deal with this pandemic will squarely depend on the strength, resilience and adaptability of our social capital to weather the storm.
- [Tackling Corona: The Need for a People-Driven Response](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/04/08/tackling-corona-the-need-for-a-people-driven-response/) - African governments need to adopt a “whole-of-society approach” to successfully face the threat posed by COVID-19. They need to recognise that involving non-governmental actors in the formulation, as well as in the implementation, of policies to address the pandemic, need not be perceived as a threat to their own legitimacy.
- [Notes on Leviathan, the Invisible Hand and Moral Sentiment in the Time of Coronavirus](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/04/10/notes-on-leviathan-the-invisible-hand-and-moral-sentiment-in-the-time-of-coronavirus/) - The government does not understand the magnitude of the response that is required. There is no appreciation that the key challenge of responding to the COVID-19 economic shock is policy instruments, not funding. And that is a problem.
- [Will Nothing – Not Even a Deadly Virus – Stop the Police From Brutalising Kenyans?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/04/10/will-nothing-not-even-a-deadly-virus-stop-the-police-from-brutalising-kenyans/) - The imposition of a curfew in Kenya in response to COVID-19 has been accompanied by increasing levels of violence against civilians by the police. This has, once again, underscored how poorly trained Kenya’s police “service” is and why it is the most dreaded institution in the country.
- [Fighting COVID-19: What Kenya Can Learn From Ghana](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/04/11/fighting-covid-19-what-kenya-can-learn-from-ghana/) - The difference lies in this: that as Mr. Kenyatta makes all the right moral pitches, Mr. Akufo-Addo canvasses all the right responses. If only Mr. Kenyatta would reach for the phone and give President Akufo-Addo a call.
- [Memo to #UpperDeckPeopleKE: Coronavirus Economic Shock Is Coming and It Has Your Names on It](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/04/16/memo-to-upperdeckpeopleke-coronavirus-economic-shock-is-coming-and-it-has-your-names-on-it/) - In a prolonged crisis, formal establishment workers are more exposed to job losses and financial insecurity than those in the micro and small enterprise informal sector. The jua kali economy is better cushioned and, as counter-intuitive as it may sound, the “job insecure” jua kali workers are more economically secure.
- [How Kenya’s Anti-Intellectual Culture Impacts Public Health Policies](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/04/16/how-kenyas-anti-intellectual-culture-impacts-public-health-policies/) - If the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed anything, it is that health is a multi-faceted sector that requires the cooperation of people with specialisation in the humanities, social sciences, life sciences and physical sciences. In other words, every discipline has to be involved in the discussions, knowledge and politics of health.
- [Elephant Series: Journaling a Pandemic](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/04/22/elephant-series-journaling-a-pandemic/) - In the face of an onslaught of harrowing and, occasionally, life-affirming news, we reached out to our storytellers and editors to reflect on the times. The following is a journal bearing witness and foretelling the effects of an unfolding pandemic seen through African eyes.
- [The Undeclared War in Somalia](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/04/23/the-undeclared-war-in-somalia/) - The United States’ military operations in Somalia are not well known because they are carried out secretly or via proxy armies. These operations have not been hampered by the coronavirus pandemic; on the contrary, they seem to have accelerated.
- [Out of the Ruins and Rubble: COVID-19 and the Fightback in Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/04/23/out-of-the-ruins-and-rubble-covid-19-and-the-fightback-in-africa/) - In an update on the COVID-19 pandemic across Africa, Heike Becker, Femi Aborisade and Issa Shivji report on the reaction of governments, the struggles of poor communities and the urgency of building a new world out of the ruins of the old.
- [Locating African Agency in Africa-China Relations](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/04/30/locating-african-agency-in-africa-china-relations/) - Relationships between African countries and China are more complex than they appear in the media and academia.
- [Trump Is Wrong, but China Cannot Escape Blame for the Pandemic](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/04/30/trump-is-wrong-but-china-cannot-escape-blame-for-the-pandemic/) - President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw funding from WHO underscores how powerful UN member states play politics with people’s lives. But by withholding information that paints them in a bad light, influential countries like China are also endangering the world’s health.
- [Remembering Thandika, Africa’s Foremost Social Scientist](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/05/07/remembering-thandika-africas-foremost-social-scientist/) - KARUTI KANYINGA pays tribute to his friend and mentor, Thandika Mkandawire, who left an indelible mark on scholarship focusing on Africa’s growth and development.
- [Humour in a Time of Coronavirus](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/05/07/humour-in-a-time-of-coronavirus/) - Laughter is cathartic, a coping mechanism in the midst of crisis. But humour also has the potential to catalyse analysis and mobilise diverse publics around socio-economic and political concerns.
- [How COVID-19 Reveals the Paradoxes of Neoliberal Logic](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/05/09/how-covid-19-reveals-the-paradoxes-of-neoliberal-logic/) - Pandemics force even neoliberal thinkers to admit that government action and collective solidarity are what is urgently needed.
- [Trapped! The Plight of Domestic Workers in Lebanon](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/05/09/trapped-the-plight-of-domestic-workers-in-lebanon/) - A severe economic crisis followed by the COVID-19 pandemic have had a deep impact on African domestic workers living and working in Lebanon. Some homeless female workers from Sierra Leone have found refuge in shelters, but resources to sustain them are drying up.
- [Fanon’s Project Remains Unfinished—and Still Relevant Today](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/05/15/fanons-project-remains-unfinished-and-still-relevant-today/) - Frantz Fanon remains vital not only for his bracing anti-racism and anti-colonialism, but equally for the less-recognized, empathetic politics of solidarity he cultivated and exemplified.
- [Returning the Gaze: How COVID-19 Is Inverting Colonial Imaginaries](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/05/15/returning-the-gaze-how-covid-19-is-inverting-colonial-imaginaries/) - COVID-19 spreads from Europe to Africa, inverting colonial imaginaries of African disease and challenging inherited hierarchies.
- [What COVID-19 Has Revealed About Our Callous and Clueless Leaders](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/05/15/what-covid-19-has-revealed-about-our-callous-and-clueless-leaders/) - The insensitivity displayed by the Kenyan government during the COVID-19 lockdown has confirmed that the country’s leaders are oblivious to the challenges facing ordinary citizens. This don’t-care attitude could, however, give rise to demands for a more progressive and caring leadership.
- [Not Yet Uhuru: Why Postcolonialism Doesn’t Exist in France](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/05/23/not-yet-uhuru-why-postcolonialism-doesnt-exist-in-france/) - It is no longer shocking to witness the prejudice among French institutions and intelligentsia against Africa and Africans.
- [My Black Is (Not) Beautiful: The Complex History of Skin Lighteners in Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/05/29/my-black-is-not-beautiful-the-complex-history-of-skin-lighteners-in-africa/) - As in other parts of the world colonised by European powers, the politics of skin colour in South Africa have been importantly shaped by the history of white supremacy and institutions of racial slavery, colonialism, and segregation.
- [Why Physical Distancing Should Not Become the New (Ab)Normal](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/05/30/why-physical-distancing-should-not-become-the-new-abnormal/) - Working from home (WFH) certainly has its advantages, but studies have shown that prolonged isolation can have dire mental health consequences. As societies change their behaviour to adjust to COVID-19, they must take into consideration the innate human need for physical interaction.
- [Makau Mutua Was Wrong on JSC Reforms](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/06/06/makau-mutua-was-wrong-on-jsc-reforms/) - Professor Makau Mutua’s proposed constitutional amendments targeting the Judicial Service Commission are highly regressive and would neuter the independence of the judiciary.
- [Racism in America: We Can’t “Policy” Our Way out of This Crisis](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/06/06/racism-in-america-we-cant-policy-our-way-out-of-this-crisis/) - To end racism, we will have to change the structures from which it draws its mandate, and get rid of liberal and right-wing politicians who give it oxygen while we are being asphyxiated.
- [Solidarity Means Dismantling the System Everywhere](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/06/06/solidarity-means-dismantling-the-system-everywhere/) - International solidarity is an important and necessary step in dismantling the institutions of racist state violence, not only in the US, but across the world.
- [Africa: We Will Not Remain Silent](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/06/06/africa-we-will-not-remain-silent/) - A group of African singers, artists, academics, journalists, civil society and business leaders touched by the tragic killing of George Floyd issued a solidarity statement condemning police brutality and calling for renewed and increased relationship between Africans everywhere and African Americans. They are calling on the public to sign a Change.org petition they have posted.
- [American Spring: How Trump ‘Africanised’ the United States and Sparked an Anti-Racism Movement](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/06/06/american-spring-how-trump-africanised-the-united-states-and-sparked-an-anti-racism-movement/) - For Africans watching the unfolding uprising in America, the scenes seem eerily familiar, but disconcerting. Suddenly the tables have turned: America is being described in the same way that many African countries are depicted by the Western media; the US is beginning to resemble a failed African state.
- [The Only Solution Is to Defund the Police](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/06/11/the-only-solution-is-to-defund-the-police/) - The murders of George Floyd and prove what we already knew—police “reform” has failed.
- [Remembering Walter Rodney’s Invaluable Legacy](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/06/19/remembering-walter-rodneys-invaluable-legacy/) - For Walter Rodney, underdevelopment is a condition historically produced through capitalist expansion and imperialism. He situates Africa’s underdevelopment within the contradictory process of capitalism, one that both creates value and wealth for the exploiters while immiserating the exploited.
- [The African Union Needs a COVID-19 Think-And-Do Tank](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/06/19/the-african-union-needs-a-covid-19-think-and-do-tank/) - As the trajectory of the COVID-19 crisis continues to evolve, the African Union must activate Africa’s global human capital in a think-and-do tank to support the efforts of its member states. Such a mechanism, if done well, can outlast the crisis, strengthen the legitimacy of the AU, and complement future external technical assistance.
- [Walter Rodney Was Way Ahead of His Time](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/06/19/walter-rodney-was-way-ahead-of-his-time/) - Rediscovered lectures Walter Rodney gave in 1978 in Hamburg shows a reflective intellectual, thinking critically about postcolonial African governance.
- [The US Government Kills Black People With Impunity Both at Home and Abroad](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/06/24/the-us-government-kills-black-people-with-impunity-both-at-home-and-abroad/) - It’s time to reckon with the anti-black brutality that defines American policy from Minneapolis to Somalia.
- [Are Indians Racist or Merely Caste-Conscious?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/06/25/are-indians-racist-or-merely-caste-conscious/) - Do Indian celebrities have the moral authority to condemn racism when they themselves promote the idea that white skin is more desirable than black or brown skin? And does the Black Lives Matter movement offer India an opportunity to critically examine its own increasingly intolerant society, including the oppressive caste system?
- [Building Bridges to Nowhere: Why Kenyatta and Odinga’s Pact Won’t Last](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/06/26/building-bridges-to-nowhere-why-kenyatta-and-odingas-pact-wont-last/) - Trust deficit is high among political elites. Political pacts in Kenya's political history collapse when the elite begin to disagree on the distribution of power – or others will renege on what has been agreed upon. The handshake between Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga isn't any different.
- [The Upright Man: A Sympathetic Critique of Thomas Sankara](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/06/26/the-upright-man-a-sympathetic-critique-of-thomas-sankara/) - The judgment that Sankara was a hero rests in part on what was politically possible in Burkina Faso in the early 1980s.
- [Why Winning a Seat at the UN Security Council is Nothing to Write Home About](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/07/02/why-winning-a-seat-at-the-un-security-council-is-nothing-to-write-home-about/) - The UN Security Council is not a club of equals. The ten rotational non-permanent members of the fifteen-member Council, including Kenya, do not pose a serious threat to the five veto-holding permanent members – though membership does give the former the illusion of being influential.
- [Lumumba’s Iconography in the Arts](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/07/03/lumumbas-iconography-in-the-arts/) - On anniversary of the birthday of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of an independent Congo, we ask, "What iconography arose around him, and why is that iconography so diverse?"
- [Saba Saba at 30: The Struggle for Progressive Alternative Political Leadership in Kenya Continues](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/07/10/saba-saba-at-30-the-struggle-for-progressive-alternative-political-leadership-in-kenya-continues/) - The struggle for a prosperous, democratic and stable Kenya is not over and despite having successfully fought for a new constitution, three decades after Saba Saba, power is still largely imperial, exercised in a brutal and unaccountable manner by a political elite who have in the last decade taken every step to undermine it.
- [An Ambivalent Sense of Belonging](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/07/10/an-ambivalent-sense-of-belonging/) - Nationalist gestures, resented privileges, and acute defensiveness—all are components of what it can mean to be a white Kenyan today … their self-consciousness and uncertainties suggest that in some respects, they are of two minds about their entitlement to belong.
- [The Hands That Steal: Who Is Benefitting From Aid to the DRC?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/07/17/the-hands-that-steal-who-is-benefitting-from-aid-to-the-drc/) - A review by an anti-fraud taskforce has revealed massive corruption in the DRC involving employees of the UN and international NGOs. Lack of oversight on how aid to the DRC’s vulnerable populations is dispersed has allowed bribery to flourish in one of the world’s most mineral-rich and conflict-prone countries.
- [Food and Leadership: The Scarce Ingredients of Survival in These Corona Times](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/07/17/food-and-leadership-the-scarce-ingredients-of-survival-in-these-corona-times/) - Leadership is a process; it emerges in everyday actions and decisions as we navigate COVID-19 and other crises. These young leaders are the dream of our ancestors realized today, rising despite encumbrances brought by the life-threatening pathogen.
- [Decolonizing the Vaccine](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/07/17/decolonizing-the-vaccine/) - Africans can lead the charge to decolonize the profit-driven biomedical system by challenging European and American claims to prioritized access to the COVID-19 vaccine.
- [The Nostalgia for Empire Is a Product of Whitewashed British History](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/07/24/the-nostalgia-for-empire-is-a-product-of-whitewashed-british-history/) - UK's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a Trump-like figure has nostalgia for Empire.
- [Quest for a More Equitable Nation Undermined: CRA’s Mission Aborted](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/07/29/quest-for-a-more-equitable-nation-undermined-cras-mission-aborted/) - In 2010 Kenya adopted a constitution that promised to address the daunting problem of ethno-regional economic discrimination. The Commission for Revenue Allocation was created to safeguard this intention and put an end to the exclusion of many ethnic communities in Kenya, a legacy of colonial rule and a decades-long centralised, ethicised, and personalised presidential system.
- [The Chira of Christopher Msando Will Haunt His Murderers Until Justice for His Family Is Served](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/07/31/the-chira-of-christopher-msando-will-haunt-his-murderers-until-justice-for-his-family-is-served/) - Those who contributed in any way to the abduction, torture and assassination of Christopher Msando will eventually face justice because if there is something that history has confirmed to us time and again, it is that justice is always served, no matter how long it takes.
- [Seeds of Neo-Colonialism: Why GMO’s Create African Dependency on Global Markets](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/07/31/seeds-of-neo-colonialism-why-gmos-create-african-dependency-on-global-markets/) - Rather than addressing food scarcity, genetically modified crops may render African farmers and scientists more, not less, reliant on global markets.
- [The Coronavirus Pandemic: A Breath of Life Into the Struggle for the Implementation of the 2010 Constitution?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/08/05/the-coronavirus-pandemic-a-breath-of-life-into-the-struggle-for-the-implementation-of-the-2010-constitution/) - The pandemic has hastened the national discussion on the formation of alternative political movements and leaderships that will guarantee the national peace that the elite have shown themselves to be incapable of providing.
- [Is Poverty a Political Choice?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/08/05/is-poverty-a-political-choice/) - Philip Alston, the outgoing UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, says that international development organisations got it all wrong: not only are more people likely to be extremely poor in the next decade, but they are likely to remain extremely poor for the rest of their lives because “poverty is a political choice”.
- [Notes on the Division of Revenue Debate: Five Points to Ponder](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/08/21/notes-on-the-division-of-revenue-debate-five-points-to-ponder/) - The only human institution that thrives on self-interest is commerce. This should disabuse the Senate and the country at large of the idea that we can tinker with a formula until it pleases everyone.
- [Kamala Harris and the Politics of Race in America](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/08/21/kamala-harris-and-the-politics-of-race-in-america/) - Both African Americans and Indian Americans want a piece of her. Is she black or brown? Does it matter? Americans would do well to focus instead on what Joe Biden’s running mate stands for.
- [Mali’s Unconstitutional Change of Government: Rules Are Made for the People](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/08/28/malis-unconstitutional-change-of-government-rules-are-made-for-the-people/) - The legitimate grievances of the people of Mali must come before the interests of regional and international actors and a balance must be found between recognising the demands of the population and the need to maintain stability.
- [Do Constitutions Matter? The Dilemma of the Radical Lawyer](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/09/04/do-constitutions-matter-the-dilemma-of-the-radical-lawyer/) - Radical lawyers must recognise the limits of bourgeois law and constitutions because, by its very nature, law individualises collective demands thus fragmenting social struggles and undermining solidarity.
- [This Anti-Black Racism Must End](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/09/05/this-anti-black-racism-must-end/) - The World Bank has for too long perpetuated a racist stratification between developed and developing countries that privileges European countries and colonial settler-states.
- [Revealed: The CIA and MI6’s Secret War in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/09/11/revealed-the-cia-and-mi6s-secret-war-in-kenya/) - A covert Kenyan paramilitary team armed and trained by the US and supported by UK intelligence is behind renditions and controversial killings of terror suspects in night-time raids, Declassified UK can reveal.
- [Black Sahibs: Decolonising Language](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/09/11/black-sahibs-decolonising-language/) - Because erasure of memory and culture is a condition for successful assimilation, the burial of African languages by Africans themselves has ensured their total immersion into colonial culture. This is a death wish that occurs in societies that have never fully acknowledged their loss – like trauma victims who resort to drugs to kill the pain.
- [The World At A Crossroads: Internationalism or Extinction](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/09/16/the-world-at-a-crossroads-internationalism-or-extinction/) - The Progressive International remains in formation. The journey toward a new internationalism — one that is powerful enough to stave off extinction — has just begun not only to defeat Donald Trump, but to build a new world that is free from the need to fear him.
- [A Scorecard on Uhuru’s Presidency](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/09/17/a-scorecard-on-uhurus-presidency/) - How might one rate a president who has undermined the Constitution, distorted the economy, and failed to address corruption in state institutions?
- [Let It Never Be Said That Kenyans Went to War Over Mammary Glands](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/09/18/let-it-never-be-said-that-kenyans-went-to-war-over-mammary-glands/) - The Kenyan government’s aggressive response to Oscar Sudi’s comments, and the open defiance of Sudi’s supporters, suggest that we might be on the brink of a civil war. As one Kenyan on Twitter wryly commented, BBI has turned into a “Burning Bridges Initiative”.
- [The Violence in Ethiopia](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/09/18/the-violence-in-ethiopia/) - The imminent and existential danger to Ethiopia is not Abiy Ahmed and an oppressive government. It is violent ethno-nationalism.
- [The Fate of the Human Experiment Depends on the Outcome of This Struggle](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/09/19/the-fate-of-the-human-experiment-depends-on-the-outcome-of-this-struggle/) - Noam Chomsky’s keynote speech at the Progressive International’s inaugural summit.
- [Africa’s Pandemic Response Calls for Reclaiming Economic and Monetary Sovereignty](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/09/21/africas-pandemic-response-calls-for-reclaiming-economic-and-monetary-sovereignty/) - More than 600 economists and academics from around the world call for Africa to acquire monetary sovereignty in order to revive its development after Covid-19.
- [Time Out for the Millennium Dam?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/09/25/time-out-for-the-millennium-dam/) - The countries involved in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam are three of the largest in Africa and they could all benefit from coordinated action instead of belligerence and a zero-sum game.
- [Fractures and Tensions in the Anti-Racism Movement](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/09/25/fractures-and-tensions-in-the-anti-racism-movement/) - Continental Africans have a lot to learn from their African American cousins in relation to race politics and white supremacy, not least because the phases of oppression developed by white supremacists simply keep mutating.
- [The Pitfalls of African Consciousness](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/09/25/the-pitfalls-of-african-consciousness/) - It took time to digest Beyonce's Black Is King. Conclusion: it fails to deliver us. Instead, it's just another capitalist construction of the world.
- [The United Orwellian Nations](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/10/02/the-united-orwellian-nations/) - As the United Nations celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, a former UN staffer reveals the hypocrisy of the UN Security Council, which claims to protect the human rights of the world’s people, but which in essence only serves the political and economic interests of its most powerful member states. The UN whistleblower explains what finally drove her to resign from the UN after a decade-long career.
- [African Literature Is a Country](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/10/02/african-literature-is-a-country/) - What if you survey African literature professors to find out which works and writers are most regularly taught? Only a few canonical ones continue to dominate curricula.
- [‘Why Are Africans Not Dying?’](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/10/03/why-are-africans-not-dying/) - If the coronavirus has taught us anything, it is that not even a pandemic can erase the inherent racism in the Western media and in humanitarian organisations.
- [Food Crimes: Why WFP Doesn’t Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/10/16/food-crimes-why-wfp-doesnt-deserve-the-nobel-peace-prize/) - The UN’s food assistance agency has neither improved conditions for peace in conflict-affected countries nor prevented the use of hunger as a weapon of war. On the contrary, it is responsible for prolonging conflict in some countries and suppressing local food production in others.
- [The Role of Kenyan Civil Society in Democratic Governance](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/10/16/the-role-of-kenyan-civil-society-in-democratic-governance/) - Kenyan civil society has played a critical role in holding the State to account and in promoting a human rights-based approach to governance.
- [Climate Politics: The Grand Plan to Save Forests Has Failed](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/10/23/climate-politics-the-grand-plan-to-save-forests-has-failed/) - Communities that live and work in African woodlands must become central to conservation efforts.
- [Why #EndSARS Matters in an Era of Increasing Militarisation and Repression](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/10/23/why-endsars-matters-in-an-era-of-increasing-militarisation-and-repression/) - In Nigeria, protests against police brutality are mounting. In Kenya, however, new security laws that undermine police and military accountability are being passed.
- [Nyerere: Africa’s Philosopher King](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/10/30/nyerere-africas-philosopher-king/) - A new biography of Tanzania's first president, Julius Nyerere, reveals a complicated legacy.
- [The Failure of the Left in Contemporary Movements in Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/10/30/the-failure-of-the-left-in-contemporary-movements-in-africa/) - How do we account for the failure of left working class movements taking root in most of Africa?
- [Will COVID-19 Spell the Death of Cities?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/10/30/will-covid-19-spell-the-death-of-cities/) - The rapid spread of COVID-19 in urban areas is raising questions about whether this pandemic will herald the demise of cities. RASNA WARAH argues that cities will continue to exist and grow despite the coronavirus crisis because of the distinctly human need for social interaction, physical contact and collaboration.
- [Nigeria’s Movement Against Brutality and Poverty](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/11/06/nigerias-movement-against-brutality-and-poverty/) - The background to the #EndSARS protests and celebrating a movement that challenges Nigeria’s ruling class.
- [Jacinda Ardern, a New Leadership Paradigm and the New Zealand Miracle](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/11/14/jacinda-ardern-a-new-leadership-paradigm-and-the-new-zealand-miracle/) - New Zealand's Prime Minister is a very nice centrist. People in the rest of the world, including Africans, calling for her to be emulated should be careful what they wish for.
- [Kenyan Statues Must Fall](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/11/20/kenyan-statues-must-fall/) - What could or should full decolonization in Kenya look like?
- [Is the BBI a Trojan Horse Disguised as a Guardian Angel?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/11/20/is-the-bbi-a-trojan-horse-disguised-as-a-guardian-angel/) - The Building Bridges Initiative fails to inspire because it offers simplistic solutions to problems that have more to do with poor leadership than with Kenyans’ inability to be responsible citizens.
- [Make Amazon Pay](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/11/27/make-amazon-pay/) - The Progressive International is mobilising with Amazon workers and their allies around the world. Here’s why.
- [Referendum Without a Constitutional Moment: The Kenyan Story](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/11/27/referendum-without-a-constitutional-moment-the-kenyan-story/) - With the country in the grip of a global pandemic and grappling with an ailing economy, is constitutional reform a priority when it’s not clear that the country is facing a constitutional moment?
- [Evangelical Christianity: Is it Love or Colonisation?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/12/05/evangelical-christianity-is-it-love-or-colonisation/) - At a time when Evangelical Christianity frequently goes against the interests of African people, is it time for us to re-make Christianity?
- [It’s Time To Make the Sovereignty of Wanjiku Count as Decreed by Our Constitution](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/12/11/its-time-to-make-the-sovereignty-of-wanjiku-count-as-decreed-by-our-constitution/) - Both the state and ruling elite have lost the legitimacy and morality to rule.
- [“Under pressure”: Negotiating Competing Demands in an Age of Uncertainty](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/12/11/under-pressure-negotiating-competing-demands-in-an-age-of-uncertainty/) - The pressures young black un(der)employed men experience are at once economic and social given the pressure they face to not only “provide” for themselves and their families exists alongside a pressure to improve or “upgrade” their lives.
- [The IMF’s Austerity Is Strangling Ecuador – Again](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2020/12/14/the-imfs-austerity-is-strangling-ecuador-again/) - Only with careful concerns for the human cost of Ecuador’s capital outflows, fiscal consolidation, and wage ‘rationalization’ can the IMF make good on the bloody legacy of its program in Ecuador, and ensure that its call for consultation is not simply a dialogue of the deaf. By Progressive international
- [Our Man in Kampala: Museveni and the Americans](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/01/09/our-man-in-kampala-museveni-and-the-americans/) - America must make the choice to side with the majority of Ugandans who would like to see democracy take root in Uganda.
- [Uganda Elections 2021: The Elephant Website Blocked Ahead of Poll](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/01/14/uganda-elections-2021-the-elephant-website-blocked-ahead-of-poll/) - For about a month now, some of our readers within Uganda have been reporting problems accessing the website. Following receipt of these reports, we launched investigations which have established that The Elephant has been blocked by some, though not all, internet service providers in the country.
- [Uganda: Democracy for Some, Mere Management for Others](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/01/14/democracy-for-some-mere-management-for-others/) - The coming election in Uganda is significant because if there is to be managed change, it will never find a more opportune moment.
- [What Kenyans Have Always Wanted is to Limit the Powers of the Executive](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/01/15/what-kenyans-have-always-wanted-is-to-limit-the-powers-of-the-executive/) - As Kenya’s political class considers expanding the executive branch of government, no one seems to be talking about restricting its powers.
- [What Is Trump’s Only Redemption? That He’s an Utter Coward](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/01/22/what-is-trumps-only-redemption-that-hes-an-utter-coward/) - There is an element to Trump that is almost tragic if he were not such a buffoon. What happens if the next Trump is just mad and brave enough to really commit and go all the way?
- [Nairobi: The Native City Under the Sun](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/01/29/nairobi-the-native-city-under-the-sun/) - Re-visiting Nairobi's urban history offers a glimpse into the forces that shaped modern life.
- [Kongomano la Mageuzi: A Luta Continua!](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/02/03/kongomano-la-mageuzi-a-luta-continua/) - We must provoke a new political awakening, imagine a new politics, a new humanity, and bring about a fourth liberation — the promulgation of the 2010 Constitution.
- [Black Bodies, White Spaces: The Complicit Reproduction of the African Tragedy by the Global Health Industry](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/02/05/black-bodies-white-spaces-the-complicit-reproduction-of-the-african-tragedy-by-the-global-health-industry/) - The othering of Africa is an inexorable feature that sustains the West’s ability to imagine itself as intellectually and morally superior. These delusions of grandeur are maintained through enterprises like global public health that discursively reinforce conditions suggesting the need for Africa to remain financially and epistemically dependent on Western countries.
- [Sankofa: Reclaiming Africa’s Early Post-Independence History](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/02/12/sankofa-reclaiming-africas-early-post-independence-history/) - The task is to recapture progressive thought and policies from post-independence Africa for our times.
- [The Militarisation of US/Africa Policy: How the CIA Came To Lead Deadly Counter-Terrorism Operations in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/02/17/the-militarisation-of-us-africa-policy-how-the-cia-came-to-lead-deadly-counter-terrorism-operations-in-kenya/) - US and Kenyan diplomatic and intelligence officials tell Declassified UK why the CIA set up a covert paramilitary counter-terror team, how it flies recruits to the US for special training, and why Britain helps gather intelligence on targets.
- [Revealed: MI6 ‘Misled’ Two Inquiries Into Arrest of Lee Rigby’s Killer](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/02/19/revealed-mi6-misled-two-inquiries-into-arrest-of-lee-rigbys-killer/) - Three intelligence officers tell Declassified UK that Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, known as MI6, tracked and arranged the arrest of Michael Adebolajo in Kenya, contradicting MI6’s testimony to two intelligence oversight reviews.
- [Dismantling and Transcending Colonialism’s Legacy](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/02/19/dismantling-and-transcending-colonialisms-legacy/) - Nkrumah, Nyerere and Senghor were acutely aware of the need to displace the epistemic conditions of colonization in order to transcend it.
- [USA: For Right-Wing Extremists the Attack on Capitol Hill Was a Victory](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/02/19/usa-for-right-wing-extremists-the-attack-on-capitol-hill-was-a-victory/) - The successful attack on Capitol Hill will fuel years of recruitment and mythologising for post-Trump extremists.
- [The G20 Is Gathering. Debt Justice Is Our Demand](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/02/25/the-g20-is-gathering-debt-justice-is-our-demand/) - As the G20 meet to discuss the global economic recovery, the Debt Justice group calls for a radical break with extraction and austerity — and proposes a new system in its place.
- [The Danger of the Single Story and Africa’s Refugee Equilibrium](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/02/26/the-danger-of-the-single-story-and-africas-refugee-equilibrium/) - Africans' lack of knowledge about our own shared refugee experiences continues to fuel hate and discrimination on the continent.
- [Is Balkanisation the Solution to Somalia’s Governance Woes?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/02/26/is-balkanisation-the-solution-to-somalias-governance-woes/) - Thirty years after the civil war of 1991, Somalia has still not been able to develop a functional governance structure that delivers services to the people. Federalism has also not delivered political stability. Is it time for Somalia to break up into independent clan-based states?
- [Lava Jato: The CIA’s Poisoned Gift to Brazil](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/02/26/lava-jato-the-cias-poisoned-gift-to-brazil/) - Recently leaked conversations show shocking levels of US involvement in Brazil’s Lava Jato corruption case against former president Lula da Silva.
- [The Enormous and Underrated Value of Care](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/03/05/the-enormous-and-underrated-value-of-care/) - What 2020 has given us—is an archive of heart-breaking examples of the need for care labour and the politically transformative power of care as an orientation towards others.
- [Thomas Sankara: A United Front Against Debt](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/03/05/thomas-sankara-a-united-front-against-debt/) - In 1987, Thomas Sankara called for a united front against debt. His struggle remains as urgent today as it was then.
- [Why Kenya’s Constitutional Duels Are All About Power Struggles Among the Elite](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/03/05/why-kenyas-constitutional-duels-are-all-about-power-struggles-among-the-elite/) - Kenya is in the throes of another agonised constitutional debate. Proponents of the new push for amendments argue that the time is right to cure deficiencies in the 2010 constitution. Yet that document is only a little over 10 years old, and followed a referendum that ushered in the most comprehensive constitutional reforms since independence
- [Nigeria’s Strategy and Boko Haram: Any End in Sight?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/03/05/nigerias-strategy-and-boko-haram-any-end-in-sight/) - The Nigerian government must achieve an understanding of the conflict and of Boko Haram to avoid eventual state collapse, with catastrophic implications for West Africa and the continent.
- [Burkina Faso: The Age of Revolution Is Back and a Student Movement Is Leading It](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/03/12/burkina-faso-the-age-of-revolution-is-back-and-a-student-movement-is-leading-it/) - Student militancy has revived in Burkinabè public universities over the past decade. Now, a student movement could slowly transform society.
- [What #LindaKatiba Is, and Why It Matters](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/03/12/what-lindakatiba-is-and-why-it-matters/) - The BBI project is a return to autocratic rule, to an imperial president who is not accountable to parliament and to a parasitic model of government.
- [Manifesto for Human Life](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/03/13/manifesto-for-human-life/) - On the anniversary of COVID-19, we must build a world centered on human life — a planet of care, equality, and popular sovereignty.
- [In Magufuli’s Shadow: The Stark Choices Facing Tanzania’s New President](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/03/26/in-magufulis-shadow-the-stark-choices-facing-tanzanias-new-president/) - One immediate concern is what steps Hassan will take on the pandemic, and whether she will change direction.
- [Deconstructing the Whiteness of Christ](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/04/03/deconstructing-the-whiteness-of-christ/) - 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.
- [Haiti: The Struggle for Democracy, Justice, Reparations and the Black Soul](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/04/03/haiti-the-struggle-for-democracy-justice-reparations-and-the-black-soul/) - Only the Haitian people can decide their own future. The dictatorship imposed by former president Jovenel Moïse and its imperialist enablers need to go – and make space for a people’s transition government.
- [SAPs – Season Two: Why Kenyans Fear Another IMF Loan](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/04/16/saps-season-two-why-kenyans-fear-another-imf-loan/) - The Jubilee government would have us believe that the country is economically healthy but the reality is that the IMF has come in precisely because Kenya is in a financial crisis.
- [South Africa: Why an Amnesty for Grand Corruption Is a Bad Idea](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/05/08/south-africa-why-an-amnesty-for-grand-corruption-is-a-bad-idea/) - A full confession can bring amnesty and immunity from prosecution or civil procedures for the crimes committed. Therein lies the central irony. As people give more and more evidence of the things they have done they get closer and closer to amnesty and it gets more and more intolerable that these people should be given amnesty.
- [Towards an African Revolution: Fanon and the New Popular Movement (Hirak) Engulfing Algeria](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/05/08/towards-an-african-revolution-fanon-the-new-popular-movement-hirak-engulfing-algeria/) - Sixty years after the death of the revolutionary Frantz Fanon and the publication of his masterpiece, The Wretched of the Earth, Algeria is undergoing another revolution. In the first of a two-part blogpost, Hamza Hamouchene provides a brief historical account of Fanon’s anti-colonial thought, his critique of the postcolonial ruling elites and the new popular movement (Hirak) engulfing Algeria.
- [Lessons From India’s COVID Calamity](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/05/08/lessons-from-indias-covid-calamity/) - Neglect of the public healthcare system, suppression of scientific information and sacrificing citizen welfare for political mileage have led to the public health crisis facing India today.
- [Protests by Palestinian Citizens in Israel Signal Growing Sense of a Common Struggle](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/05/15/protests-by-palestinian-citizens-in-israel-signal-growing-sense-of-a-common-struggle/) - Since May 9, 2021, thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel, numbering some 1.9 million people and often referred to as “Arab Israelis,” have taken to the streets to express support for their fellow Palestinians in Gaza and Jerusalem. Protests are taking place in both mixed Arab-Jewish cities like Haifa, Jaffa and Lod, known as Lydda to Palestinians, as well as in predominantly Palestinian cities and towns like Nazareth and Umm al-Fahm.
- [The Kenyan High Court’s BBI Judgement: An Instant Classic](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/05/17/the-kenyan-high-courts-bbi-judgement-an-instant-classic/) - The High Court joins the family of courts that have adopted a variant of the basic structure doctrine, and has done so in an entirely unique and compelling manner.
- [This Time the Judiciary Must Not Cave in to Executive Bullying](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/05/17/this-time-the-judiciary-must-not-cave-in-to-executive-bullying/) - The constitutional stars have aligned and the entire judiciary has the rare opportunity to speak with one strong voice and assert its constitutional authority.
- [The Struggle for Africa’s Food Sovereignty](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/05/24/the-struggle-for-africas-food-sovereignty/) - How early post-independence clarity on the link between food self-sufficiency and national sovereignty offers lessons for contemporary efforts.
- [How Technology Can Help Nations Navigate the Difficult Path to Food Sovereignty](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/05/24/how-technology-can-help-nations-navigate-the-difficult-path-to-food-sovereignty/) - Using digital platforms to enhance food sovereignty is only plausible if international trade is not disruptive.
- [Somaliland Electoral Law Imperils Inclusive Representation](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/05/28/somaliland-electoral-law-imperils-inclusive-representation/) - The absence of legal commitments to promote representation of women, minorities, and clans from contested regions in the upcoming elections will reinforce an exclusionary voting system.
- [Tigray: Call It Genocide, Prosecute Its Leaders and End It](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/05/29/tigray-call-it-genocide-prosecute-its-leaders-and-end-it/) - The Tigrayan people should not, must not, wait for one century, one year or even one more day for the world to acknowledge their plight and rescue them from obliteration.
- [Rights Violations in Isiolo International Airport Land Expropriation](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/06/04/rights-violations-in-isiolo-international-airport-land-expropriation/) - The Land Value Act does not make provision for the valuation of communal land in a manner that reflects the social-economic practices of the drylands communities.
- [The West Must Return the Artifacts They Stole Back to Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/06/04/the-west-must-return-the-artifacts-they-stole-back-to-africa/) - There can no longer be false justifications for holding Benin Bronzes, and other pilfered materials, in museums outside of Africa.
- [Mr President, in the Name of the Constitution, Swear in the Judges](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/06/09/mr-president-in-the-name-of-the-constitution-swear-in-the-judges/) - President Uhuru Kenyatta should live up to his oath of office to obey the constitution and resist the temptation to be garlanded in the pettiness of performing power, writes former Chief Justice Willy Mutunga.
- [India’s COVID-19 Surge Is a Warning for Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/06/12/indias-covid-19-surge-is-a-warning-for-africa/) - The surge in COVID-19 cases in India, spurred by a more transmissible variant and complacency, provides a stark warning to African populations to remain vigilant to contain the pandemic.
- [BBI and Kenya’s Finest Jurists](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/06/12/bbi-and-kenyas-finest-jurists/) - For Mr. Kenyatta and Mr. Odinga, the dim prospects of the Bill process could upend any succession plans they have hatched together. Political analysts believe that Mr. Kenyatta could back Mr. Odinga for the presidency next year against Mr. Ruto.
- [Vaccine Internationalism Is How We End the Pandemic](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/06/17/vaccine-internationalism-is-how-we-end-the-pandemic/) - The G7 is prolonging the pandemic. The Summit for Vaccine Internationalism is organizing to end it.
- [Gone Is the Last Of the Mohicans: Tribute to Kenneth Kaunda](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/06/18/gone-is-the-last-of-the-mohicans-tribute-to-kenneth-kaunda/) - As we mourn President Kaunda, my prayer is that the death of this great African son and leader will remind us of the sacrifices that he and his contemporaries who fought for Africa’s independence made.
- [COVID-19 Vaccine Safety and Compensation: The Case of Sputnik V](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/06/18/covid-19-vaccine-safety-and-compensation-the-case-of-sputnik-v/) - All vaccines come with medical risks and Kenyans are taking these risks for their protection and that of the wider community. They deserve compensation should they suffer for doing so.
- [Cherry-Picking of Judges Is a Great Affront to Judicial Independence](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/06/21/cherry-picking-of-judges-is-a-great-affront-to-judicial-independence/) - Uhuru Kenyatta’s refusal to fulfil his constitutional duty to appoint and gazette JSC-nominated judges is a tyranny against the judiciary.
- [Kenneth Kaunda: The Founding President of Zambia](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/06/23/kenneth-kaunda-the-founding-president-of-zambia/) - Independence leader who fought white rule and helped shape postcolonial southern Africa
- [Will Kenya’s Vision 2030 Megaprojects Bring the North in From the Cold?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/06/26/will-kenyas-vision-2030-megaprojects-bring-the-north-in-from-the-cold/) - The proposed megaprojects have shifted the focus of conflict to disputes over land and boundaries, an emotive issue that reinforces the deep-rooted sentiments of regional exclusion and inequality.
- [Palestine and the Necessary Evils of Settler Colonialism](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/07/02/palestine-and-the-necessary-evils-of-settler-colonialism/) - As we watch what is taking place in Jerusalem, we are witnessing the creation of a settler colony in real time.
- [Tigray Crisis: A Conversation With General Tsadkan Gebretensae, Tigray Defense Force Central Command](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/07/09/tigray-crisis-a-conversation-with-general-tsadkan-gebretensae-tigray-defense-force-central-command/) - Will the ceasefire between Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Ethiopian government's bring lasting peace to Ethiopia?
- [Somalia’s Election Is Already Rigged: The Question Is, For Whom?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/07/09/somalias-election-is-already-rigged-the-question-is-for-whom/) - Somalia desperately needs new leadership to restore constitutional rule and to set its teetering political transition back on track. Farmaajo’s removal would therefore be a welcome step
- [Kenneth Kaunda: One Zambia, One Nation](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/07/09/kenneth-kaunda-one-zambia-one-nation/) - How Kenneth Kaunda was instrumental in guiding Zambia through its formative years in the absence of war or mass atrocities that blighted many of its neighbors.
- [Deconstructing Race and Gender for the African Traveller](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/07/16/deconstructing-race-and-gender-for-the-african-traveller/) - Nanjala Nyabola’s new book reflects on Africans’ experiences of dislocation, exile, belonging and not belonging.
- [Hilary Ng’weno: Apostle of Press freedom and Pro-establishment Figure](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/07/16/hilary-ngweno-apostle-of-press-freedom-and-pro-establishment-figure/) - Hilary Ng’weno was the founder of the respected Weekly Review which became the standard-bearer for political news reporting in Kenya and the region.
- [The Protests Are Bigger Than Zuma](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/07/23/the-protests-are-bigger-than-zuma/) - While the #FreeJacobZuma campaign is the catalyst, the violence has been fuelled by deep-rooted inequality, poverty, unemployment, trauma.
- [They Are Watching You: Israeli-Made Spyware Used to Monitor Journalists and Activists Worldwide](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/07/23/they-are-watching-you-israeli-made-spyware-used-to-monitor-journalists-and-activists-worldwide/) - The use of spyware to surveil, harass, and intimidate journalists and activists — and those close to them has become a key activity for many governments worldwide.
- [South Africa Has to Heal Its Troubled Past – and the Time Is Now](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/07/23/south-africa-has-to-heal-its-troubled-past-and-the-time-is-now/) - If there is no material justice and investment in healing the generations of harm enacted onto South Africans, the rot in the country's wounds will overcome them.
- [Land Title and Evictions in the Supreme Court of Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/07/23/land-title-and-evictions-in-the-supreme-court-of-kenya/) - Violent evictions of families from their homes are not exceptional events. They go to the heart of Kenya’s political economy and its long history of valorising the rights of those who hold private title.
- [The State of Judicial Independence in Kenya: A Persistent Concern](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/07/30/the-state-of-judicial-independence-in-kenya-a-persistent-concern/) - Judicial independence is Kenya’s last buffer line, stopping the country from degenerating into absolute tyranny. Judicial independence is a collective national good. It will be protected as such. So long as we may have an independent Judiciary, the great interests of the people will be safe.
- [The Second Sex: Women’s Liberation and Media in Post-Independence Tanzania](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/07/30/the-second-sex-womens-liberation-and-media-in-post-independence-tanzania/) - Fatma Alloo (of the Tanzania Media Women's Association) on how women used the media and cultural spaces to organize and challenge gender norms.
- [Elections? What elections? Abiy is Counting on a Military Victory](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/08/02/elections-what-elections-abiy-is-counting-on-a-military-victory/) - Abiy Ahmed’s legitimacy hangs on conjuring up an improbable military victory in the total war he has declared on the people of Tigray.
- [The African Research Assistant as Hunter-Gatherer: An Insider’s View](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/08/06/the-african-research-assistant-as-hunter-gatherer-an-insiders-view/) - Research assistants are merely the “hunters and gatherers” of knowledge, relegated to the periphery as “brokers”, doing the bidding of those who pull the purse strings, argues Wanjiru Gichohi.
- [The Bear Is Back: Russian Re-Engagement With Africa Is Picking up With Putin in the Driving Seat](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/08/06/the-bear-is-back-russian-re-engagement-with-africa-is-picking-up-with-putin-in-the-driving-seat/) - Plans for the 2022 Russia-Africa summit are well under way, again causing a stir around growing Russian presence on the continent. Rumored to be taking place in either Cairo, Dakar or Addis Ababa, the summit will bring together hundreds of representatives from business and government.
- [Memo to Kenya’s Youth: Protect Your Motherland or Perish](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/08/06/memo-to-kenyas-youth-protect-your-motherland-or-perish/) - We must think of freedom and emancipation from forces that enslave and divide us. We can start this patriotic dialogue by putting in place a political leadership that cares about your humanity, a leadership that you participate in directly and not as proxies.
- [Losing Our Minds: Brain Drain of Africa’s Psychiatrists Is Costing the Continent](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/08/07/losing-our-minds-brain-drain-of-africas-psychiatrists-is-costing-the-continent/) - Many of the continent’s most highly trained mental health professionals migrate outside Africa. The result, sadly, makes global inequalities in access to mental health, worse.
- [Not All Gloom and Doom: A Rebuttal to Mehari’s “Elections? What Elections? Abiy Is Counting on A Military Victory”](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/08/13/not-all-gloom-and-doom-a-rebuttal-to-meharis-elections-what-elections-abiy-is-counting-on-a-military-victory/) - The plethora of political, judicial, economic and military reforms for the betterment of the People of Ethiopia and beyond that were introduced by PM Abiy since he came to power are still in place with an ever-increasing vitality and returns, to which the people of Ethiopia and other persons of common sense could attest to.
- [BBI: Political Tool or State-Building Opportunity?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/08/13/bbi-political-tool-or-state-building-opportunity/) - The Building Bridges Initiative has only opened up the more important discussion of Kenyans coming to terms with their social realities. It cannot be expected to be the silver bullet that will solve the country’s problems.
- [Africa: COVID-19 Is Deepening Africa’s Democratic Regression](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/08/13/africa-covid-19-is-deepening-africas-democratic-regression/) - As the recorded number of infections in Africa edges towards the six million mark, it has become clear that COVID-19 is not only a public health challenge.
- [Zambia: Incumbent President Lungu Plays a Trump Card as He Loses to the Opposition](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/08/16/zambia-incumbent-president-lungu-plays-a-trump-card-as-he-loses-to-the-opposition/) - If they continue to release results as they have been, the pressure on Lungu to stand down may soon become insurmountable.
- [Aping the West: Local News Media and Northern Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/08/20/aping-the-west-local-news-media-and-northern-kenya/) - Kenyan mass media is a replica of news outlets from the global north and its relationship with northern Kenya mirrors how mainstream media in the West portrays African countries.
- [The Rising Fourth Wave: Feminist Activism on Digital Platforms Across Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/08/20/the-rising-fourth-wave-feminist-activism-on-digital-platforms-across-africa/) - Although still facing deeply entrenched oppression by patriarchal power, a new generation of African women is using the internet to mobilize, organise and unite in their struggles.
- [Looking for New Suitors: Is Israel Trying to Influence the African Continent’s Stance on Palestine?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/08/20/looking-for-new-suitors-is-israel-trying-to-influence-the-african-continents-stance-on-palestine/) - Israel’s success in getting observer status at the African Union is also a sign of the growing lack of interest among African leaders in the Palestinian issue altogether.
- [Nothing New Under the Sun: The Economics of Neo-Colonial Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/08/27/nothing-new-under-the-sun-the-economics-of-neo-colonial-kenya/) - The seemingly frivolous laws passed by the Kenyan state serve to entrench the hegemony of the elite and the extractive and exclusionary patterns of economics that have existed since colonial times.
- [An Open Call by African Intellectuals for Urgent Action on Ethiopia](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/08/27/open-call-by-african-intellectuals-for-urgent-action-on-ethiopia/) - The AU, its member states -- particularly Ethiopia’s neighbouring states -- must not allow Ethiopia to dictate the terms of their engagement in seeking resolution to this conflict.
- [The Law Is Clear, Power Belongs to the People: Court of Appeal’s BBI Judgment](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/08/27/the-law-is-clear-power-belongs-to-the-people-court-of-appeals-bbi-judgment/) - The process of popular initiative must be guarded from abuse. A State actor, who is otherwise barred from initiating a popular initiative, cannot originate a proposal for amendment then hire or sponsor a citizen to formulate it into a Bill and then collect signatures in support.
- [BBI Appeal: The Doctrine of Basic Structure Revisited](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/08/27/bbi-appeal-the-doctrine-of-basic-structure-revisited/) - On 20 August 2021, a seven-judge bench of the Kenyan Court of Appeal delivered judgment in a set of consolidated cases known as the “BBI Appeals”. The case arose out of the judgment of the High Court of Kenya, where the Constitution Amendment Bill of 2020, containing seventy-four proposed amendments to the 2010 Kenyan Constitution, had been struck down for violation of the basic structure, and non-compliance with various procedural and substantive requirements under the Constitution’s amendment provisions.
- [Court of Appeal’s BBI Judgment: The IEBC as a Fourth Branch Institution](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/08/27/court-of-appeals-bbi-judgment-the-iebc-as-a-fourth-branch-institution/) - The IEBC is a Fourth Branch institution that – as the name suggests – is responsible for supervising elections and referenda, and for related matters such as boundary and constituency delimitation.
- [Cyberspace: The New Battleground for Competing Norms](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/08/27/cyberspace-the-new-battleground-for-competing-norms/) - A proposal by Russia that the United Nations should consider a global cybercrime treaty has been adopted with the support of 30 African countries, raising concerns that Moscow’s known preference for state cyber sovereignty will prevail in ways that give countries regulatory freedom to stifle political opposition or citizen dissent.
- [The Return of the Taliban: What Now for the Women of Afghanistan?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/09/03/the-return-of-the-taliban-what-now-for-the-women-of-afghanistan/) - The American experiment in Afghanistan failed, but why should women and girls pay the price?
- [Hunger in the Heart of Empire: Pellagra in the United States](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/09/03/hunger-in-the-heart-of-empire-pellagra-in-the-united-states/) - Institutionalized poverty led to an outbreak of pellagra that Americans would rather forget. But grain farmers remember; they know that hunger is good business.
- [Kenya’s Baronial Elites: Power of Bandits in Suits](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/09/10/kenyas-baronial-elites-power-of-bandits-in-suits/) - We have become a bandit economy. The gap between rich and poor is enormous in Kenya. That is not just because of their different income, but primarily because of their different outlook on the country. From the perspective of the poor inhabitants – the majority – Kenya’s elite is rich thanks to massive corruption.
- [Amb. Godec Is Well Placed to Articulate US Policy for Kenya’s 2022 Polls](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/09/10/amb-godec-is-well-placed-to-articulate-us-policy-for-kenyas-2022-polls/) - Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Ambassador Robert Godec is a seasoned veteran of Kenyan post-2007 politics.
- [Angola: Myths and Realities About the Quality of Education](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/09/10/angola-myths-and-realities-about-the-quality-of-education/) - Education benefits each person individually and, at the same time, benefits society in general, through its contribution to the formation of better prepared citizens.
- [End Vaccine Apartheid - People’s Lives Must Come Before Profit](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/09/10/end-vaccine-apartheid-peoples-lives-must-come-before-profit/) - Vaccine costs have pushed many developing countries to the back of the vaccine queue, with most low-income ones not even lining up. Poor nations cannot afford to provide relief or stimulate recovery.
- [Ethiopia: Local CSOs Call for Peace as Country Marks New Year](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/09/13/ethiopia-local-csos-call-for-peace-as-country-marks-new-year/) - Call for an immediate cessation of hostilities and call on all civil society organizations in our country to focus on activities of transforming conflicts as well as engaging in comprehensive peacebuilding and reconciliation efforts.
- [Education for Dummies: CBC and Homeschooling](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/09/13/education-for-dummies-cbc-and-homeschooling/) - The choice between homeschooling and institutional education is not a real one. And homeschooling does not offer an alternative education but merely an alternative venue and facilitator.
- [Northern Kenya Pastoralists Should Be Licenced to Carry Arms](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/09/13/northern-kenya-pastoralists-should-be-licenced-to-carry-arms/) - The law needs to be changed to allow herders to carry arms to safeguard livestock rearing which is a valuable economic activity in northern Kenya.
- [Securing Kenya’s Electoral Integrity in the Digital Age](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/09/17/securing-kenyas-electoral-integrity-in-the-digital-age/) - A collaborative approach by all stakeholders is crucial in order to curb the spread of content that undermines healthy democratic activity without subverting healthy online engagement.
- [Every Worker Is Essential and Must Be Guaranteed Social Protection, No Matter What](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/09/17/every-worker-is-essential-and-must-be-guaranteed-social-protection-no-matter-what/) - The International Domestic Workers Federation and UNI Global Union demand that all workers of the formal and informal economy are guaranteed social protection.
- [9/11 and the United States-Kenya Relationship](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/09/20/9-11-and-the-united-states-kenya-relationship/) - Would US-Kenya relations be significantly different today had the al-Qaeda attacks not taken place?
- [We Are So Much Better Than the Elites Make Us Out to Be](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/09/20/we-are-so-much-better-than-the-elites-make-us-out-to-be/) - To resist the efforts of Cambridge Analytica and similar social saboteurs in the media and the academy, we must believe in our capacity to vote on a diversity of issues.
- [Cutting the Hand That Feeds: Is the UN Silencing the Voices of Farmers and Indigenous Communities?](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/09/24/cutting-the-hand-that-feeds-is-the-un-silencing-the-voices-of-farmers-and-indigenous-communities/) - More than 500 indigenous and farmer organisations across the continents have raised their voices to expose the UN’s Food Systems Summit as only advocating one food system—so they’re being silenced.
- [UN Panel of Experts: Kenya Urged to Back Former CJ Willy Mutunga Candidacy](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/09/24/un-panel-of-experts-kenya-urged-to-back-former-cj-willy-mutunga-candidacy/) - Willy Mutunga, the former Chief Justice and President of the Supreme Court of Kenya has been nominated by a number of international organisations to be one of the three experts. International human rights activists are calling on the government of Kenya to join with others in Global Africa to support the nomination of Willy Mutunga.
- [Kenyans Need an Education That Is Human: A Call to Conscience](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/09/24/kenyans-need-an-education-that-is-human-a-call-to-conscience/) - Colonial and post-colonial governments have worked to separate education from access to culture and information, and to isolate the school as the only source of learning.
- [Conflict in Marsabit: Voter and Politician Locked in a Danse Macabre](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/09/27/conflict-in-marsabit-voter-and-politician-locked-in-a-danse-macabre/) - The nature of the conflict in Marsabit has changed. Deaths are tallied, and ledgers of the unmourned dead are meticulously kept.
- [Securing Kenya’s Electoral Integrity: Regulating Personal Data Use](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/10/01/securing-kenyas-electoral-integrity-regulating-personal-data-use/) - The Data Protection Act needs to be fully operationalised As Kenya heads into the 2022 election cycle and a sensitisation exercise undertaken concerning the use of personal data in campaigns.
- [Pandora Papers: Worldwide Outrage Calls for Probes After Documents Revealed](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/10/06/pandora-papers-worldwide-outrage-calls-for-probes-after-documents-revealed/) - The Pandora Papers, based on almost 12 million documents leaked from 14 companies that provide corporate services in offshore jurisdictions, expose some of the most prominent current or former leaders and politicians as beneficiaries of offshore accounts.
- [The Pandora Papers Explained](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/10/06/the-pandora-papers-explained/) - The Pandora Papers are nearly 12 million files — totalling close to 2.94 terabytes — leaked from 14 companies that provide corporate services in offshore jurisdictions.
- [‘Sifanyi Kazi’: The importance of the MW v AN Case in Support of Care Work](https://www.theelephant.info/opinion/2021/10/08/sifanyi-kazi-the-importance-of-the-mw-v-an-case/) - In MW v AN, as in the earlier case of Echaria v Echaria, which also involved marriage and a woman’s interest in the family home, the care being provided was to children. The property in question in both cases was marital property. These cases were governed by marriage law.

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- [Goonland: Looking Beyond the Money and Violence in the Political Exploitation of Young Men](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/goonland-looking-beyond-the-money-and-violence-in-the-political-exploitation-of-young-men/) - A report released by OdipoDev and Tribeless Youth on money and violence in the political exploitation of young Kenyan men.
- [Gendered Political Attacks in Kenya’s Digital Spaces](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/gendered-political-attacks-in-kenyas-digital-spaces/) - A situational report published on 15th May 2025 by Code for Africa and partners on gendered political attacks in Kenya’s digital spaces.
- [Uganda: Judgement of Owiny Dollo, SC in Attorney General vs. Hon. Micheal Kabaziguruka (Constitutional Appeal No. 02 of 2021)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/uganda-judgement-of-owiny-dollo-sc-in-attorney-general-vs-hon-micheal-kabaziguruka-constitutional-appeal-no-02-of-2021/) - The Supreme Court of Uganda, in the landmark case Attorney General vs. Hon. Micheal Kabaziguruka, ruled that trying civilians in military courts is unconstitutional. This decision was a pivotal step toward strengthening civilian rule and safeguarding fundamental human rights in Uganda.
- [Mathare Social Justice Centre - Who Is Next?](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/mathare-social-justice-centre-who-is-next/) - A participatory action research report against the normalization of extrajudicial executions in Mathare, Kenya. Published in 2017 by the Mathare Social Justice Centre.
- [Kenyans 4 Palestine - Press Statement - 27th July 2021](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenyans-4-palestine-press-statement-27th-july-2021/) - A press statement by the Kenyans 4 Palestine organisation dated 27th July 2021 calling for the rejection of Israel's observer status at the Africa Union.
- [Republic of South African vs State of Israel: Application Instituting Proceedings](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/republic-of-south-african-vs-state-of-israel-application-instituting-proceedings/) - An application letter from South Africa to the Registrar of the International Court of Justice regarding instituting proceedings against Israel.
- [Okoa Uchumi: Proposals for Kenya’s Austerity in FY 2024/25](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/okoa-uchumi-proposals-for-kenyas-austerity-in-fy-2024-25/) - A memorandum by the Okoa Uchumi Coalition on Kenya's Supplementary I Budget for the Financial Year 2024/25 and beyond.
- [Feasibility Report by Adani Airports Holdings Limited for the Development of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/feasibility-report-by-adani-airports-holdings-limited-for-the-development-of-jomo-kenyatta-international-airport/) - A Privately Initiated Proposal Feasibility Report by Adani Airports Holdings Limited for the Development of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
- [Statement by H.E William Ruto on Nominating the Second Batch of Cabinet](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/statement-by-h-e-william-ruto-on-nominating-the-second-batch-of-cabinet/) - A statement by H.E William Ruto given on 24th July 2024 on nominating the second batch of cabinet.
- [Kenya National Bureau of Statistics – Economic Survey 2024](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-national-bureau-of-statistics-economic-survey-2024/) - A 2024 survey published by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics.
- [Kenya National Bureau of Statistics – Economic Survey 2023](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-national-bureau-of-statistics-economic-survey-2023/) - A 2023 survey published by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics.
- [Kenya: The Finance Bill, 2024](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-the-finance-bill-2024/) - A bill published on 9th May 2024 for an Act of Parliament to amend the law relating to various taxes and duties; and for matters incidental thereto.
- [Rwanda Ministry of Health - Public Notice Banning Shisha Tobacco in Rwanda Territory](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/rwanda-ministry-of-health-public-notice-banning-shisha-tobacco-in-rwanda/) - A public notice dated 14th December 2017 issued by the Ministry of Health in Rwanda banning use, advertisement and import of water-pipe smoking known as Shisha Tobacco in Rwandan territory.
- [Kenya: Attorney General's Advisory to KRA on Collection of the Housing Levy](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-attorney-generals-advisory-to-kra-on-collection-of-the-housing-levy/) - A letter dated 21st February 2024 from the Attorney General of Kenya to the Commissioner General of the Kenya Revenue Authority on the Government's position on collection of the Housing Levy.
- [Mozilla: Comprehensive Analysis of the Start-up Ecosystem in Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/mozilla-comprehensive-analysis-of-the-start-up-ecosystem-in-africa/) - A comprehensive analysis report published by Mozilla and released in June 2023, on the Start-up Ecosystem in Africa.
- [Nairobi City County Development Control Policy - Dec 2021](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/nairobi-city-county-development-control-policy-dec-2021/) - A policy document by the Nairobi City County released in December 2021, providing parameters upon which development applications for land use and development will be evaluated and approvals granted.
- [Kenya Ministry of Education - Sessional Paper on Reforming Education and Training for Sustainable Development, December 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-ministry-of-education-sessional-paper-on-reforming-education-and-training-for-sustainable-development-december-2018/) - A sessional paper released by Kenya's Ministry of Education, Science and Technology in December 2018.
- [FSD Kenya - State of the Economy: Focus on the impact of COVID on women and education - Feb 2021](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/fsd-kenya-state-of-the-economy-focus-on-the-impact-of-covid-on-women-and-education-feb-2021/) - A presentation by FSD Kenya released in February 2020 on the state of the Kenyan economy with a focus on the impact of COVID-19 on women and education.
- [Wandia Njoya - Memorandum to the The Presidential Working Party on Education Reform Task Force](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/wandia-njoya-memorandum-to-the-the-presidential-working-party-on-education-reform-task-force/) - A memorandum dated 5th December 2022 by Prof. Wandia Njoya to the Presidential Working Party on Education Reform Task Force.
- [Statement by Pres. William S. Ruto on the New Funding Model for Higher Education](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/statement-by-pres-william-s-ruto-on-the-new-funding-model-for-higher-education/) - A statement by the president of Kenya dated 3rd May 2023.
- [International Budget Partnership Kenya: Finance Bill 2023 Education Session for Fight Inequality Alliance](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/international-budget-partnership-kenya-finance-bill-2023-education-session-for-fight-inequality-alliance/) - An education session dated 19th May 2023 by International Budget Partnership Kenya's Abraham Ochieng and Cuba Houghton for Fight Inequality Alliance.
- [The Ndung’u Report](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/the-ndungu-report/) - A six-part report of the Land Commission of Inquiry into the Illegal or Irregular Allocation of Land in Kenya, established in 2003, and published in 2004.
- [Senator Okiya Omtatah's Press Statement Opposing President's Insults and Threats to the Kenyan Judiciary](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/senator-okiya-omtatahs-press-statement-opposing-presidents-insults-and-threats-to-the-kenyan-judiciary/) - A press statement issued on 5th January 2024 by Senator Okiya Omtatah regarding Pres. William Ruto's attack on the Kenyan Judiciary.
- [TI-Kenya & Others vs DPP & Others - Petition relating to the Arror & Kimwarer Case](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/ti-kenya-others-vs-dpp-others-petition-relating-to-the-arror-kimwarer-case/) - A petition seeking accountability for the “reckless dereliction of duty” by prosecution counsel” in the Kshs 63 billion Arror and Kimwarer dams case (R v Henry Rotich & Others Milimani CMC Anticorruption Case No 20 of 2019).
- [Kenya in 2040: Mapping Kenya's Future - Four Different Scenarios](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-in-2040-mapping-kenyas-future-four-different-scenarios/) - A report by the Institute of Economic Affairs on possible scenarios on Kenya in 2040.
- [African Charter for Popular Participation in Development and Transformation (1990)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/african-charter-for-popular-participation-in-development-and-transformation-1990/) - A publication containing the African Charter for Popular Participation in Development and Transformation which was adopted by acclamation by the participants of the International Conference on Popular Participation in the Recovery and Development Process in Africa, held in Arusha Tanzania in 1990.
- [Hesabika Trust - Code of Conduct for Churches in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/hesabika-trust-code-of-conduct-for-churches-in-kenya/) - A proposed code of conduct for churches in Kenya, published by Hesabika Trust in March 2023.
- [Kenya - National Treasury and Economic Planning - Medium Term Debt Management Strategy 2023](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-national-treasury-and-economic-planning-medium-term-debt-management-strategy-2023/) - The Medium Term Debt Management Strategy 2023 document published by The National Treasury and Economic Planning.
- [Kenya - The National Treasury and Economic Planning - 2023 Budget Policy Statement](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-the-national-treasury-and-economic-planning-2023-budget-policy-statement/) - A 2023 Budget Policy Statement by The National Treasury and Economic Planning.
- [NACADA - National Survey on the Status of Drugs and Substance Use in Kenya 2022](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/nacada-national-survey-on-the-status-of-drugs-and-substance-use-in-kenya-2022/) - A publication by Kenya's National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse on the state of drugs and substance abuse in Kenya.
- [High Commission of Canada in Kenya letter to Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding Miguna Miguna](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/high-commission-of-canada-in-kenya-letter-to-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-regarding-miguna-miguna/) - High Commission of Canada in Kenya letter to Ministry of Foreign Affairs dated 5th February 2018, regarding Miguna Miguna.
- [2016 Letter by Independent Columnists with the Nation Media Group to The Aga Khan](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/2016-letter-by-independent-columnists-with-the-nation-media-group-to-the-aga-khan/) - A confidential letter dated 31st March 2016 to The Aga Khan by Independent Columnists with the Nation Media Group.
- [Letter by US Senators to US Government on IMF China Belt and Road Initiative](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/letter-by-us-senators-to-us-government-on-imf-china-belt-and-road-initiative/) - A letter from US Senators of the US Congress to Finance Minister Mchin and Secretary of State Pompeo, urging the Trump administration to elaborate on the measures the United States is taking to deal with the CCP’s “One Belt, One Road” issue that has caused many countries to fall into the debt trap.
- [Request for Information by CSOs Regarding BBI and the Building Bridges Advisory Taskforce](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/request-for-information-by-csos-regarding-bbi-and-the-building-bridges-advisory-taskforce/) - A request for information letter published on 18th December 2019 by Katiba Institute, ICJ Kenya and MUHURI to the Secretary to Cabinet regarding BBI and Building Bridges to Unity Advisory Taskforce.
- [Okoa Uchumi Campaign: Letter to IMF Africa Mission to Kenya - 16th May 2023](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/okoa-uchumi-campaign-letter-to-imf-africa-mission-to-kenya-16th-may-2023/) - A letter by the Okoa Uchumi Campaign of Civil Society Organisations in Kenya to the IMF Africa Mission Chief Ms. Haimanot Teferra.
- [Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Newsletter on SGR - June 2014](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/ministry-of-transport-and-infrastructure-newsletter-on-sgr-june-2014/) - Standard Guage Railway: Forging new frontier in railway development in Kenya and the region.
- [World Bank Report - The Economics of Rail Gauge in the East African Community](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/world-bank-report-the-economics-of-rail-gauge-in-the-east-african-community/) - A World Bank report dated 8th August 2013 on the economics of rail gauge in the East African Community.
- [Kenya Railways Annual Report & Financial Statements for the financial year ended 30th June, 2015](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-railways-annual-report-financial-statements-for-the-financial-year-ended-30th-june-2015/) - Annual Report & Financial Statements for the financial year ended 30th June 2015.
- [Cargo Loads via SGR Rail Transport - 1st January - 30th April 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/cargo-loads-via-sgr-rail-transport-1st-january-30th-april-2018/) - A document by Kenya Railways showing cargo loads via SGR rail transport during the period 1st January - 30th April 2018
- [Summary of Cargo Loads via SGR Rail Transport - 1st January - 30th April 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/summary-of-cargo-loads-via-sgr-rail-transport-1st-january-30th-april-2018/) - A summary document by Kenya Railways showing cargo loads via SGR rail transport during the period 1st January - 30th April 2018
- [Statement by Kenya Editors Guild on Direct Threats By Jubilee Government Against the Media](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/statement-by-kenya-editors-guild-on-direct-threats-by-jubilee-government-against-the-media/) - Press statement dated 29th January 2018 by Kenya Editors Guild Chairman Linus Kaikai on direct threats by Jubilee government against the media.
- [Media Council of Kenya Press Statement: Let the media do their work](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/media-council-of-kenya-press-statement-let-the-media-to-their-work/) - A press statement released on 31st January 2018 by the Media Council of Kenya on the shutdown of media in Kenya.
- [WE REFUSE TO BE SILENCED: Statement by independent columnists](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/we-refuse-to-be-silenced-statement-by-independent-columnists/) - A statement dated 27th March 2017 by 8 independent columnists formerly associated with the Nation Media Group.
- [Nation Media Group’s statement on withdrawal by columnists](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/nation-media-groups-statement-on-withdrawal-by-columnists/) - A press statement dated 27th March 2018 by Nation Media Group on withdrawal by columnists
- [Chief Justice Maraga - Internal Memo on Suspects' Appearance in Court](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/chief-justice-maraga-internal-memo-on-suspects-appearance-in-court/) - An internal memo from Chief Justice Maraga to all judges, magistrates and khadis regarding suspects' appearance in court.
- [Internal Memo From Chief Registrar of Judiciary on Court Operations in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/internal-memo-from-chief-registrar-of-judiciary-on-court-operations-in-kenya/) - An internal memo issued on 23rd March 2020 by Kenya's Chief Registrar of the Judiciary on further directions on court operations in mitigating the effects of COVID-19.
- [Head of Public Service Circular on Compliance With Workplace Guidelines on COVID-19](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/head-of-public-service-circular-on-compliance-with-workplace-guidelines-on-covid-19/) - A circular released on 20th July 2020 by Head of Public Service Mr. Joseph Kinya on compliance with workplace guidelines on coronavirus in Kenya.
- [Kenya Council of Governors  - Impending Shutdown Occassioned by Lack of Resources](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-council-of-governors-impending-shutdown-occassioned-by-lack-of-resources/) - A circular released on 16th September 2020 by the Chair, Kenya Council of Governors addressed to all governors on impending county government shutdowns.
- [Ipsos Kenya SPEC Barometer 2nd QTR 2018 Press Release](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/ipsos-kenya-spec-barometer-2nd-qtr-2018-press-release/) - A press release issued by researcher Ipsos.
- [Infotrak Voice of the People Poll - August 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/infotrak-voice-of-the-people-poll-august-2018/) - An Infotrak and Africa Centre for Open Governance (AfriCOG) opinion poll released on 26th August 2018.
- [Infotrack COVID-19 Poll - June 2020](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/infotrack-covid-19-poll-june-2020/) - A poll conducted by Infotrack between 28th May and 2nd June 2020 on the effects on COVID-19 in Kenya.
- [TIFA Research - Round 2 Survey on the COVID-19 Global Pandemic in Nairobi’s Low Income Areas - June 2020](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/tifa-research-round-2-survey-on-the-covid-19-global-pandemic-in-nairobis-low-income-areas-june-2020/) - A survey carried out by TIFA Research and released on 7th June 2020.
- [The grabbed state: lawyers, politics and public land in Kenya*](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/the-grabbed-state-lawyers-politics-and-public-land-in-kenya/) - A publication authored by Ambreena Manji in September 2012.
- [The Ndung'u Report: Annexe Vol. 1](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/the-ndungu-report-annexe-vol-1/) - Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Illegal/Irregular Allocation of Public Land (in Kenya) presented to President Mwai Kibaki June 2004. Companies, Road By-Passes, Road Reserves, Municipalities, Parastatals, Ministries and Settlement Schemes.
- [The Ndung'u Report: Annexe Vol. 2](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/the-ndungu-report-annexe-vol-2/) - Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Illegal/Irregular Allocation of Public Land (in Kenya) presented to President Mwai Kibaki June 2004. Forests, Complaints from the Public and Detailed Proposals on Implementation of the Commission's Report.
- [The Ndung'u Report: Annexe Vol. 3](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/the-ndungu-report-annexe-vol-3/) - Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Illegal/Irregular Allocation of Public Land (in Kenya) presented to President Mwai Kibaki June 2004. Observations and Recommendations of the Commission of inquiry.
- [Ufungamano  - Joint Forum for Religious Organisations Press Statement on the MPs' Salaries and Public Wage Bill](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/ufungamano-joint-forum-for-religious-organisations-press-statement-on-the-mps-salaries-and-public-wage-bill/) - Ufungamano - Joint Forum for Religious Organisations Press Statement dated 20th December 2017 on the MPs' Salaries and Public Wage Bill
- [National Religious Leaders Convocation Press Statement](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/national-religious-leaders-convocation-press-statement/) - A press statement issued on 28th February 2018 by the National Religious Leaders Convocation. National Reconciliation: The Role of Religious Leaders
- [Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops Press Release on High Cost of Living](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-conference-of-catholic-bishops-press-release-on-high-cost-of-living/) - A press statement released on 3rd September 2018 by the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops on the high cost of living in Kenya.
- [Angola's Killing Fields: A report on extrajudicial executions in Luanda 2016-2017](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/angolas-killing-fields-a-report-on-extrajudicial-executions-in-luanda-2016-2017/) - This report by Rafael Marques de Morais details 50 cases of the summary executions of 92 people carried out between April 2016 and November 2017 in the suburbs of the Angolan capital, Luanda, by individuals identified as agents of the Criminal Investigation Service (known by the Portuguese acronym as SIC) serving under the command of Commissioner Eugénio Pedro Alexandre.
- [Reforming health systems: the role of NGOs in Decentralization – lessons from Kenya and Ethiopia](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/reforming-health-systems-the-role-of-ngos-in-decentralization-lessons-from-kenya-and-ethiopia/) - Working paper by Richard G. Wamai, Ph.D. (Harvard School of Public Health, Boston USA)
- [Nigeria Presidential Petition 2023 - Peter Obi and Labour Party vs INEC and Others](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/nigeria-presidential-petition-2023-peter-obi-and-labour-party-vs-inec-and-others/) - A presidential petition dated 20th March 2023 filed by Peter Obi & Labour Party vs INEC & Others challenging the results on the 2023 General Election in Nigeria.
- [Nairobi High Court Petition No. HCCHRPET/E252/2023 - Maandamano Petition](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/nairobi-high-court-petition-no-hcchrpet-e252-2023-maandamano-petition/) - A Nairobi High Court petition filed by Martin Gitau seeking to outlaw Azimio mass protests.
- [London Business School - The Economics of a Pandemic: the case of COVID-19](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/london-business-school-the-economics-of-a-pandemic-the-case-of-covid-19/) - A presentation on COVID-19 by Paolo Surico and Andrea Galeotti, Professors of Economics at London Business School.
- [Nigeria - Tribunal Order Suspending Chief Justice Walter S C Onnoghen](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/nigeria-tribunal-order-suspending-chief-justice-walter-s-c-onnoghen/) - A Code of Conduct Tribunal order dated 23rd January 2019 suspending Nigeria's Chief Justice Walter S C Onnoghen over allegations of contravening provisions of the Code of Conduct and Tribunal Act.
- [Statement by Nigerian Bar Association on suspension of Chief Justice Onnoghen](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/statement-by-nigerian-bar-association-on-suspension-of-chief-justice-onnoghen/) - A statement issued on 25th January 2019 by the Nigerian Bar Association on the suspension of Chief Justice Onnoghen.
- [Undercurrents of Post-Election Violence in Kenya: Issues in the Long-Term Agenda](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/undercurrents-of-post-election-violence-in-kenya-issues-in-the-long-term-agenda/) - A paper published in 2010 by John O. Oucho on post-election violence in Kenya.
- [Kenya Tuitakayo - The People's Charter](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-tuitakayo-the-peoples-charter/) - A people's charter containing ten issues affecting Kenyans the most and which need to be addressed.
- [US Africa Command - Al-Shabaab Degraded by U.S., Federal Government of Somalia](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/us-africa-command-al-shabaab-degraded-by-u-s-federal-government-of-somalia/) - A press release dated 20th November 2018 issued by US Africa Command regarding two airstrikes in the vicinity of Debatscile, Somalia targeting al-Shabaab militants on November 19, 2018.
- [Petition 16 of 2016 - Judgement (Methodist Church v. Fugicha)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/petition-16-of-2016-judgement-methodist-church-v-fugicha/) - A supreme court judgement delivered on 23rd January 2019 in a petition filed by Methodist Church in Kenya vs Mohamed Fugicha and 3 others.
- [The Finance Bill, 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/the-finance-bill-2018/) - AN ACT of Parliament to amend the law relating to various taxes and duties and for matters incidental thereto
- [Institute of Economic Affairs: Memorandum on Kenya's Finance Bill 2023](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/institute-of-economic-affairs-memorandum-on-kenyas-finance-bill-2023/) - A memorandum dated 19th May 2023 by the Institute of Economic Affairs with views on Kenya's Finance Bill 2023 (National Assembly Bill 14 of 2013).
- [OAG - KPA Management Letter for the Financial & Compliance Audit June 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/oag-kpa-management-letter-for-the-financial-compliance-audit-june-2018/) - A management letter dated 16th November 2018 from Office of the Auditor General's letter to Kenya Ports Authority for the Financial and Compliance Audit performed for the year ending 30th June 2018.
- [ICPAK Press Statement on the Fight Against Corruption](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/icpak-press-statement-on-the-fight-against-corruption/) - A press statement dated 3rd June 2018 issued by ICPAK on the fight against corruption.
- [08th Jan 2019 MoFPED Press Release – Public Debt of Uganda](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/08th-jan-2019-mofped-press-release-public-debt-of-uganda/) - A press release issued on 8th January 2019 by the Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development regarding Uganda's public debt.
- [KMPDU Position on Importation of Doctors From Cuba](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kmpdu-position-on-importation-of-doctors-from-cuba/) - A press statement released on 30th April 2018 stating Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists & Dentists (KMPDU) position on the importation of doctors from Cuba.
- [Kenya Mental Health Policy 2015-2030](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-mental-health-policy-2015-2030/) - The Kenya Health Policy, 2015 – 2030 gives directions to ensure significant reduction in the overall ill health in Kenya in line with the country’s Vision 2030 and the Kenya Constitution, 2010.
- [Thabo Mbeki Foundation - What Then About Land Expropriation Without Compensation?](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/thabo-mbeki-foundation-what-then-about-land-expropriation-without-compensation/) - A 30-page leaked document dated September 2018 by the Thabo Mbeki Foundation on land and the national question in South Africa.
- [Africa's Pulse: An Analysis of Issues Shaping Africa’s Economic Future](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/africas-pulse-an-analysis-of-issues-shaping-africas-economic-future/) - A report published by the World Bank Group's Office of the Chief Economist for the Africa Region in April 2019.
- [Ufungamano Press Statement - Lowering the public wage bill and reducing the size of Government](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/ufungamo-press-statement-lowering-the-public-wage-bill/) - A press statement released on 24th May 2018 by Ufungamano - Joint Forum of Religious Organisations
- [Kenya Aviation Workers Union Press Statement on Challenges Facing Kenyan Aviation Industry](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-aviation-workers-union-press-statement-on-challenges-facing-kenyan-aviation-industry/) - A press statement issued on 29th February 2019 by Moss Ndiema, Secretary General - Kenya Aviation Workers Union related to challenged facing Kenya's aviation industry.
- [Urban Planning for City Leaders - UN Habitat](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/urban-planning-for-city-leaders-un-habitat/) - A handbook for Kenya released on 25th September 2018 by UN-Habitat.
- [The Uganda Constitution (Amendment) Act, 2017](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/the-uganda-constitution-amendment-act-2017/) - The Uganda Constitution (Amendment) Act, 2017 assented to by President Yoweri Museveni on 27th December 2017.
- [Uganda Human Rights Commission Statement on Findings From Visit to Detained MPs](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/uganda-human-rights-commission-statement-on-findings-from-visit-to-detained-mps/) - A statement released on 17th August 2018 by the Uganda Human Rights Commission on findings from a visit to detained MPs at Makindye Military Barracks, Kampala, Uganda.
- [East African Law Society Press Statement on Situation in Uganda](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/east-african-law-society-press-statement-on-situation-in-uganda/) - A press statement issued by the East African Law Society on the state of the rule of law and human rights in the Republic of Uganda.
- [Uganda Cabinet Decisions taken during meeting held on 10th September 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/uganda-cabinet-decisions-taken-during-meeting-held-on-10th-september-2018/) - Uganda Cabinet meeting decisions of September 10 2018, reached at State House Entebbe under the Chairmanship of H.E Yoweri Museveni.
- [KNCHR - The Error of Fighting Terror with Terror](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/knchr-the-error-of-fighting-terror-with-terror/) - A preliminary report published in September 2015 by KNCHR regarding investigations on human rights abuses in the ongoing crackdown against terrorism.
- [Computer and Cyber Crimes Bill, 2017](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/computer-and-cyber-crimes-bill-2017/) - A Bill for AN ACT of Parliament to provide for offences relating to computer systems; to enable timely and effective detection, investigation and prosecution of computer and cybercrimes; to facilitate international co-operation in dealing with computer and cybercrime matters; and for connected purposes.
- [Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act, 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/computer-misuse-and-cybercrimes-act-2018/) - An Act of Parliament to provide for offences relating to computer systems; to enable timely and effective detection, investigation and prosecution of computer and cybercrimes; to facilitate international co-operation in dealing with computer and cybercrime matters; and for connected purposes.
- [Constitutional Petition No. 196 of 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/constitutional-petition-no-196-of-2018/) - A petition filed on 21st May 2018 between Geoffrey Maina (Petitioner) versus The Attorney General and three others regarding the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act (2018)
- [How Africa Tweets 2018 - Portland Communications](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/how-africa-tweets-2018-portland-communications/) - A report published by Portland Communications in July 2018 on how Africa uses Twitter
- [The Warioba Report - Presidential Commission on Corruption (1996) - Tanzania](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/report-on-the-presidential-commission-on-corruption-1996-tanzania/) - A report by the Tanzanian Presidential Commission on Corruption (also known as the Warioba Report) published in December 1996.
- [Cancellation of Family Planning Broadcasts in Tanzania](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/cancellation-of-family-planning-broadcasts-in-tanzania/) - A letter dated 19th September 2018 from PS Health (Tanzania) to Chief of Party FHI360, USAID ordering the stop of publishing family planning content.
- [SPLM Leaders (Former Political Detainees) Press Release - 9th October 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/splm-leaders-former-political-detainees-press-release-9th-october-2018/) - A press release dated 9th October 2018 by the SPLM Leaders (Former Political Detainees) ratifying the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan.
- [Open Data in Developing Economies](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/open-data-in-developing-economies/) - A report by The GovLab released in July 2017 on using Open Data toward building an evidence base on what works and how.
- [World Justice Project Rule of Law Index 2017–2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/world-justice-project-rule-of-law-index-2017-2018/) - The World Justice Project (WJP) Rule of Law Index 2017–2018 is the seventh report in an annual series, which measures the rule of law based on the experiences and perceptions of the general public and in-country experts worldwide.
- [Transparency International - Corruption Perceptions Index 2017](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/transparency-international-corruption-perceptions-index-2017/) - An index released on 21st February 2018 by Transparency International revealing some disturbing information – despite attempts to combat corruption around the world, the majority of countries are moving too slowly in their efforts.
- [Mo Ibrahim Foundation - Public Service Report 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/mo-ibrahim-foundation-public-service-report-2018/) - A 2018 report published by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation on public service delivery.
- [Gender Issues in Uganda: An analysis of gender-based violence, asset ownership and employment](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/gender-issues-in-uganda-an-analysis-of-gender-based-violence-asset-ownership-and-employment/) - A report published in March 2019 by Uganda Bureau of Statistics, Ugandan Ministry of Gender Labour and Social Development, Economic Policy Research Centre, the Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group and UN Women, providing friendly facts on sex-disaggregated information on prominent gender issues on GBV specifically physical and sexual, asset ownership and employment in Uganda.
- [Joint Statement by the Heads of Mission in Kenya on Corruption](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/joint-statement-by-the-heads-of-mission-in-kenya-on-corruption/) - A press statement issued on 30th May 2018 by the Heads of Mission in Kenya on corruption.
- [President Uhuru Kenyatta - Refusal to Assent to the Finance Bill, 2018 Memorandum](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/president-uhuru-kenyatta-refusal-to-assent-to-the-finance-bill-2018-memorandum/) - A memorandum issued by President Uhuru Kenyatta on 13th September 2018 on refusal to assent to the Finance Bill, 2018.
- [EU Parliament Resolutions on Uganda, arrest of parliamentarians from the opposition](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/eu-parliament-resolutions-on-uganda-arrest-of-parliamentarians-from-the-opposition/) - European Parliament resolution of 13 September 2018 on Uganda, arrest of parliamentarians from the opposition (2018/2840(RSP)).
- [Report of the Inspection Visit to Riparian Areas within Nairobi County - June 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/report-of-the-inspection-visit-to-riparian-areas-within-nairobi-county-june-2018/) - A report by the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources of the National Assembly released in June 2018.
- [Declassified US State Department Memo on 2007 Kenya Election](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/declassified-us-state-department-memo-on-2007-kenya-election/) - Declassified US State Department memo of Jan 3, 2008 telecon between Secretary Rice and H.R. Javier Solana reporting US and UK push on resistant Kibaki to share power. http://bit.ly/2DZX0Qm
- [Press Release by Allen Gichuhi (Candidate for LSK President 2018 - 2020) Regarding Media Shutdown](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/press-release-by-allen-gichuhi-candidate-for-lsk-president-2018-2020-regarding-media-shutdown/) - A press release dated 30th January 2018 by Allen Gichuhi (Candidate for LSK President 2018 - 2020) on media houses shut down by Communications Authority of Kenya.
- [ICJ Kenya Press Release on Media Shut Down](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/icj-kenya-press-release-on-media-shut-down/) - International Commission of Jurists Kenya Chapter press release dated 30th January 2018 on the media shutdown.
- [EAC-EOM Preliminary Statement](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/eac-eom-preliminary-statement/) - EAC Election Observer Mission preliminary statement dated 28th August 2017
- [ELOG Preliminary Statement](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/elog-preliminary-statement/) - ELOG preliminary statement dated 27th October 2017.
- [EU EOM Kenya 2017 Preliminary Statement - Press Release](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/eu-eom-kenya-2017-preliminary-statement-press-release/) - EU EOM Kenya 2017 Preliminary Statement - Press Release
- [Oct 31. EU EOM Kenya 2017 Preliminary Statement](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/oct-31-eu-eom-kenya-2017-preliminary-statement/) - EU EOM Kenya 2017 Preliminary Statement released on 31st October 2017.
- [Statement by the EEAS Spokesperson on the Kenyan Supreme Court ruling](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/statement-by-the-eeas-spokesperson-on-the-kenyan-supreme-court-ruling/) - Statement by the European External Action Service Spokesperson dated 20th November 2017 on the Kenyan Supreme Court ruling.
- [Press release: EU EOM final report, 10 January 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/press-release-eu-eom-final-report-10-january-2018/) - Press release with the EU EOM final report, with embedded links to the report and video press conference held on 10 January 2018
- [EU Election Observation Mission Final Report on Kenya General Elections 2017](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/eu-election-observation-mission-final-report-on-kenya-general-elections-2017/) - This report contains the findings of the EU Election Observation Mission (EOM) on the general elections 2017 in Kenya.
- [World Bank - Policy Research Working Paper 7461](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/world-bank-policy-reseach-working-paper-7461/) - Bright Lights, Big Cities. Measuring National and Subnational Economic Growth in Africa from Outer Space, with an Application to Kenya and Rwanda. Released October 2015
- [IMF Kenya Country Report No. 16/85](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/imf-kenya-country-report-no-16-85/) - Second reviews under the stand-by arrangement and the arrangement under the standby credit facility, and requests for a new twenty-four month stand-by arrangement, and a new twenty-four month arrangement under the standby credit facility—press release; Staff report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Kenya
- [Kenya National Bureau of Statistics - Economic Survey 2017](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-national-bureau-of-statistics-economic-survey-2017/) - A 2017 survey published by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics.
- [Central Bank of Kenya Press Release - Monetary Policy Committee Meeting](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/central-bank-of-kenya-press-release-monetary-policy-committee-meeting/) - Central Bank of Kenya press release dated 23rd November 2017.
- [Facts & Figures on Kenya’s Public Debt: Implications for The Economy](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/facts-figures-on-kenyas-public-debt-implications-for-the-economy/) - A presentation on Kenya's Public Debt by the Institute of Economic Affairs Kenya at the ICPAK Economic Symposium 2018.
- [IMF Press Release: IMF Staff Concludes Visit to Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/imf-press-release-imf-staff-concludes-visit-to-kenya/) - IMF press release published on 7th March 2018
- [Request for extension of the stand-by arrangement - Press Release and Staff Report](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/request-for-extension-of-the-stand-by-arrangement-press-release-and-staff-report/) - A Press Release and The Staff Report prepared by a staff team of the IMF for the Executive Board’s consideration on a lapse of time basis, following discussions that ended on March 2, 2018, with the officials of Kenya on economic developments and policies. Based on information available at the time of these discussions, the staff report was completed on March 7, 2018.
- [IMF Executive Board Approves New Arrangements for Kenya Totaling US$1.5 billion](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/imf-executive-board-approves-new-arrangements-for-kenya-totaling-us1-5-billion/) - A press release issued on 14th March 2018 by the IMF on approval of Kenya's request to extend stand-by agreement by 6 months.
- [Rwanda Development Board Annual Report 2017](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/rwanda-development-board-annual-report-2017/) - Rwanda Development Board's 2017 Annual Report released on 27th April 2018.
- [World Bank Group - Doing Business 2019 Report](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/world-bank-group-doing-business-2019-report/) - A report released on 31st October 2018 by the World Bank Group, comparing business regulation for domestic firms in 190 economies.
- [UNODC World Drug Report 2017 Executive Summary](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/unodc-world-drug-report-2017-executive-summary/) - Executive summary of the UNODC World Drug Report 2017
- [Global Overview of Drug Demand and Supply - UNODC World Drug Report 2017](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/global-overview-of-drug-demand-and-supply-unodc-world-drug-report-2017/) - [pdf-embedder url="https://www.theelephant.info/uploads/2018/01/Booklet_2_HEALTH.pdf"]
- [The Cannabis Market - UNODC World Drug Report 2017](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/the-cannabis-market-unodc-world-drug-report-2017/) - The Cannabis Market
- [Market Analysis of Synthetic Drugs - UNODC World Drug Report 2017](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/market-analysis-of-synthetic-drugs-unodc-world-drug-report-2017/) - Market Analysis of Synthetic Drugs
- [The Drug Problem and Organized Crime, Illicit Financial Flows, Corruption and Terrorism - UNODC World Drug Report 2017](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/the-drug-problem-and-organized-crime-illicit-financial-flows-corruption-and-terrorism-unodc-world-drug-report-2017/) - The Drug Problem and Organized Crime, Illicit Financial Flows, Corruption and Terrorism.
- [Freedom in the World 2018 Report: Democracy in Crisis](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/freedom-in-the-world-2018-report-democracy-in-crisis/) - This Freedom House report is a summary of findings for the 2018 edition of Freedom in the World. The complete analysis including narrative reports on all countries and territories can be found at www.freedomhouse.org.
- [Nairobi City County Annual Development Plan (CADP) 2019/2020](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/nairobi-city-county-annual-development-plan-cadp-2019-2020/) - The annual development plan for Nairobi City County for the years 2019 - 2020, released in August 2018.
- [Joint Statement on the Imperatives of Establishing Facts and Extending the Mandate of the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/joint-statement-on-the-imperatives-of-establishing-facts-and-extending-the-mandate-of-the-international-commission-of-human-rights-experts-on-ethiopia/) - A joint statement dated 25th August 2023 issued by a coalition of 53 organizations called the Constituency for Accountability on the Imperatives of establishing facts and extending the mandate of the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia.
- [The African Leaders Nairobi Declaration on Climate Change and Call to Action](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/the-african-leaders-nairobi-declaration-on-climate-change-and-call-to-action/) - A declaration made on 6th September 2023 by African leaders attending the Africa Climate Summit 2023.
- [Joint Statement by Tigray Organizations on the Brutal Murder of Zewdu Haftu](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/joint-statement-by-tigray-organizations-on-the-brutal-murder-of-zewdu-haftu/) - A joint statement by Tigray Organizations on the brutal murder of Zewdu Haftu.
- [XV BRICS Summit Johannesburg II Declaration](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/xv-brics-summit-johannesburg-ii-declaration/) - A declaration dated 23 August 2023 by BRICS nations on the partnership for mutually accelerated growth, sustainable development and Inclusive multilateralism in Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa.
- [County Government of Kisumu: Press Statement on the Kisumu/Kericho Border Conflict](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/county-government-of-kisumu-press-statement-on-the-kisumu-kericho-border-conflict/) - A press statement issued on 17th August 2023 by the Governor of Kisumu County on the ongoing Kisumu/Kericho border conflict.
- [Fumbua: Online Health Scams for Sale](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/fumbua-online-health-scams-for-sale/) - A report by Fumbua on how Google, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram allow dangerous health products to be targeted at Kenyan women. and make money from it.
- [Morticians and Allied Professionals Association of Kenya - Press Statement on Claim of Hiring Dead Bodies](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/morticians-and-allied-professionals-association-of-kenya-press-statement-on-claim-of-hiring-dead-bodies/) - A press statement by the Morticians and Allied Professionals Association of Kenya on the statement made by the Inspector General of Police regarding the mass protests in Kenya.
- [KHRC & MUHURI: Press Statement Condemning Kenya's Act of Signing the Maputo Protocol](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/khrc-muhuri-press-statement-condemning-kenyas-act-of-signing-the-maputo-protocol/) - A press statement by the Kenya Human Rights Commission and MUHURI on Kenya's act of signing the Maputo Protocol.
- [Amnesty International Kenya, Kenya Medical Association and the Law Society of Kenya Press Statement on Human Rights Violations in Kisumu and Kisii Counties](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/amnesty-international-kenya-kenya-medical-association-and-the-law-society-of-kenya-press-statement-on-human-rights-violations-in-kisumu-and-kisii-counties/) - A press statement issued by Amnesty International Kenya, Kenya Medical Association and the Law Society of Kenya on the human rights situation in Kisumu and Kisii Counties post the anti-government protests.
- [Kenya: Office of the Leader of the Majority Party Press Statement on Dialogue](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-office-of-the-leader-of-the-majority-party-press-statement-on-dialogue/) - A press statement issued by Leader of Majority Kimani Ichungwa on behalf of the Kenya Kwanza Coalition regarding dialogue talks in Kenya.
- [Civil Appeal No. E304 of 2023 - Ruling of the Court on Implementation of Finance Act 2023](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/civil-appeal-no-e304-of-2023-ruling-of-the-court-on-implementation-of-finance-act-2023/) - A Court of Appeal ruling dated 28th July 2023 lifting the suspension of the implementation of the Finance Act 2023.
- [Kenya: National Computer & Cybercrimes Coordination Committee Advisory on DDoS Attack](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-national-computer-cybercrimes-coordination-committee-advisory-on-ddos-attack/) - An advisory by the National Computer & Cybercrimes Coordination Committee Advisory to the Kenya Education Network Trust on an ongoing Distributed Denial of Service attack targetting at Kenyan banking and educational institutions.
- [198 Methods of Non-Violent Action](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/198-methods-of-non-violent-action/) - Far too often people struggling for democratic rights and justice are not aware of the full range of methods of nonviolent action. Wise strategy, attention to the dynamics of nonviolent struggle, and careful selection of methods can increase a group’s chances of success. Gene Sharp’s researched and catalogued these 198 methods and provided a rich selection of historical examples in his seminal work, The Politics of Nonviolent Action (3 Vols.) Boston: Porter Sargent, 1973.
- [Azimio La Umoja Press Statement of 25th July 2023](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/azimio-la-umoja-press-statement-of-25th-july-2023/) - A press statement by the Azimio La Umoja Coalition on the planned national vigil of 26th July 2023.
- [Ministry of Interior and National Administration Press Statement on Mass Protests](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/ministry-of-interior-and-national-administration-press-statement-on-mass-protests/) - A press statement issued on 25th July 2023 by CS Kindiki Kithure of the Ministry of Interior and National Administration.
- [Azimio La Umoja Press Statement of 24th July 2023](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/azimio-la-umoja-press-statement-of-24th-july-2023/) - A press statement by the Azimio La Umoja coalition dated 24th July 2023 calling for peaceful countrywide vigil for the victims of the mass protests in Kenya.
- [Law Society of Kenya Press Statement on the Return of the Dark Days of Repression](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/law-society-of-kenya-press-statement-on-the-return-of-the-dark-days-of-repression/) - A press statement by the Law Society of Kenya dated 24th July 2023 on the return of the dark days of government repression.
- [Joint Civil Society Statement on Pertinent Electoral Issues in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/joint-civil-society-statement-on-pertinent-electoral-issues-in-kenya/) - A press statement issued on 23rd July 2023 by a coalition of civil society organisations.
- [IPOA: Press Statement on Police Conduct During the Mass Protests in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/ipoa-press-statement-on-police-conduct-during-the-mass-protests-in-kenya/) - A press statement issued on 22nd July 2023 by the Independent Policing and Oversight Authority (IPOA) on police conduct during the recent mass protests in Kenya.
- [Civil Society Coalition Press Statement on Police Brutality and Mass Protests in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/civil-society-coalition-press-statement-on-police-brutality-and-mass-protests-in-kenya/) - A press statement issued by a coalition of 30 Civil Society Organizations on the recent cases of police brutality during the mass protests in Kenya.
- [Statement by SC Fred Ojiambo Chair Senior Counsel Bar on Re-Arrest of Persons Admitted to Bail](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/statement-by-sc-fred-ojiambo-chair-senior-counsel-bar-on-re-arrest-of-persons-admitted-to-bail/) - A press statement by the Chair of the Chair Senior Counsel Bar, SC Fred Ojiambo on the re-arrest of persons released on bail.
- [Kenya: Ministry of Interior & National Administration - Press Statement on Illegal Firearms Operation](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-ministry-of-interior-national-administration-press-statement-on-illegal-firearms-operation/) - A press statement issued on 21st July 2023 by Cabinet Secretary Kindiki Kithure on an ongoing illegal firearms operation.
- [National Dialogue Forum Press Statement on the State of the Nation](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/national-dialogue-forum-press-statement-on-the-state-of-the-nation/) - A press statement issued on 21st July 2023 from the National Dialogue Forum, a coalition of representatives from religious institutions, on the state of the nation.
- [Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops: Press Statement of 19th July 2023 on Public Protests](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-conference-of-catholic-bishops-press-statement-of-19th-july-2023-on-public-protests/) - A press statement by the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops on the public protests in Kenya.
- [Kenya: Ministry of Interior and National Administration - Closure of Schools in Nairobi and Mombasa Counties Due to Planned Protests](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-ministry-of-interior-and-national-administration-closure-of-schools-in-nairobi-and-mombasa-counties-due-to-planned-protests/) - A press statement issued by Kenya's Cabinet Secretaries Kithure Kindiki and Ezekiel Machogu on the closure of all day primary and secondary schools in Nairobi and Mombasa Counties due to the planned mass protests on 19th July 2023.
- [Kenya National Police Service: Press Statement on Public Demonstrations of 19th July 2023](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-national-police-service-press-statement-on-public-demonstrations-of-19th-july-2023/) - A press statement issued by Kenya's Inspector General of Police regarding the planned public demonstrations of 19th July 2023.
- [Kenya: The Forest Conservation and Management Act No. 34 of 2016](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-the-forest-conservation-and-management-act-no-34-of-2016/) - An Act of Parliament to give effect to Article 69 of the Constitution with regard to forest resources; to provide for the development and sustainable management, including conservation and rational utilization of all forest resources for the socio-economic development of the country and for connected purposes.
- [African Union - Draft Declaration of the 5th Mid-Year Coordination Meeting Between the African Union, The Regional Economic Communities and the Regional Mechanisms](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/african-union-draft-declaration-of-the-5th-mid-year-coordination-meeting-between-the-african-union-the-regional-economic-communities-and-the-regional-mechanisms/) - A Draft Declaration issued on 16th July 2023 at the 5th Mid-Year Coordination Meeting Between the African Union, The Regional Economic Communities and the Regional Mechanisms.
- [Raila Odinga: Those Killed and Arrested by Ruto are Martyrs and Political Prisoners](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/raila-odinga-those-killed-and-arrested-by-ruto-are-martyrs-and-political-prisoners/) - A press statement by Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga on the deaths and arrests associated with the mass protests of 12th July 2023.
- [IPOA: Press Statement on Investigations into Police Conduct During Kenya's Mass Protests](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/ipoa-press-statement-on-investigations-into-police-conduct-during-kenyas-mass-protests/) - A press statement issued on 13th July 2023 by Kenya's Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) on investigating police conduct during the 12th July mass protests in Kenya.
- [Ministry of Interior and National Administration: Press Statement on Kenya's Mass Protests of 12th July 2023](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/ministry-of-interior-and-national-administration-press-statement-on-kenyas-mass-protests-of-12th-july-2023/) - A press statement issued by Kenya's Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration on the mass protests of 12th July 2023.
- [Comment by UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson Jeremy Laurence on Kenya Protests](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/comment-by-un-human-rights-office-spokesperson-jeremy-laurence-on-kenya-protests/) - A press statement dated 14th July 2023 by the UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson Jeremy Laurence on Kenya protests.
- [KNCHR Press Statement on Kenya's Anti-Government Protests](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/knchr-press-statement-on-kenyas-anti-government-protests/) - A press statement issued on 13th July 2023 by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights on the mass protests in Kenya.
- [National Gender & Equality Commission - Press Statement on Kenya's Anti-Government Protests - 13th July 2023](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/national-gender-equality-commission-press-statement-on-kenyas-anti-government-protests-13th-july-2023/) - A press release issued on 13th July 2023 by the National Gender & Equality Commission on Kenya's Anti-Government Protests.
- [County Government of Kericho: Press Statement on Politically Instigated Violence in Sondu](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/county-government-of-kericho-press-statement-on-politically-instigated-violence-in-sondu/) - A press statement dated 13th July 2023 by the Governor of Kericho on the politically instigated violence in Sondu.
- [County Government of Kisumu: Press Statement on Ethnic Conflict in Sondu](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/county-government-of-kisumu-press-statement-on-ethnic-conflict-in-sondu/) - A press statement by Governor of Kisumu, Prof. Anyang' Nyong'o dated July 2023 on the ongoing ethnic conflict in Sondu.
- [Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2023](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/global-multidimensional-poverty-index-2023/) - The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2023 report by OPHI and UNDP released on 11th July 2023 with the theme Unstacking global poverty: Data for high-impact action.
- [KNBS - Kenya Demographic and Health Survey 2022 - Volume 1](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/knbs-kenya-demographic-and-health-survey-2022-volume-1/) - A report by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics for the Demographic and Health Survey 2022.
- [Nation Media Group Press Statement on Attack by Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/nation-media-group-press-statement-on-attack-by-cabinet-secretary-moses-kuria/) - A press statement issued by the Nation Media Group following a public attack by CS Moses Kuria.
- [Kenya Union of Journalists - Press Statement of 19th June 2023](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-union-of-journalists-press-statement-of-19th-june-2023/) - A press statement dated 19th June 2023 issued by the Kenya Union of Journalists on press freedom and attacks on the media in Kenya.
- [Media Council of Kenya: Press Statement of 19th June 2023](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/media-council-of-kenya-press-statement-of-19th-june-2023/) - A press statement dated 19th June 2023 issued by the Media Council of Kenya on press freedom and attacks on the media in Kenya.
- [Institute of Economic Affairs: Kenya's Budget 2023/24 Factsheet](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/institute-of-economic-affairs-kenyas-budget-2023-24-factsheet/) - A factsheet by the Institute of Economic Affairs on the 2023/24 Kenya Budget.
- [Kenya: Budget Statement for Financial Year 2023/24](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-budget-statement-for-financial-year-2023-24/) - A statement delivered to the National Assembly on 15th June, 2023 by Prof. Njuguna Ndung’u, CBS, Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning, Republic of Kenya, while presenting the budget policy highlights and revenue raising measures for the financial year 2023/24 budget.
- [Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning: Report on the Consideration of the Finance Bill 2023](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/departmental-committee-on-finance-and-national-planning-report-on-the-consideration-of-the-finance-bill-2023/) - A report by Kenya's National Assembly Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning on the Finance Bill 2023.
- [Report of the Committee on Defense on the Approval Hearing of Mr Noordin Mohammed Haji - June 2023](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/report-of-the-committee-on-defense-on-the-approval-hearing-of-mr-noordin-mohammed-haji-june-2023/) - A report dated June 2023 by the Kenyan Parliamentary Committee on Defense on the Approval Hearing of Mr Noordin Mohammed Haji, the Nominee for appointment as Director General of the National Intelligence Service.
- [The Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya Submission on the Finance Bill 2023](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/the-institute-of-certified-public-accountants-of-kenya-submission-on-the-finance-bill-2023/) - A submission dated May 2023 by The Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya on the Finance Bill 2023.
- [Transparency International Kenya: Withdrawal of the 2019 Leadership Integrity Award (State/Public Officer)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/transparency-international-kenya-withdrawal-of-the-2019-leadership-integrity-award-state-public-officer/) - A letter issued on 23rd May 2023 by the Executive Director of Transparency International Kenya on the withdrawal of the 2019 Leadership Integrity Award (State/Public Officer) bestowed on former Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji.
- [Institute of Surveyors of Kenya: Press Statement on the Role of National Land Commission in Compulsory Land Acquisitions](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/institute-of-surveyors-of-kenya-press-statement-on-the-role-of-national-land-commission-in-compulsory-land-acquisitions/) - A press statement issued on 24th May 2023 by the Institute of Surveyors of Kenya on the role of the National Land Commission with respect to valuation for compulsory land acquisitions in Kenya.
- [National Integrity Alliance: Press Release on Nomination of Mr Noordin Haji as NIS Director General](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/national-integrity-alliance-press-release-on-nomination-of-mr-noordin-haji-as-nis-director-general/) - A press statement issued on 21st May 2023 by the National Integrity Alliance on President William Ruto's nomination of Mr Noordin Haji as NIS Director General.
- [Executive Office of the President  Press Release - Irregular Release of Condemned Sugar](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/executive-office-of-the-president-press-release-irregular-release-of-condemned-sugar/) - A press statement issued on 17th May 2023 by the Executive Office of the President of Kenya on the irregular release of sugar.
- [Notification of Presidential Action: Portfolio Re-Assignments in the Rank of Permanent Secretaries](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/notification-of-presidential-action-portfolio-re-assignments-in-the-rank-of-permanent-secretaries/) - A press release issued on 16th May 2023 by Kenya's Chief of Staff and Head of Public Service Felix K. Koskei on the re-assignment of Permanent Secretaries in Kenya.
- [Notification of Presidential Action: Nomination for State Appointment - Governor of Central Bank of Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/notification-of-presidential-action-nomination-for-state-appointment-governor-of-central-bank-of-kenya/) - A press release issued on 16th May 2023 by Kenya's Chief of Staff and Head of Public Service Felix K. Koskei on the nomination of Dr. Kamu Thugge for the position of Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya.
- [Notification of Presidential Action - Governance and Management of KEMSA - 15th March 2023](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/notification-of-presidential-action-governance-and-management-of-kemsa-15th-march-2023/) - A press release issued on 15th May 2023 by Kenya's Chief of Staff and Head of Public Service Felix K/ Koskei on the governance and management of the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority.
- [Finance Bill, 2023](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/finance-bill-2023/) - A Bill for an Act of Parliament to amend the laws relating to various taxes and duties; and for matters incidental thereto.
- [Council of Governors Press Statement - 24th April 2024](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/council-of-governors-press-statement-24th-april-2024/) - A press statement issued by the Council of Governors on 24th April 2023 following a full Council of Governors meeting.
- [Azimio One Kenya Coalition - Deliberations of Azimio Leadership Since Last Sunday](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/azimio-one-kenya-coalition-deliberations-of-azimio-leadership-since-last-sunday/) - Deliberations by the Azimio One Kenya Coalition released on 4th April 2023 regarding the bipartisan talks with Kenya's ruling party.
- [CSO Press Statement - Bleak and Dire: A Crisis in Human Rights and Governance in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/cso-press-statement-bleak-and-dire-a-crisis-in-human-rights-and-governance-in-kenya/) - A press statement issued by leading Civil Society Organisations in Kenya on 3rd April 2023 on the state of the nation.
- [Kenya Media Sector Working Group - Press Statement of 2nd April 2023](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-media-sector-working-group-press-statement-of-2nd-april-2023/) - A press statement by the Kenya Media Sector Working Group dated 2nd April 2023.
- [Statement by H.E William Ruto - 2nd April 2023](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/statement-by-h-e-william-ruto-2nd-april-2023/) - A press statement dated 2nd April 2023 by President William Ruto on the mass protests.
- [KNCHR - Press Statement of 29th March 2023 on Mass Protests](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/knchr-press-statement-of-29th-march-2023-on-mass-protests/) - A statement by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights dated 29th March 2023 on the state of the nation amidst the ongoing mass protests.
- [Remarks by H E President William Ruto during the American Chamber of Commerce Regional Business Summit 2023](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/remarks-by-h-e-president-william-ruto-during-the-american-chamber-of-commerce-regional-business-summit-2023/) - A statement made by H.E. President William Ruto, during the American Chamber of Commerce Regional Business Summit on 30th March 2023.
- [CDP Africa Report - Benchmarking Progress Towards Climate Safe Cities, States, and Regions](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/cdp-africa-report-benchmarking-progress-towards-climate-safe-cities-states-and-regions/) - A report released in March 2020 by CDP Africa on Africa's progress towards climate-safe cities.
- [IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - Technical Summary](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/ipcc-sixth-assessment-report-technical-summary/) - The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report Technical Summary (TS) provides an extended summary of key findings and serves as a link between the comprehensive assessment of the Working Group II Report and the concise SPM.
- [IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - Summary for Policymakers](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/ipcc-sixth-assessment-report-summary-for-policymakers/) - The Summary of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report for Policymakers (SPM) provides a high-level summary of the key findings of the Working Group II Report and is approved by the IPCC member governments line by line.
- [Kenya National Police Service Press Statement of 28th March 2023 on Maandamano Protests](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-national-police-service-press-statement-of-28th-march-2023-on-maandamano-protests/) - The National Police Service of Kenya released a press statement after the mass protests and violence on 27th March 2023.
- [Northern Rangelands Trust's Statement Regarding the Survival International Report on Carbon Credits](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/northern-rangelands-trusts-statement-regarding-the-survival-international-report-on-carbon-credits/) - A statement issued by the Northern Rangelands Trust on the Carbon Project.
- [The Borana Council of Elders Rejoinder to NRTs Statement on the Blood Carbon](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/the-borana-council-of-elders-rejoinder-to-nrts-statement-on-the-blood-carbon/) - A rejoinder to the Northern Rangelands Trust's statement by The Borana Council of Elders on how the carbon offset scheme.
- [Joint Statement by Embassies and High Commissions in Kenya on Violence During Mass Protests](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/joint-statement-by-embassies-and-high-commissions-in-kenya-on-violence-during-mass-protests/) - A joint statement issued on 29th March 2023 by Ambassadors and High Commissioners from Australia, Canada, Denmark, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, The United Kingdom and The United States on the violence during the mass protests in Kenya.
- [Media Council of Kenya -  Press Statement of 27th March 2023 on Attack of Media](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/media-council-of-kenya-press-statement-of-27th-march-2023-on-attack-of-media/) - A statement by the Media Council of Kenya dated 27th March 2023 on the attack on journalists during the mass protests in Kenya.
- [Survival International - Blood Carbon: How a Carbon Offset Scheme Makes Millions From Indigenous Land in Northern Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/survival-international-blood-carbon-how-a-carbon-offset-scheme-makes-millions-from-indigenous-land-in-northern-kenya/) - A report published by Survival International on the Northern Kenya Grassland Carbon Project.
- [Communications Authority of Kenya - Notice to All Broadcasters Broadcast on Coverage of Demonstrations](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/communications-authority-of-kenya-notice-to-all-broadcasters-broadcast-on-coverage-of-demonstrations/) - A notice by the Communications Authority of Kenya to all broadcasters in Kenya on the coverage of demonstrations.
- [Ministry of Interior -  Press Statement on Mass Protests - 26th March 2023](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/ministry-of-interior-press-statement-on-mass-protests-26th-march-2023/) - A press statement by the Ministry of Interior and National Administration issued on 26th March 2023 on the planned mass protests and demonstrations in Kenya.
- [Raila Odinga: Rigathi Gachagua Planning Mayhem Against Protesters](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/raila-odinga-rigathi-gachagua-planning-mayhem-against-protesters/) - A statement issued by Rt. Hon Raila Odinga on 26th March 2023 regarding the Maandamano Protests in Kenya.
- [Kenya CSO - Press Statement on the swearing-in of Cabinet Assistant Secretaries - 26th March 2023](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-cso-press-statement-on-the-swearing-in-of-cabinet-assistant-secretaries-26th-march-2023/) - A press statement by leading CSOs dated 26th March 2023 in response to The Judiciary statement on swearing-in of CAS.
- [Judiciary - Press Statement on Swearing in of CAS - 25th March 2023](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/judiciary-press-statement-on-swearing-in-of-cas-25th-march-2023/) - A press statement issued on 25th March 2023 by The Judiciary of Kenya on the swearing-in of Cabinet Assistant Secretaries (CAS).
- [KEPSA - Press Statement on Protests and Boycotts - 23rd March 2023](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kepsa-press-statement-on-protests-and-boycotts-23rd-march-2023/) - A press statement by Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) dated 23rd March 2023 on boycott calls by the Azimio Coalition.
- [AZIMIO - Response to Ministry of Foreign Affairs letter for Foreign Embassies](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/azimio-response-to-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-letter-for-foreign-embassies/) - A letter issued on 23rd March 2023 by the Azimio La Umoja Coalition in response to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs letter to foreign missions in Kenya.
- [Draft Privatisation Bill 2023 - Public Participation](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/draft-privatisation-bill-2023-public-participation/) - A draft bill to provide a regulatory framework for the privatisation of public entities including state corporations; to establish the Privatisation Authority; and for connected purposes.
- [KCCB - Press Statement on State of the Nation - 23rd March 2023](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kccb-press-statement-on-state-of-the-nation-23rd-march-2023/) - A press statement dated 22nd March 2023 by the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops on the state of the nation.
- [Uganda - The Anti Homosexuality Bill, 202](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/uganda-the-anti-homosexuality-bill-202/) - A Bill before the Ugandan Parliament seeking to establish comprehensive and enhanced legislation to protect the traditional family by prohibiting any form of sexual relations between persons of the same sex and the promotion or recognition of sexual relations between persons of the same sex, strengthening the nation’s capacity to deal with emerging internal and external threats to the traditional, heterosexual family. This legislation further recognizes the fact that same-sex attraction is not an innate and immutable characteristic, protecting the cherished culture of the people of Uganda, the legal, religious, and traditional family values of Ugandans against the acts of sexual rights activists seeking to impose their values of sexual promiscuity on the people of Uganda and protecting children and youth who are made vulnerable to sexual abuse through homosexuality and related acts.
- [Azimio La Umoja - Notice of Nationwide Processions and Protests](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/azimio-la-umoja-notice-of-nationwide-processions-and-protests/) - A statement issued on 22nd March 2023 by the Azimio La Umoja Coalition on the scheduled nationwide processions and protests in Kenya.
- [NAWI - Prayers for a Cruel Blessed World](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/nawi-prayers-for-a-cruel-blessed-world/) - A project of the Nawi Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective published in November 2022.
- [Executive Office of the President of Kenya - Dispatch from Cabinet - 21st March 2023](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/executive-office-of-the-president-of-kenya-dispatch-from-cabinet-21st-march-2023/) - A statement issued on 21st March 2023 from the Executive Office of the President on the convening and deliberations of Cabinet.
- [Fabio De Masi: When Finance Meets Big Data: Financial Technology and the Scramble for Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/fabio-de-masi-when-finance-meets-big-data-financial-technology-and-the-scramble-for-africa/) - A publication by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation dated February 2023.
- [Notification of Presidential Action 16/03/2023: Presidential Nominations to the Rank of Chief Administrative Secretaries](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/notification-of-presidential-action-16-03-2023-presidential-nominations-to-the-rank-of-chief-administrative-secretaries/) - A press statement dated 16th March 2023 on the Presidential nomination of Chief Administrative Secretaries in Kenya.
- [Anglican Church of Kenya - Press Statement on the State of the Nation - March 2023](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/anglican-church-of-kenya-press-statement-on-the-state-of-the-nation-march-2023/) - A press statement by the Anglican Church of Kenya dated 15th March 2023 on the state of the nation.
- [EPRA Press Release - Petroleum Prices for the Period 15th March to 15th April 2023](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/epra-press-release-petroleum-prices-for-the-period-15th-march-to-15th-april-2023/) - A press release by the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority dated 14th March 2023 on the maximum retail petroleum prices in Kenya for the period 15th March to 14th April 2023.
- [Evangelical Alliance of Kenya: LGBTQ Ruling is Immoral, Illegal and Unacceptable](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/evangelical-alliance-of-kenya-lgbtq-ruling-is-immoral-illegal-and-unacceptable/) - A statement signed on the 26th day of February 2023 by the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya on the Supreme Court of Kenya's LGBTQ ruling.
- [Infotrack - Voice of the People Poll - February 2023](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/infotrack-voice-of-the-people-poll-february-2023/) - A survey released by Infotrack released on 28th February 2023 on various issues affecting Kenyans.
- [Executive Order No. 1 of 2023 – Organization of the Government of the Republic of Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/executive-order-no-1-of-2023-organization-of-the-government-of-the-republic-of-kenya/) - An executive order dated 9th January 2023 by Pres. William Ruto on the reorganization of the government of the Republic of Kenya
- [Assessing the Peace Accord for Tigray](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/assessing-the-peace-accord-for-tigray/) - A press statement issued on 26th November 2022 on the Tigray Peace Accord by concerned African scholars.
- [Executive Order No. 1 of 2022 – The President: Organization of the Government of the Republic of Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/executive-order-no-1-of-2022-the-president-organization-of-the-government-of-the-republic-of-kenya/) - An executive order dated 12th October 2022 by Pres. William Ruto on the reorganization of the government of the Republic of Kenya
- [2022 Supreme Court Farce](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/2022-supreme-court-farce/) - A critique of the Judgement of the Supreme Court of Kenya in Presidential Election Petition No 5 of 2022 written by Prof. Makau Mutua and Paul Mwangi and published on 30th September 2022.
- [Supreme Court of Kenya: Reasons for Judgment in the Presidential Election Petition E005 of 2022](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/supreme-court-of-kenya-reasons-for-judgment-in-the-presidential-election-petition-e005-of-2022/) - The Supreme Court of Kenya's Reasons for Judgment in the Presidential Election Petition E005 of 2022, released on 26th September 2022.
- [IEBC - Press Statement from Chairperson - 17th August 2022](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/iebc-press-statement-from-chairperson-17th-august-2022/) - A press statement issued by the Chairperson of IEBC on staff murder, profiling and misleading reports on the presidential elections.
- [Press Statement by Four IEBC Commissioners on the 2022 Kenya General Election - 16th August 2022](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/press-statement-by-four-iebc-commissioners-on-the-2022-kenya-general-election-16th-august-2022/) - A press statement issued by four of the seven IEBC Commissioners dissenting to the Kenya General Elections 2022 results announced by the Chairperson of IEBC.
- [Angaza Movement - Press Statement on Election Malpractice and the Need for Accountability](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/angaza-movement-press-statement-on-election-malpractice-and-the-need-for-accountability/) - A press release statement on the 2022 General Elections in Kenya by Angaza Movement, a coalition of civil society organizations in Kenya.
- [Angaza Movement - Press Statement on Kenya's 9th August 2022 General Election - 12th August 2022](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/angaza-movement-press-statement-on-kenyas-9th-august-2022-general-election-12th-august-2022/) - A press release statement on the 2022 General Elections in Kenya by Angaza Movement, a coalition of civil society organizations in Kenya.
- [ELOG Press Statement on Kenya General Election of 9th August 2022](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/elog-press-statement-on-kenya-general-election-of-9th-august-2022/) - A statement by Elections Observation Group (ELOG) released on 10th August 2022 on the voting and closing of polling stations for the 9th August 2022 General Election
- [People vs Big Tech: Stop Facebook from Silencing Whistleblower Daniel Motaung](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/people-vs-big-tech-stop-facebook-from-silencing-whistleblower-daniel-motaung/) - A press statement issued by People vs Big Tech, an open network of civil society organisations and concerned citizens working together to challenge the power and abuses of Big Tech.
- [Judgment in Petition No. E540 & E546 of 2021 (Election Campaign Financing Act)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/judgment-in-petition-no-e540-e546-of-2021-election-campaign-financing-act/) - Judgment in consolidated petitions No. E540 & E546 of 2021 relating to the Election Campaign Financing Act
- [National Bureau of Asian Research: (In)roads and Outposts: Critical Infrastructure in China’s Africa Strategy](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/national-bureau-of-asian-research-inroads-and-outposts-critical-infrastructure-in-chinas-africa-strategy/) - This is the introduction to the report “(In)roads and Outposts: Critical Infrastructure in China’s Africa Strategy,” which examines the implications of China’s growing presence in Africa’s critical infrastructure.
- [Fighting Corruption in Angola](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/fighting-corruption-in-angola/) - Presentation given at the International Exchange on Governance and the Fight Against Corruption, a joint initiative of the Coalition of NGO’s in Sāo Tomé and Príncipe and the Civil Society Network for Good Governance, held in São Tomé and Príncipe between the 12th and 13th of April, 2022.
- [IEBC Press Statement - Statutory Timelines Towards the 9th August, 2022 General Election](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/iebc-press-statement-statutory-timelines-towards-the-9th-august-2022-general-election/) - A press statement issued on the 5th of April 2022 by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission on statutory timelines towards the 9th August, 2022 General Election.
- [Judgment in the Supreme Court Petition No.12 of 2021 (BBI) - Media Summary](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/judgment-in-the-supreme-court-petition-no-12-of-2021-bbi-media-summary/) - A media summary of the Supreme Court Petition No.12 of 2021 judgment delivered on 31st March 2022.
- [Communique of the 19th Extra-Ordinary Summit of the EAC Heads of State](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/communique-of-the-19th-extra-ordinary-summit-of-the-eac-heads-of-state/) - A communique from the 19th Extra-Ordinary Summit of the EAC Heads of State held on 29th March 2022, where the summit agreed to admit DR Congo as a full member of the East African Community.
- [SAIIA Policy Insights 125 - Russian and African Media: Exercising Soft Power](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/saiia-policy-insights-125-russian-and-african-media-exercising-soft-power/) - A South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) research paper on Russia and Africa Media authored by Cayley Clifford and Steven Gruzd in February 2022.
- [The Oakland Institute - Kenya Stealth: “Community” Conservancies Devastate Land & Lives in Northern Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/the-oakland-institute-kenya-stealth-community-conservancies-devastate-land-lives-in-northern-kenya/) - A report published by The Oakland Institute in 2021 on conservation in Kenya. This report was authored by Anuradha Mittal and Zahra Moloo with assistance from Frederic Mousseau.
- [United States Strategy on Countering Corruption](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/united-states-strategy-on-countering-corruption/) - Released on 6th December 2021, this strategy recognizes that curbing corruption, and related illicit acts, starts with limiting the ability of kleptocrats, corrupt actors, and transnational criminal organizations to use the United States and other destination countries to stash their stolen assets.
- [African Citizens’ Letter to the UNSG on the Risk of Genocide in Ethiopia](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/african-citizens-letter-to-the-unsg-on-the-risk-of-genocide-in-ethiopia/) - A letter dated 26th November 2021 by African individuals and institutions addressed to the United Nations Secretary General on the risk of genocide in Ethiopia.
- [International IDEA - The Global State of Democracy Report 2021: Building Resilience in a Pandemic Era](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/international-idea-the-global-state-of-democracy-report-2021-building-resilience-in-a-pandemic-era/) - A report published by International IDEA in 2021 aiming to influence the global debate and analyses current trends and challenges to democracy, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. It offers specific policy recommendations to spark new and innovative thinking for policymakers, governments and civil society organizations supporting democracy.
- [United Progressive Front Press Statement on Rule of Law in Kenya - 16th November 2021](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/united-progressive-front-press-statement-on-rule-of-law-in-kenya-16th-november-2021/) - A press statement released on 16th November 2021 by the United Progressive Front regarding the push for rule of law, the defence, the upholding and respect for the rights of all Kenyan citizens.
- [High Court Order in Constitutional Petition No. 47 of 2020 (Miguna Miguna)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/high-court-order-in-constitutional-petition-no-47-of-2020-miguna-miguna/) - A High Court Order issued on 12th November 2021 regarding Constitutional Petition No. 47 of 2020.
- [Response from Director of Immigration to KNCHR Regarding the Return of Miguna Miguna to Kenya on 16th November 2021](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/response-from-director-of-immigration-to-knchr-regarding-the-return-of-miguna-miguna-to-kenya-on-16th-november-2021/) - A letter by Kenya's Director of Immigrations in response to Kenya National Commission on Human Rights on the issue of Miguna Miguna's return to Kenya on 16th November 2021.
- [KNCHR: Letter to Kenya Airports Authority on the Return of Miguna Miguna to Kenya on 16th November 2021](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/knchr-letter-to-kenya-airports-authority-on-the-return-of-miguna-miguna-to-kenya-on-16th-november-2021/) - A letter from the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights addressed to Managing Director, Kenya Airports Authority (KAA), on the scheduled return of Miguna Miguna to Kenya on 16th November 2021.
- [KNCHR: Letter to Immigrations Directorate on Passport/Travel Documents and Return of Miguna Miguna to Kenya on 16th November 2021](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/knchr-passport-travel-documents-and-return-of-miguna-miguna-to-kenya-on-16th-november-2021/) - A letter from the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights addressed to Principal Secretary, State Department-Immigrations, Border Control & Registration of Persons and the Director of Immigrations, on the scheduled return of Miguna Miguna to Kenya on 16th November 2021.
- [Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime: The Politics of Crime - Kenya's gang phenomenon](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/global-initiative-against-transnational-organized-crime-the-politics-of-crime-kenyas-gang-phenomenon/) - Global Initiative’s report “The Politics of Crime – Kenya’s Gang Phenomenon” authored by Simone Haysom and Ken Opala shows that criminal gangs have become so widespread in Nairobi and Mombasa, two major Kenyan cities that they even determine the cost and provision of urban services. The coercive groups are even entrenched in politics that aspiring candidates consider it impractical to enter the game without funding gangs of their own.
- [The Report of the Presidential Taskforce on the Review of Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/the-report-of-the-presidential-taskforce-on-the-review-of-power-purchase-agreements-ppas/) - A report by the Presidential Taskforce on the Review of Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) released on 29th September 2021. The PPA Taskforce was appointed by HE President Uhuru Kenyatta on 29th March 2021 against the backdrop of a sustained public outcry from consumers, businesses and individual Kenyans alike, about the high cost of power supplied by KPLC, especially when compared to the cost of power in neighbouring countries and in peer economies.
- [EATGN - Revenue Collection and Economic Justice: Kenya National Tax Outlook Survey - 2021](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/eatgn-revenue-collection-and-economic-justice-kenya-national-tax-outlook-survey-2021/) - A survey report published in 2021 by the East African Tax and Governance Network (EATGN) and Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA) on revenue collection and economic justice in Kenya.
- [Kenya National Bureau of Statistics - Economics Survey 2021](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-national-bureau-of-statistics-economics-survey-2021/) - A 2021 survey on the Kenyan economy published by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics.
- [Election Petition Case No. E004 of 2021 Judgment (Kibos Nubian Community Eviction Case)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/election-petition-case-no-e004-of-2021-judgment-kibos-nubian-community-eviction-case/) - Judgment in consolidated petitions No. 1 of 2020 and No. E004 of 2021 where petitioners alleged that sometime in 1937, the Nubian Community was moved by colonial government to the suit block of land from the present area occupied by the Kisumu Airport, since then, the Nubian Community has known no other home.
- [Civil Appeal No. E291 of 2021 (Final Judgment) Combined](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/civil-appeal-no-e291-of-2021-final-judgment-combined/) - A Kenyan Court of Appeal judgment issued on 20th August 2021. This appeal was from the judgment and Decree of the High Court of Kenya at Nairobi (Prof. M. Ngugi, G. V. Odunga, Ngaah Jairus, E.C. Mwita & Mumbua T. Matheka, JJ.) delivered on 13th May 2021 regarding the Building Bridges Initiative.
- [Federal Republic of Somalia - MOCA Handover Report 2021](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/federal-republic-of-somalia-moca-handover-report-2021/) - This report is a record of the performance of the Federal Republic of Somalia's Ministry of Constitutional Affairs for the period between April 2017 to March 2021.
- [TIFA Polls - Issues Facing Kenyans and Uhuru's Legacy - 27 July 2021](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/tifa-polls-issues-facing-kenyans-and-uhurus-legacy-27-july-2021/) - A survey released by TIFA Research released on 27th July 2021 on the main issue that most Kenyans are concerned with: the state of the economy.
- [WFD/NIMD - The Cost of Politics in Kenya: Implications for Political Participation and Development (2021)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/wfd-nimd-the-cost-of-politics-in-kenya-implications-for-political-participation-and-development-2021/) - A report released in July 2021 by the Westminster Foundation for Democracy Limited (WFD) and the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy, authored by Karuti Kanyinga and Tom Mboya, on the cost of politics in Kenya.
- [Africa No Filter - How African Media Covers Africa Report - 2021](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/africa-no-filter-how-african-media-covers-africa-report-2021/) - The ‘How Africa covers Africa in the media’ report released in 2021 was commissioned by Africa No Filter, a donor collaborative funded by Ford Foundation, Bloomberg, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Luminate, Open Society Foundation, Comic Relief, British Council and the Hilton Foundation.
- [KNBS - Inequality Trends and Diagnostics in Kenya 2020 Report](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/knbs-inequality-trends-and-diagnostics-in-kenya-2020-report/) - A joint report on multidimensional in Kenya released by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics in November 2020.
- [Independent Assessment of International Support to the Whole Security Environment in Somalia Post-2021](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/independent-assessment-of-international-support-to-the-whole-security-environment-in-somalia-post-2021/) - Download PDF Independent Assessment of International Support to the Whole Security Environment in Somalia Post-2021 (PDF) Independent Assessment of International Support to the Whole Security Environment in Somalia Post-2021 (Text)
- [AU - Report Of the Independent Assessment Team on the African Union’s Engagement in and With Somalia Post 2021](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/au-report-of-the-independent-assessment-team-on-the-african-unions-engagement-in-and-with-somalia-post-2021/) - A report released in May 2021 by The AU Independent Assessment (AUIA) Team of Experts on Somalia.
- [Africa Infodemic Response Alliance - COVID-19 Infodemic Trends in the African Region (June 2021)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/africa-infodemic-response-alliance-covid-19-infodemic-trends-in-the-african-region-june-2021/) - A report by Africa Infodemic Response Alliance released in June 2021 on COVID-19 in Africa.
- [TIFA - Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) Public Opinion Poll Results - 1st July 2021](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/tifa-building-bridges-initiative-bbi-public-opinion-poll-results-1st-july-2021/) - An opinion poll published by TIFA on 1st July 2021 on the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI).
- [IEBC - Clarifications on Misreporting on 2022 General Elections Preparedness and Boundaries Review](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/iebc-clarifications-on-misreporting-on-2022-general-elections-preparedness-and-boundaries-review/) - A press statement by the Independent Elections and Boundaries Commission of Kenya released on 24th June 2021.
- [MSJC - Mothers of Victims and Survivors Network: From Victims to Community Defenders](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/msjc-mothers-of-victims-and-survivors-network-from-victims-to-community-defenders/) - A report published by Mathare Social Justice Centre on February 20th, 2020.
- [Kenya: Budget Statement for Financial Year 2021/22](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-budget-statement-for-financial-year-2021-22/) - A statement delivered to the National Assembly in 2021 by Mr Henry K. Rotich, Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury, Republic of Kenya, when highlighting the budget policy and revenue raising measures for Fiscal Year 2021/22.
- [CMJA, CLA, CLEA and Rechters Voor Rechters Statement on Kenya - 7th June 2021](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/cmja-cla-clea-and-rechters-voor-rechters-statement-on-kenya-7th-june-2021/) - A statement on the Judiciary of Kenya issued by The Commonwealth Magistrates’ and Judges’ Association, The Commonwealth Legal Education Association, The Commonwealth Lawyers Association and Rechters voor Rechters (Judges for Judges) on 7th June 2021.
- [Publication of Names and Qualifications of All Applicants for the Position of Member of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission Vacancy No. SP/IEBC/2021](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/publication-of-names-and-qualifications-of-all-applicants-for-the-position-of-member-of-the-independent-electoral-and-boundaries-commission-vacancy-no-sp-iebc-2021/) - A list of applicants for the position of IEBC Commissioner, published by the Chairperson, Selection Panel for the Appointment of Commissioners of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (2021).
- [Afronomics Law - The BBI Consolidated High Court of Kenya Judgement of the Constitutional and Human Rights Petition No. E282 of 2020 (Delivered May 13, 2021): Snap Overview ](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/afronomics-law-the-bbi-consolidated-high-court-of-kenya-judgement-of-the-constitutional-and-human-rights-petition-no-e282-of-2020-delivered-may-13-2021-snap-overview/) - An analysis by James Thuo Gathii (Afronomics Law) on the BBI Consolidated High Court of Kenya Judgement of the Constitutional and Human Rights Petition No. E282 of 2020.
- [BBI Consolidated High Court of Kenya Judgement of the Constitutional and Human Rights Petition No. E282 of 2020 (Delivered May 13, 2021)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/bbi-consolidated-high-court-of-kenya-judgement-of-the-constitutional-and-human-rights-petition-no-e282-of-2020-delivered-may-13-2021/) - A ruling delivered by a 5 judge bench on 13th May 2021 on the Constitutional and Human Rights Petition No. E282 of 2020.
- [Judgement in Petition No. 33 & 42 of 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/judgement-in-petition-no-33-42-of-2018/) - A judgement delivered by Judge A. C. Mrima on 20th April 2020 on Nairobi High Court Constitutional Petitions 33 and 42 of 2018, challenging the constitutionality of the position of the Chief Administrative Secretaries and the appointment of the holders of those offices.
- [Nairobi Metropolitan Services Improvement Project: Eastlands Urban Renewal Plan - Sep 2019](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/nairobi-metropolitan-services-improvement-project-eastlands-urban-renewal-plan-sep-2019/) - A report released on 19th September 2019 on the Urban Renewal Plan for Eastlands, Nairobi (2016 -2036), one of the Nairobi Metropolitan Service Improvement Projects, being undertaken by the Government of Kenya, with support from the World Bank under the Country Partnership Strategy (CPS).
- [Update on the COVID-19 Containment Measures as Contained in the Public Order No. 2 of 2021](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/update-on-the-covid-19-containment-measures-as-contained-in-the-public-order-no-2-of-2021/) - An update by Government Spokeperson Col. (Rtd) Cyrus Oguna, Mbs, NDC(K) on the COVID-19 containment measures as contained in the Public Order No. 2 of 2021 on Saturday 27 March, 2021 at the Government Media Centre, Nairobi.
- [Interfaith Council for National Response to Corona Virus Pandemic Press Statement](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/interfaith-council-for-national-response-to-corona-virus-pandemic-press-statement/) - A press statement dated 27th March 2021 by the Interfaith Council for National Response to Corona Virus Pandemic.
- [Ruling on the Formal Application for the Variation of the Conservatory Orders on Consolidated BBI Petitions](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/ruling-on-the-formal-application-for-the-variation-of-the-conservatory-orders-on-consolidated-bbi-petitions/) - A ruling dated the 26th day of March 2021 for Petitions No. e282 of 2020, (Consolidated With Petition Nos. 397 of 2020, E400 of 2020, E401 of 2020, E402 of 2020, E416 of 2020, E426 of 2020 and 2 of 2021).
- [Kenya - The Fifteenth [15th] Presidential Address on the Coronavirus Pandemic](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-the-fifteenth-15th-presidential-address-on-the-coronavirus-pandemic/) - An address by Pres. Uhuru Kenyatta delivered on 26th March 2021 regarding the coronavirus pandemic in Kenya.
- [Kenya Ministry of Health - National COVID-19 Vaccines Deployment and Vaccination Plan (2021)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-ministry-of-health-national-covid-19-vaccines-deployment-and-vaccination-plan-2021/) - Kenya's national vaccine and immunization program released by the Ministry of Health in February 2021.
- [Unwanted Witness: How Undemocratic Practices Sway Digital Rights Enjoyment & Governance In Uganda](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/unwanted-witness-how-undemocratic-practices-sway-digital-rights-enjoyment-governance-in-uganda/) - A report released in March 2020 by Unwanted Witness Uganda on the status of digital rights and governance in Uganda.
- [Tanzania Elections Watch - Final Observation Report on the General Elections Held in Tanzania on October 28, 2020](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/tanzania-elections-watch-final-observation-report-on-the-general-elections-held-in-tanzania-on-october-28-2020/) - A report released on 28th February 2021 by the Tanzania Elections Watch on the October 2020 elections in Tanzania.
- [Communications From the Chair on the Resolutions of County Assemblies on the Draft Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2020](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/communications-from-the-chair-on-the-resolutions-of-county-assemblies-on-the-draft-constitution-of-kenya-amendment-bill-2020/) - Statement dated 25th February 2021 from Speaker of the Senate, Kenneth M. Lusaka to senators on the resolutions of County Assemblies on the Draft Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2020.
- [Executive Office of the President - Portfolio Re-Assignments & Changes in the Senior Ranks of the Executive - Feb 2021](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/executive-office-of-the-president-portfolio-re-assignments-changes-in-the-senior-ranks-of-the-executive-feb-2021/) - A press statement released on 17th February 2021 by the Office of the President regarding the portfolio re-assignments and changes in the senior ranks of the Executive.
- [Bruce I. Afran - Report on Governmental Abuse, Violations, and Misconduct in Advance of the January 14, 2021 Presidential Election and Its Aftermath](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/bruce-i-afran-report-on-governmental-abuse-violations-and-misconduct-in-advance-of-the-january-14-2021-presidential-election-and-its-aftermath/) - A report by attorney Bruce I. Afran, counsel for Robert Kyagulanyi a.ka.a Bobi Wine, and National Unity Platform (NUP), published on 4th February 2021 highlighting abuses and human rights violations and election irregularities of the Government of Uganda and its officials in the campaign for the Presidency of Uganda.
- [Mt Kenya MPs Letter to President Uhuru Kenyatta](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/mt-kenya-mps-letter-to-president-uhuru-kenyatta/) - A letter dated 28th January 2020 addressed to Pres. Uhuru Kenyatta and signed by 41 leaders of the Mt. Kenya region.
- [John Githongo - Interruption of theelephant.info Services in Uganda](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/john-githongo-interruption-of-theelephant-info-services-in-uganda/) - A statement issued by John Githongo, publisher of The Elephant on the interruption of The Elephant services in Uganda.
- [TIFA - BBI Referendum Issues Baseline Poll](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/tifa-bbi-referendum-issues-baseline-poll/) - A baseline poll by TIFA on BBI referendum issues released on 8th January 2021.
- [Apostolic Nunciature In Kenya - Retirement of the Archbishop of Nairobi](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/apostolic-nunciature-in-kenya-retirement-of-the-archbishop-of-nairobi/) - A letter from the Apostolic Nunciature In Kenya dated 2nd January 2020 on the resignation of His Eminence Emmanuel Cardinal Njue as Archbishop of Nairobi.
- [Executive Office of the President - Review of COVID-19 Containment Measures - Jan 2021](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/executive-office-of-the-president-review-of-covid-19-containment-measures-jan-2021/) - A press statement released on 2nd January 2021 by the Office of the President regarding the review of Kenya's COVID-19 containment measures.
- [NAMLEF & CIPK: Muslim Position on the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/namlef-cipk-muslim-position-on-the-building-bridges-initiative-bbi/) - A press statement issued by NAMLEF and CIPK on the Muslim position on BBI in Kenya.
- [Special Gazette Vol.227 (Sonko Impeachment)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/special-gazette-vol-227-sonko-impeachment/) - The Senate Standing Orders issued on 18th December 2020 for the removal from office, by impeachment, of Hon. Mike Mbuvi Sonko, the Governor of Nairobi City County.
- [Nairobi High Court Judgment in Consolidated Petitions No.185, 208 and 339 of 2019](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/nairobi-high-court-judgment-in-consolidated-petitions-no-185-208-and-339-of-2019/) - A Nairobi High Court judgement issued on 10th December 2020 regarding Consolidated Petitions No.185, 208 and 339 of 2019
- [Ufungamano Press Statement: State of the Nation and Referendum](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/ufungamano-press-statement-state-of-the-nation-and-referendum/) - A press statement issued by Ufungamano on 12th November 2020 regarding the state of the nation and the BBI referendum.
- [The National Treasury and Planning - Press Statement on Tax Rates](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/the-national-treasury-and-planning-press-statement-on-tax-rates/) - A press statement issued on 4th December 2020 by The National Treasury and Planning on the return to pre-COVID tax rates on VAT and Income Tax.
- [Interfaith Council for Corona Pandemic Response Press Statement 26th Nov 2020](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/interfaith-council-for-corona-pandemic-response-press-statement-26th-nov-2020/) - A press statement issued on 26th November 2020 by the Interfaith Council for Corona.
- [Press Release - International Day of Solidarity With the Palestinian People](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/press-release-international-day-of-solidarity-with-the-palestinian-people/) - A press release released on 29th November 2020, pertaining to the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people.a
- [Certificate of Urgency - Request for Advisory Opinion from the Supreme Court on Constitutional Amendment](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/certificate-of-urgency-request-for-advisory-opinion-from-the-supreme-court-on-constitutional-amendment/) - A Certificate of Urgency filed by Advocate Christine Nkonge in the matter of an application by Makueni Governor for an advisory opinion from the Supreme Court on Constitutional Amendment.
- [Makueni County - Request for Advisory Opinion from the Supreme Court on Constitutional Amendment](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/makueni-county-request-for-advisory-opinion-from-the-supreme-court-on-constitutional-amendment/) - A press statement issued by Makueni County Governor on 30th November 2020 regarding the request for advisory opinion from the Supreme Court on the BBI Constitutional Amendment.
- [The Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2020](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/the-constitution-of-kenya-amendment-bill-2020/) - A Bill for an Act to amend the Constitution by popular initiative.
- [AfriCOG - Highway Robbery: Budgeting for State Capture](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/africog-highway-robbery-budgeting-for-state-capture/) - A report released by AfriCOG in November 2020 on infrastructure spending under the Jubilee administration.
- [Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops: A Call to Build a United, Healed and Reconciled Nation (Nov 2020)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-conference-of-catholic-bishops-a-call-to-build-a-united-healed-and-reconciled-nation-nov-2020/) - A press statement released on 12th November 2020 by the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops.
- [Statement by the Standing Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights on the BBI Report (Nov 2020)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/statement-by-the-standing-committee-on-justice-legal-affairs-and-human-rights-on-the-bbi-report-nov-2020/) - A statement dated 11th November 2020, signed by the Chair of the Standing Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights - Senator Erick Okong'o Mogeni, regarding the BBI Report.
- [URAIA: Fact Sheet on Proposed BBI Constitutional Amendments](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/uraia-fact-sheet-on-proposed-bbi-constitutional-amendments/) - A fact sheet developed by URAIA on the proposed constitutional amendments from the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) Report released in October 2020.
- [Kenya - National Emergency Response Committee on COVID-19 Update - 4th November 2020](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-national-emergency-response-committee-on-covid-19-update-4th-november-2020/) - A statement released on 4th November 2020 by Kenya's National Emergency Response Committee on COVID-19.
- [Kenya Medical Association (KMA) Statement on the Resurgence of COVID-19 Infections and Increased Fatality Rate](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-medical-association-kma-statement-on-the-resurgence-of-covid-19-infections-and-increased-fatality-rate/) - A press statement issued on 3rd November 2020 by the Kenya Medical Association on the state of COVID-19 in Kenya.
- [ICC - Decision Constituting a Pre-Trial Chamber in the Case of The Prosecutor Vs. Paul Gicheru and Phillip K. Bett](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/icc-decision-constituting-a-pre-trial-chamber-in-the-case-of-the-prosecutor-vs-paul-gicheru-and-phillip-k-bett/) - A statement released by the ICC President of the Pre-Trial Division on 2nd November 2020 following the surrender of Paul Gicheru, wanted for offenses against the administration of justice.
- [Press Statement by BBI Campaign Steering Committee](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/press-statement-by-bbi-campaign-steering-committee/) - A press statement released on 2nd November 2020 by the BBI Campaign Steering Committee relating to consensus on 70 extra seats in the National Assembly.
- [EISA Preliminary Statement Tanzania 2020 General Elections](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/eisa-preliminary-statement-tanzania-2020-general-elections/) - This statement, released on 30th October 2020, presents the preliminary findings, conclusions and recommendations of the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA) International Election Observer Mission (IEOM) deployed to 2020 General elections in the United Republic of Tanzania.
- [Tanzania Elections Watch - Preliminary Report - 30th October 2020](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/tanzania-elections-watch-preliminary-report-30th-october-2020/) - A preliminary elections report released by Tanzania Elections Watch on 30th October 2020.
- [Claude Ake: The Unique Case of African Democracy](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/claude-ake-the-unique-case-of-african-democracy/) - Claude Ake considers the unique features of African democracy. He explains why its development must stem from the ordinary people of Africa and from their concept of participation. Published by the Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in 1993.
- [Julius Nyerere: The Arusha Declaration (1967)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/julius-nyerere-the-arusha-declaration-1967/) - The Arusha Declaration, Tanganyika African National Union's policy on socialism and self-reliance written by Julius Nyerere in 1967.
- [Tanzania Election Watch - At the Edge of Democracy: Tanzania Towards 2020 a Pre-Election Report](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/tanzania-election-watch-at-the-edge-of-democracy-tanzania-towards-2020-a-pre-election-report/) - A pre-election report released by Tanzania Elections Watch, a regional initiative shedding light on the electoral context in the Tanzania.
- [Kenya Muslim Leaders Statement on BBI - 25th October 2020](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-muslim-leaders-statement-on-bbi-25th-october-2020/) - A statement issued by Kenyan Muslim leaders on BBI, issued on 25th October 2020 at the Jamia Mosque, Nairobi, Kenya.
- [Highlights of the Report of the Building Bridges Initiative Task Force](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/highlights-of-the-report-of-the-building-bridges-initiative-task-force/) - Highlights of the report released by the Steering Committee on the Implementation of the Building Bridges to a United Kenya Taskforce in October 2020.
- [Building Bridges Report Annex E: Draft Bills](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/building-bridges-report-annex-e-draft-bills/) - Steering Committee on the Implementation of the Building Bridges to a United Kenya Taskforce drafted the following twelve bills required to give effect to some of the proposed constitutional changes will be drafted.
- [Report of the Steering Committee on the Implementation of the Building Bridges to a United Kenya Taskforce Report](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/report-of-the-steering-committee-on-the-implementation-of-the-building-bridges-to-a-united-kenya-taskforce-report/) - A report released by the Steering Committee on the Implementation of the Building Bridges to a United Kenya Taskforce in October 2020.
- [Kenya Gazette Supplement No. 181 - Judicial Service (Amendment) Bill, 2020](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-gazette-supplement-no-181-judicial-service-amendment-bill-2020/) - A bill for an Act of Parliament to amend the Judicial Service Act, 2011.
- [Executive Office of the President: Nomination and Appointment of Ambassadors & High Commissioners - October 2020](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/executive-office-of-the-president-nomination-and-appointment-of-ambassadors-high-commissioners-october-2020/) - A notification of presidential action dated 15th October 2020, nominating and appointing Kenyan Ambassadors and High Commissioners.
- [The National Security Advisory Committee of Kenya Statement - 7th October 2020](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/the-national-security-advisory-committee-of-kenya-statement-7th-october-2020/) - A statement issued on 7th October 2020 by Dr. Joseph K. Kinyua, Head of the Public Service and Chairperson of the National Security Advisory Committee (NSAC) on the current political activities in the country and their implications on national security.
- [OAG - Special Audit Report on Utilization of COVID-19 Funds by KEMSA (Sep 2020)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/oag-special-audit-report-on-utilization-of-covid-19-funds-by-kemsa-sep-2020/) - A special report released by the Office of the Auditor General of Kenya in September 2020 on the utilization of COVID-19 funds by Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) for the period 13th March to 31st July 2020.
- [LSK Letter to Inspector of Police on Dissolution of Parliament ](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/lsk-letter-to-inspector-of-police-on-dissolution-of-parliament/) - A letter addressed to the Inspector General of Police regarding the dissolution of the Parliament of Kenya, dated 24th September and signed by LSK President.
- [LSK Letter to Treasury on Dissolution of Parliament](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/lsk-letter-to-treasury-on-dissolution-of-parliament/) - A letter addressed to the Treasury regarding the dissolution of the Parliament of Kenya, dated 24th September and signed by LSK President.
- [LSK Letter to Ministry of Interior on Dissolution of Parliament](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/lsk-letter-to-ministry-of-interior-on-dissolution-of-parliament/) - A letter addressed to the Ministry of Interior regarding the dissolution of the Parliament of Kenya, dated 24th September and signed by LSK President.
- [Chief Justice of Kenya's Advice to President on Petitions for Dissolution of Parliament](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/chief-justice-of-kenyas-advice-to-president-on-petitions-for-dissolution-of-parliament/) - An advice note dated 21st September 2020 issued by Chief Justice David Maraga to President Uhuru Kenyatta on petitions for the dissolution of Parliament due to failure to enact legislation required to implement the 2/3 gender rule.
- [Petition by David Ndii and 4 Others Against Proposed Constitutional Amendments](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/petition-by-david-ndii-and-4-others-against-proposed-constitutional-amendments/) - A petition dated 16th September 2020 by David Ndii, Jerotich Seii, James Gondi, Wanjiru Gikonyo and Ikal Angelei against proposed amendments to the Kenya Constitution.
- [US House Committee on Transport & Infrastructure - Final Boeing 737 Max Report](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/us-house-committee-on-transport-infrastructure-final-boeing-737-max-report/) - This report concludes the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure’s 18- month long investigation of the design, development, and certification of the 737 MAX aircraft, and related matters.
- [Council of Governors: Resolutions of the COVID-19 Conference - 31st Aug 2020](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/council-of-governors-resolutions-of-the-covid-19-conference-31st-aug-2020/) - Resolutions passed on 31st August 2020 by the Council of Governors of Kenya at the COVID-19 Conference.
- [IPSOS: KCPF Perceptions Study on Abortion, Homosexuality and 2010 Constitution](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/ipsos-kcpf-perceptions-study-on-abortion-homosexuality-and-2010-constitution/) - A survey commissioned by KCPF on public perception on abortion, homosexuality and 2010 Constitution.
- [Press Statement by KCPF on Nationwide Survey to Access Public Perceptions on Abortion, Homosexuality and 2010 Constitution](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/press-statement-by-kcpf-on-nationwide-survey-to-access-public-perceptions-on-abortion-homosexuality-and-2010-constitution/) - A statement released by Kenya Christian Professionals Forum (KCPF) on 28th August 2020.
- [Black CSOs Letter to World Bank - This Anti-Black Racism Must End](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/black-csos-letter-to-world-bank-this-anti-black-racism-must-end/) - A letter to President David Malpass of the World Bank from Black CSOs across the world dated 17th August 2020.
- [The 2020 Calendar of Cabinet & Its Standing Committees](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/the-2020-calendar-of-cabinet-its-standing-committees/) - A press release dated 16th August 2020 issued by Head of Public Service Mr Joseph Kinyua.
- [Kenya Gazette Vol. CXXII—No. 150 – Special (State Appointments)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-gazette-vol-cxxii-no-150-special-state-appointments/) - A gazette notice published on 7th August 2020 announcing appointments in various state corporations.
- [The Public Health (COVID-19 Religious Gatherings) Rules, 2020](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/the-public-health-covid-19-religious-gatherings-rules-2020/) - Rules issued on 23rd July 2020 by Cabinet Secretary for Health, Mutahi Kagwe on religious gatherings during the Coronavirus pandemic in Kenya.
- [Recommendation Concerning the Third Basis for Revenue Sharing Among County Governments](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/recommendation-concerning-the-third-basis-for-revenue-sharing-among-county-governments/) - A report by the Commission on Revenue Allocation concerning the Third Basis for Revenue Sharing commendation among County Governments for financial years 2019/20 - 2023/24.
- [LSK - Press Statement on Petition No.1 of 2020 Law Society of Kenya v Speaker of National Assembly and Speaker of Senate](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/lsk-press-statement-on-petition-no-1-of-2020-law-society-of-kenya-v-speaker-of-national-assembly-and-speaker-of-senate/) - A press statement issued on 30th July 2020 by the Law Society of Kenya on a petition related to the implementation of the 2/3 gender rule in Parliament.
- [CBK - Prospectus for Government of Kenya Infrastructure Bond Offer (2020)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/cbk-prospectus-for-government-of-kenya-infrastructure-bond-offer-2020/) - A prospectus for a Government of Kenya Infrastructure Bond Offer released by the Central Bank of Kenya on 27th July 2020.
- [World Bank - Elite Capture of Foreign Aid: Evidence From Offshore Bank Accounts](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/world-bank-elite-capture-of-foreign-aid-evidence-from-offshore-bank-accounts/) - A policy research working paper published by the World Bank Group in February 2020 on elite capture of foreign aid.
- [ISS/HSF - Impact of COVID-19 in Africa Analysis](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/iss-hsf-impact-of-covid-19-in-africa-analysis/) - An analysis by the Institute for Security Studies and Hanns Seidel Foundation on the impact of COVID-19 in Africa.
- [GeoPoll - The Financial Impact of Coronavirus in Sub-Saharan Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/geopoll-the-financial-impact-of-coronavirus-in-sub-saharan-africa/) - A report released in July 2020 by researcher GeoPoll on the financial impact of COVID-19 on Sub-Saharan Africa.
- [Presidential Directive on Delivery of State Programmes and Projects in FY2020-21](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/presidential-directive-on-delivery-of-state-programmes-and-projects-in-fy2020-21/) - A Ministry of Education memo from CS Magoha dated 14th July 2020 on the presidential directives on delivery of state programmes and projects in Fiscal Year 2020-2021.
- [Report of the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget on the 3rd Basis for Revenue Allocation](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/report-of-the-standing-committee-on-finance-and-budget-on-the-3rd-basis-for-revenue-allocation/) - A report by the 12th Parliament's Standing Committee on Finance and Budget on the 3rd Basis for allocating among the counties the share of national revenue.
- [Report of the Commission of Inquiry Into the Illegal or Irregular Allocation of Public Land (2004)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/report-of-the-commission-of-inquiry-into-the-illegal-or-irregular-allocation-of-public-land-2004/) - A report released in 2004 by the Commission of Inquiry Into the Illegal or Irregular Allocation of Public Land.
- [Ministry of Health Kenya - Home-Based Isolation and Care Guidelines for COVID-19 Patients](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/ministry-of-health-kenya-home-based-isolation-and-care-guidelines-for-covid-19-patients/) - Guidelines issued by Kenya's Ministry of Health in June 2020 on home-based isolation and care for COVID-19 patients.
- [Proposed Kenya-USA Free Trade Agreement Negotiating Principles, Objectives and Scope](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/proposed-kenya-usa-free-trade-agreement-negotiating-principles-objectives-and-scope/) - A proposed Free Trade Agreement made public by the Ministry of Industrialization, Trade and Enterprise Development for public review.
- [Econews - Media Q & A on the Proposed Kenya-US Free Trade Agreement](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/econews-media-q-a-on-the-proposed-kenya-us-free-trade-agreement/) - Question and answers developed by Econews for the proposed Kenya-US Free Trade Agreement.
- [IPI - A Choice for Peace? The Story of Forty-One Days of Mediation in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/ipi-a-choice-for-peace-the-story-of-forty-one-days-of-mediation-in-kenya/) - A report published by The International Peace Institute (IPI) I 2009 detailing the efforts to mediate the deadly post-election dispute in Kenya in early 2008.
- [Econews Africa: The Kenya-United States Free Trade Agreement: Questions, Issues, Scope, Strategies, Prospects and Options](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/econews-africa-the-kenya-united-states-free-trade-agreement-questions-issues-scope-strategies-prospects-and-options/) - A memorandum published by Econews Africa.
- [East African Trade Network Statement on the Proposed Kenya-US Free Trade Agreement](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/east-african-trade-network-statement-on-the-proposed-kenya-us-free-trade-agreement/) - A press statement issued on 18th June 2020 opposing the proposed Free Trade Agreement between Kenya and the US.
- [Kenya: Budget Statement for Financial Year 2020/21](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-budget-statement-for-financial-year-2020-21/) - A statement delivered to the National Assembly in 2020 by Mr Henry K. Rotich, Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury, Republic of Kenya, when highlighting the budget policy and revenue raising measures for Fiscal Year 2020/21.
- [Kenya Gazette Notice No. 786 - Categorization of Health Facilities](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-gazette-notice-no-786-categorization-of-health-facilities/) - A gazette notice issued made on 4th February 2020.
- [8th Presidential Address on Coronavirus Pandemic - 6th June 2020](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/8th-presidential-address-on-coronavirus-pandemic-6th-june-2020/) - A presidential address made on 6th June 2020 by Pres. Uhuru Kenyatta on the coronavirus pandemic in Kenya.
- [Executive Order No. 1 of 2020 (Revised) – The President: Organization of the Government of the Republic of Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/executive-order-no-1-of-2020-revised-the-president-organization-of-the-government-of-the-republic-of-kenya/) - An executive order dated May 2020 by Pres. Uhuru Kenyatta on the reorganization of the government of the Republic of Kenya
- [Eminent Civil Society Leaders from Africa - Open Letter To The United Nations Security Council](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/eminent-civil-society-leaders-from-africa-open-letter-to-the-united-nations-security-council/) - An open letter published by eminent civil society leaders from Africa in May 2020 addressed to the United Nations Security Council regarding South Sudan.
- [KNBS - Survey on Socio Economic Impact of COVID-19 on Households Report](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/knbs-survey-on-socio-economic-impact-of-covid-19-on-households-report/) - A report published by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics in May 2020 on the impact of COVID-19 on households.
- [ICJ Kenya - Statement on the Arrest of Félicien Kabuga](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/icj-kenya-statement-on-the-arrest-of-felicien-kabuga/) - A statement issued by ICJ Kenya on 17th May 2020 on the arrest of Rwanda Genocide fugitive Felicien Kabuga.
- [IEBC - Recalled Data Report of 2017 Elections (April 2020)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/iebc-recalled-data-report-of-2017-elections-april-2020/) - A report published in April 2020 by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission of Kenya, presenting the results of the 2017 General and Fresh Presidential Election. This report was later recalled by IEBC citing errors in data.
- [The Referendum Bill, 2020](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/the-referendum-bill-2020/) - An Act of of Parliament to provide for the procedure of the approval of an amendment to the Constitution by a referendum, the conduct of a referendum, referendum petitions and for connected purposes.
- [Visibility of the Church in the Shadows of COVID 19](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/visibility-of-the-church-in-the-shadows-of-covid-19/) - A journal article published by Rev. Canon Francis Omondi in April 2020.
- [3rd Progress Report of the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on the COVID-19 Situation in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/3rd-progress-report-of-the-senate-ad-hoc-committee-on-the-covid-19-situation-in-kenya/) - A report dated 28th April 2020 by the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on the COVID-19.
- [Kenya National Bureau of Statistics – Economic Survey 2020](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-national-bureau-of-statistics-economic-survey-2020/) - A 2020 survey published by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics.
- [UN - Human Rights and COVID-19: We are all in this together](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/un-human-rights-and-covid-19-we-are-all-in-this-together/) - A report published in April 2020 by the United Nations on Human Rights and the COVID-19 pandemic.
- [MUHURI - Human Rights Based Approaches to Addressing COVID 19 Pandemic](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/muhuri-human-rights-based-approaches-to-addressing-covid-19-pandemic/) - A report published by MUHURI on COVID-19 in Kenya.
- [The Elephant and ZAM Magazine - Sense Making in the Time of Corona](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/the-elephant-and-zam-magazine-sense-making-in-the-time-of-corona/) - A statement by The Elephant and Zam Magazine on will building an alliance of like-minded people and partners worldwide to share stories.
- [Forecasting the Scale of the COVID-19 Epidemic in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/forecasting-the-scale-of-the-covid-19-epidemic-in-kenya/) - A paper by Samuel P. C. Brand, Rabia Aziza, Ivy K. Kombe, Charles N. Agoti, Joe Hilton, Kat S. Rock, Andrea Parisi, D. James Nokes, Matt J. Keeling and Edwine W. Barasa providing forecasts for the potential incidence rate, and magnitude, of a COVID-19 epidemic in Kenya.
- [Policy, Regulatory and Administrative Reforms in the Tea Sector in Kenya - April 2020](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/policy-regulatory-and-administrative-reforms-in-the-tea-sector-in-kenya-april-2020/) - An announcement made on 16th April 2020 by CS Peter Munya, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives on the tea sector.
- [Pres. Uhuru Kenyatta - Presidential Address of 16th April 2020 on COVID-19](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/pres-uhuru-kenyatta-presidential-address-of-16th-april-2020-on-covid-19/) - A presidential address on enhanced measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya.
- [Africa's Pulse - Assessing the Economic Impact of COVID-19 and Policy Responses in Sub-Saharan Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/africas-pulse-assessing-the-economic-impact-of-covid-19-and-policy-responses-in-sub-saharan-africa/) - A report published in April 2020 by the World Bank on the impact in COVID-19 in Africa.
- [Kenya - Update of Coronavirus Situation in County as at 12th April 2020](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-update-of-coronavirus-situation-in-county-as-at-12th-april-2020/) - An update by the CS Health on the status of the coronavirus pandemic in Kenya.
- [African Union - Press Statement of 12th April 2020](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/african-union-press-statement-of-12th-april-2020/) - A press statement released on 12th April 2020 by the Africa Union on the appointment of special envoys to mobilise international economic support for the continental fight against COVID-19.
- [Press Statement by Sen. James Orengo - 7th April 2020](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/press-statement-by-sen-james-orengo-7th-april-2020/) - A press statement issued on 7th April 2020 by Sen. James Orengo.
- [AU and African Private Sector Launch COVID-19 Response Fund](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/au-and-african-private-sector-launch-covid-19-response-fund/) - An AU press release dated 7th April 2020 on the launch of the COVID-19 Response Fund.
- [WHO - Advice on the use of masks in the context of COVID-19](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/who-advice-on-the-use-of-masks-in-the-context-of-covid-19/) - Interim guidance by WHO dated 6th April 2020 on use of masks for COVID-19.
- [INFOTRAK Coronavirus Poll - April 2020](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/infotrak-coronavirus-poll-april-2020/) - A poll by INFOTRACK released on 6th April 2020 on Coronavirus in Kenya.
- [Pres. Uhuru Kenyatta - Presidential Address of 6th April 2020 on COVID-19](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/pres-uhuru-kenyatta-presidential-address-of-6th-april-2020-on-covid-19/) - A presidential address on enhanced measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya.
- [AGRA - Position Paper on COVID-19](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/agra-position-paper-on-covid-19/) - A message from AGRA on the COVID-19 pandemic.
- [AUDA-NEPAD - A White Paper on COVID-19 & Other Epidemics Short & Medium Term Response](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/auda-nepad-a-white-paper-on-covid-19-other-epidemics-short-medium-term-response/) - A White Paper on AUDA-NEPAD Response to COVID-19 published on 2nd April 2020
- [African Union - Impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) on the African Economy](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/african-union-impact-of-the-coronavirus-covid-19-on-the-african-economy/) - A paper by the African Union on the impact of COVID-19 in Africa.
- [Communiqué of the African Union (AU) Bureau of Heads of State and Government](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/communique-of-the-african-union-au-bureau-of-heads-of-state-and-government/) - A communiqué dated 3rd April 2020 of the African Union (AU) Bureau of Heads of State and Government Teleconference Meeting.
- [COVID-19 CRISIS GROUP - Statement on the Reponses to the COVID-19 situation in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/covid-19-crisis-group-statement-on-the-reponses-to-the-covid-19-situation-in-kenya/) - A statement by the COVID-19 Crisis Group on the pandemic situation in Kenya.
- [UN-Habitat - The COVID-19 Outbreak: Socioeconomic Impact on Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/un-habitat-the-covid-19-outbreak-socioeconomic-impact-on-africa/) - A presentation dated 1st April 2020 by UN-Habitat on the impact of COVID-19 in Africa.
- [Africa CDC - Outbreak Brief #11: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/africa-cdc-outbreak-brief-11-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/) - A brief issued on 31st March 2020 by the Africa CDC on the COVID-19 pandemic.
- [Legal Notice No. 39 - Public Order (State Curfew) Variation Order](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/legal-notice-no-39-public-order-state-curfew-variation-order/) - A legal notice dated 30th March 2020 amending Public Order (State Curfew) Order.
- [Address by H.E. Yoweri K. Museveni President of the Republic of Uganda to the Nation on the Coronavirus (COVID-19)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/address-by-h-e-yoweri-k-museveni-president-of-the-republic-of-uganda-to-the-nation-on-the-coronavirus-covid-19/) - A presidential address issued on 30th March 2020 by Pres. Yoweri Museveni on COVID-19 in Uganda.
- [Petition No.120 of 2020 (COVID-19 Curfew)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/petition-no-120-of-2020-covid-19-curfew/) - Orders and directions of the court issued on 30th March 2020 relating to Petition No.120 of 2020.
- [Kenya Ministry of Health - Interim Guidance for COVID-19 Nutrition Management in Treatment and Isolation Centres](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-ministry-of-health-interim-guidance-for-covid-19-nutrition-management-in-treatment-and-isolation-centres/) - Ministry of Health guidelines issued on 27th March 2020 for nutrition management of COVID-19 in treatment and isolation centres in Kenya.
- [MUHURI - Press Statement on the Likoni Ferry Police Brutalities](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/muhuri-press-statement-on-the-likoni-ferry-police-brutalities/) - A press statement issued on 28th March 2020 by the Muslim s for Human Rights (MUHURI) organisation on the curfew-related police brutalities that occurred in Mombasa.
- [Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops - Press Statement on Police Brutality](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-conference-of-catholic-bishops-press-statement-on-police-brutality/) - A press statement issued on 28th March 2020 by Rt. Rev. John Oballa Owaa, Chairman KCCB – Catholic Justice and Peace Commission on the police brutality during the COVID-19 curfew.
- [Kenya Gazette Supplement No. 30 on VAT and Public Order Act](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-gazette-supplement-no-30-on-vat-and-public-order-act/) - A gazette notice issued made on 25th March 2020.
- [Statement by the Chief Justice of Kenya on Views Submitted to BBI Regarding the Judiciary](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/statement-by-the-chief-justice-of-kenya-on-views-submitted-to-bbi-regarding-the-judiciary/) - A statement issued on 26th March 2020 by Chief Justice of Kenya on views submitted to the Building Bridges Initiative regarding the Judiciary Service Commission and the Judiciary.
- [Joint Statement by Ministers Responsible for Health and EAC Affairs in Response to COVID-19](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/joint-statement-by-ministers-responsible-for-health-and-eac-affairs-in-response-to-covid-19/) - A joint statement issued on 25th March 2020 by Ministers responsible for health and EAC affairs on COVID-19 preparedness and response in the EAC region.
- [Jerotich Seii - Humanity in the Time of COVID 19](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/jerotich-seii-humanity-in-the-time-of-covid-19/) - A statement issued on 23th March 2020 by Jerotich Seii, an active citizen and humanitarian & development consultant.
- [Pres. Uhuru Kenyatta - Presidential Address of 25th March 2020 on COVID-19](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/pres-uhuru-kenyatta-presidential-address-of-25th-march-2020-on-covid-19/) - A presidential address made on 25th March 2020 by Pres. Uhuru Kenyatta on the state interventions to cushion Kenyans against economic effects of the COVID 19 pandemic.
- [Open Letter to President Uhuru Kenyatta](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/open-letter-to-president-uhuru-kenyatta/) - An open letter published on 25th March 2020 by economist David Ndii to President Uhuru Kenyatta on COVID-19.
- [Open Letter to the Church in Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/open-letter-to-the-church-in-africa/) - An open letter to the church in Africa dated 25th March 2020 by writers Darius Okolla and Joe Kobuthi.
- [National Policy for Disaster Management in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/national-policy-for-disaster-management-in-kenya/) - A national policy for disaster management in Kenya, published in March 2009 by the Ministry of State for Special Programmes in the Office of the President.
- [Statement by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Escalation of Measures to Combat COVID-19 Epidemic](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/statement-by-south-african-president-cyril-ramaphosa-on-escalation-of-measures-to-combat-covid-19-epidemic/) - A statement issued on 23rd March 2020 by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on the COVID-19 Epidemic.
- [Coronavirus Prevention Handbook 101](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/coronavirus-prevention-handbook-101/) - A handbook written and published by Wang Zhou, MD, Chief Physician for Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
- [Communist Party of Kenya Press Statement on the COVID 19 Pandemic](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/communist-party-of-kenya-press-statement-on-the-covid-19-pandemic/) - A press statement issued on 18th March 2020 by Booker Ngesa Omole, Vice-Chairperson of the Communist Party of Kenya on the COVID-19 pandemic.
- [Law Society of Kenya - Proposed Relief Measures to Mitigate effects of COVID-19 in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/law-society-of-kenya-proposed-relief-measures-to-mitigate-effects-of-covid-19-in-kenya/) - A letter from the Law Society of Kenya issued on 23rd March 2020 to the CS Ministry of National Treasury and Planning on relief measures to mitigate effects of COVID-19 on businesses and investments in Kenya.
- [National Emergency Response Committee Press Statement on the Update of Coronavirus in the Country and Response Measures as at 22nd March 2020](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/national-emergency-response-committee-press-statement-on-the-update-of-coronavirus-in-the-country-and-response-measures-as-at-22nd-march-2020/) - A press statement issued by Kenya's COVID-19 National Emergency Response Committee on 22nd March 2020.
- [Central Bank of Kenya Press Release - Emergency Measures to Facilitate Mobile Money Transactions](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/central-bank-of-kenya-press-release-emergency-measures-to-facilitate-mobile-money-transactions/) - A press statement issued by the Central Bank of Kenya on 16th March 2020 on emergency measures to reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) by handling banknotes.
- [Safaricom Position Statement - 16 March 2020](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/safaricom-postition-statement-16-march-2020/) - A press statement issued on 16th March 2020 by Safaricom waiving fees for MPESA transactions below Ksh.1,000.
- [National Address by the President of Kenya on COVID-19 (Coronavirus)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/national-address-by-the-president-of-kenya-on-covid-19-coronavirus/) - A national address issued on 15th March 2020 by President Uhuru Kenyatta on Covid-19 (Coronavirus).
- [Press Statement by Keroche Breweries on KRA](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/press-statement-by-keroche-breweries-on-kra/) - A press statement issued on 12th March 2020 by Keroche Breweries CEO on KRA.
- [Government of Kenya Directive on Coronavirus Outbreak](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/government-of-kenya-directive-on-coronavirus-outbreak/) - A directive issued by the Head of Public Service on 28th February 2020 on the coronavirus outbreak.
- [Executive Order No. 2 of 2020 – National Emergency Response Committee on Coronavirus](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/executive-order-no-2-of-2020-national-emergency-response-committee-on-coronavirus/) - An executive order issued on 28th February 2020 by Pres. Uhuru Kenyatta on the coronavirus response.
- [ODM Feedback on the Report of the BBI Taskforce](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/odm-feedback-on-the-report-of-the-bbi-taskforce/) - A memorandum presented by the Orange Democratic Movement Party to the Steering Committee on the Implementation of the Building Bridges to a United Kenya Taskforce.
- [Communist Party of Kenya Position on BBI](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/communist-party-of-kenya-position-on-bbi/) - A statement by Booker Ngesa Omole, Vice-Chairperson of the Communist Party of Kenya released on 22nd February 2020 on the Building Bridges Initiative.
- [Eurobond II Prospectus - The National Treasury (Kenya)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/eurobond-ii-prospectus-the-national-treasury-kenya/) - Issued in March 2018
- [Keynote Address By Dr. Willy Mutunga At The Malawi Law Society Annual Conference](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/keynote-address-by-dr-willy-mutunga-at-the-malawi-law-society-annual-conference/) - A keynote address made by Dr. Justice (Rtd) Willy Mutunga on 22nd February 2019 at the Malawi Law Society Annual Conference in Nkopola, Mangochi, Malawi.
- [Building Bridges Initiative Steering Committee Press Release](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/building-bridges-initiative-steering-committee-press-release/) - A press release issued on 31st January 2020 by the Steering Committee on the implementation of the Building Bridges to a United Kenya Task Force.
- [Gazette Vol. CXXII—No. 7 Special (BBI Taskforce)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/gazette-vol-cxxii-no-7-special-bbi-taskforce/) - A Kenya Gazette notice issued on 10th January 2020 regarding the appointment of the Steering Committee on the Implementation of the Building Bridges to a United Kenya Taskforce Report.
- [Muslim Leaders Statement on the BBI Taskforce Report](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/muslim-leaders-statement-on-the-bbi-taskforce-report/) - A press statement released on 15th December 2019 by Muslim leaders in Kenya on the BBI Taskforce Report.
- [Building Bridges to a United Kenya: from a nation of blood ties to a nation of ideals](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/building-bridges-to-a-united-kenya-from-a-nation-of-blood-ties-to-a-nation-of-ideals/) - A report by the Presidential Taskforce on Building Bridges to Unity Advisory released in November 2019.
- [Press Statement of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Deteriorating Human Rights Situation in Tanzania](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/press-statement-of-the-african-commission-on-human-and-peoples-rights-on-the-deteriorating-human-rights-situation-in-tanzania/) - A press statement released on 22nd November 2019 by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights on increasing human rights violations in Tanzania.
- [Contract Agreement between KVDA and CMC di Ravenna - Itinera Joint Venture for Arror Dam](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/contract-agreement-between-kvda-and-cmc-di-ravenna-itinera-joint-venture-for-arror-dam/) - A contract agreement (KVDA/RPF/36/2014-15) between Kerio Valley Development Authority and CMC di Ravenna - Itinera Joint Venture made on 5th April 2017 for works on the Arror Multipurpose Dam Development Project on River Arror.
- [Contract Agreement between KVDA and CMC di Ravenna - Itinera Joint Venture for Kimwarer Dam](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/contract-agreement-between-kvda-and-cmc-di-ravenna-itinera-joint-venture-for-kimwarer-dam/) - A contract agreement (KVDA/RPF/36/2014-15) between Kerio Valley Development Authority and CMC di Ravenna - Itinera Joint Venture made on 5th April 2017 for works on the Arror Multipurpose Dam Development Project on River Arror.
- [Consultancy Agreement between C.M.C. di Ravenna South Africa Branch and Stansha Limited, 2013](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/consultancy-agreement-between-c-m-c-di-ravenna-south-africa-branch-and-stansha-limited-2013/) - A consultancy agreement signed in November 2013 between C.M.C. di Ravenna South Africa Branch and Stansha Limited (a company registered in Kenya) for the general purposes to provide consultancy services for the Itare Dam and Ruiru II Dam project.
- [DPP’s Press Statement on Investigations Concerning KVDA and Rift Valley Water Services Board](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/dpps-press-statement-on-investigations-concerning-kvda-and-rift-valley-water-services-board/) - A press statement issued on 8th March 2019 by Kenya's Director of Public Prosecutions on investigations concerning KVDA and Rift Valley Water Services Board
- [General Act of the Berlin Conference on West Africa, 26 February 1885](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/general-act-of-the-berlin-conference-on-west-africa-26-february-1885/) - General Act of the Berlin Conference signed by the representatives of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, the United States of America, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Sweden-Norway, and Turkey (Ottoman Empire) on 26 February 1885.
- [Statement by Chief Justice of Kenya on Budget Cuts](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/statement-by-chief-justice-of-kenya-on-budget-cuts/) - A statement issued on 4th November 2019 by Hon. David K. Maraga, Chief Justice and President of the Supreme Court of Kenya, on the Judiciary budget cuts.
- [2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census - Vol. 1](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/2019-kenya-population-and-housing-census-vol-1/) - The 2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census Volume I report presents the distribution of the enumerated population by sex; number of households; and average household size, at national, county and sub-county levels.
- [Kenya Conference of Catholics Bishops Statement on Corruption During the National Prayers Day 2019](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-conference-of-catholics-bishops-statement-on-corruption-during-the-national-prayers-day-2019/) - A press statement on corruption issued by the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops on 5th October 2019 at the National Prayer Day held at the Subukia Shrine in the Diocese of Nakuru.
- [The Kenya Information and Communication (Amendment) Bill, 2019](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/the-kenya-information-and-communication-amendment-bill-2019/) - A bill for an Act of Parliament to amend the Information and Communications Act.
- [“Captured” at Conception: The Unlikely Promise of BBI and the Quest for Reforming Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/captured-at-conception-the-unlikely-promise-of-bbi-and-the-quest-for-reforming-kenya/) - A “ground zero” report published in September 2019 by the Uwazi Consortium revealing that the Building Bridges Initiative is unlikely to deliver up to the expectations of the people of Kenya.
- [Building Bridges Initiative - Technical Committee Proposals](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/building-bridges-initiative-technical-committee-proposals/) - Proposals developed by the Building Bridges Initiative Technical Taskforce.
- [Memorandum of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) to the Building Bridges Initiatve (BBI)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/memorandum-of-the-judicial-service-commission-jsc-to-the-building-bridges-initiatve-bbi/) - A memorandum published in August 2019 by the Judicial Service Commission to the BBI Taskforce.
- [Insights on the Peace and Security Council: Session on Kenya-Somalia maritime boundary dispute](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/insights-on-the-peace-and-security-council-session-on-kenya-somalia-maritime-boundary-dispute/) - A report released on 3rd September 2019 by Amani Africa, an independent African based policy research; training and consulting think tank.
- [Devolution in Kenya: Driving Forces and Future Scenarios](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/devolution-in-kenya-driving-forces-and-future-scenarios/) - A report authored by Thomas Todtling, Conrad Bosire and Ursula Eysin in 2018 on devolution in Kenya.
- [Ugatuzi Initiative Proposals on Constitution Amendment](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/ugatuzi-initiative-proposals-on-constitution-amendment/) - Constitution amendment proposals developed by the County Governments Joint Committee (Ugatuzi Initiative).
- [Muslims Proposals on Constitutional Reform 2019](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/muslims-proposals-on-constitutional-reform-2019/) - A document published by Kenyan Muslim leaders in July 2019 containing proposals on constitutional reform.
- [Report of the Task Force on Consumptive Wildlife Utilization in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/report-of-the-task-force-on-consumptive-wildlife-utilization-in-kenya/) - A report published in January 2019 by the Kenya Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife, supported by the Government of Kenya with technical input from the members of Task Force on consumptive wildlife utilization.
- [Executive Order No 6 of 2019 - Presidential Action: Changes in the Structure of the Executive](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/executive-order-no-6-of-2019-presidential-action-changes-in-the-structure-of-the-executive/) - An executive order issued on 22nd August 2019 by Pres. Uhuru Kenyatta reorganizing ministries, state departments and state agencies.
- [AfDB - Annual Development Effectiveness Review 2019](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/afdb-annual-development-effectiveness-review-2019/) - An annual report published by the African Development Bank in June 2019. The Annual Development Effectiveness Review (ADER) provides an overview of Africa’s development in each of the High 5 priority areas and of the contribution that the African Development Bank (the Bank) has made to that progress.
- [The Huduma Bill, 2019](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/the-huduma-bill-2019/) - A Bill for an Act of Parliament to establish the National Integrated Identity Management System; to promote efficient delivery of public services; to consolidate and harmonise the law on the registration of persons; to facilitate assigning of Huduma Namba and issuance of identity documents; to facilitate registration of births and deaths; and for connected purposes.
- [Infotrack Voice of the People Poll - July 2019](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/infotrack-voice-of-the-people-poll-july-2019/) - A syndicated poll sponsored and conducted by Infotrack Research and Consulting between 22nd-23rd June 2019 involving 1024 respondents, covering 24 counties.
- [Judgement in the National Environmental Tribunal Appeal No. NET 196 of 2016 (Save Lamu)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/judgement-in-the-national-environmental-tribunal-appeal-no-net-196-of-2016-save-lamu/) - A ruling dated 26th June 2019 in the National Environmental Tribunal Appeal No. NET 196 of 2016 (Save Lamu and five others versus NEMA and AMU Power Company Ltd.
- [Kenya: Budget Statement for Financial Year 2019/20](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-budget-statement-for-financial-year-2019-20-2/) - A statement delivered to the National Assembly in 2019 by Mr Henry K. Rotich, Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury, Republic of Kenya, when highlighting the budget policy and revenue raising measures for Fiscal Year 2019/20.
- [Kenya Budget Statement for Financial Year 2019/20](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-budget-statement-for-financial-year-2019-20/) - A budget statement for the 2019/20 financial year read by CS Finance Henry Rotich on 13th June 2019 at the National Assembly.
- [Open Letter to Eritrean President by African Democracy Advocates, Journalists and Human Rights Activists on Incarcerated Eritrean Colleagues](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/open-letter-to-eritrean-president-by-african-democracy-advocates-journalists-and-human-rights-activists-on-incarcerated-eritrean-colleagues/) - An open letter to Eritrea’s President Isaias Aferwerki by 100 leading African journalists, democracy and human rights advocates, released Monday 10th June 2019, requesting the head of state an opportunity to visit their colleagues incarcerated in Eritrea.
- [Press Statement by African Democracy Advocates, Journalists and Human Rights Activists in Solidarity with Incarcerated Eritrean Colleagues](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/press-statement-by-african-democracy-advocates-journalists-and-human-rights-activists-in-solidarity-with-incarcerated-eritrean-colleagues/) - A press statement by 100 leading African journalists, democracy and human rights advocates on the release of an open letter to Eritrea’s President Isaias Aferwerki, released Monday 10th June 2019, requesting the head of state an opportunity to visit their colleagues incarcerated in Eritrea.
- [Chief Justice Maraga's Speech at the 2019 Oxford Union Conference](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/chief-justice-maragas-speech-at-the-2019-oxford-union-conference/) - Remarks by Chief Justice David Maraga on 4th June 2019 titled "The Quest for Constitutionalism in Africa: A Reflection on the Interface Between Institutions, Leadership, and Faith" at Oxford University, UK.
- [High Court Judgment - Petition No 295 of 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/hight-court-judgment-petition-no-295-of-2018/) - A High Court judgment delivered on 31st May 2019 regarding a petition against criminal prosecution of Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu.
- [Democratic Republic of Congo, 1993 - 2003: Mapping Report (2010)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/democratic-republic-of-congo-1993-2003-mapping-report-2010/) - Report of the Mapping Exercise published in August 2010 by United Nations Human Rights documenting the most serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law committed within the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between March 1993 and June 2003
- [AfriCOG - State Capture: Inside Kenya’s Inability to Fight Corruption](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/africog-state-capture-inside-kenyas-inability-to-fight-corruption/) - This is a 'State of the Nation' report released in May 2019 by the Africa Centre for Open Governance (AfriCOG), explaining why President Uhuru Kenyatta's current anti-corruption efforts are unlikely to work. The problem, the study shows, is state capture; that is the repurposing of state institutions for private profiteering. The study concludes that publicity-driven prosecutions are likely to deepen rather than undermine corruption, as indictments and prosecutions get weaponised to partisan ends for the 2022 elections.
- [Twaweza Press Release - 9 out of 10 Kenyans Are Dissatisfied with the Country’s Economic Management](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/twaweza-press-release-9-out-of-10-kenyans-are-dissatisfied-with-the-countrys-economic-management/) - A press release dated 20th May 2019 issued by Twaweza on findings from a research brief titled "The Big Four Agenda: Kenyans’ views on current public policy issues".
- [H.E Uhuru Kenyatta - Press Statement on Conclusion of Mass Registration for Huduma Namba](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/h-e-uhuru-kenyatta-press-statement-on-conclusion-of-mass-registration-for-huduma-namba/) - A press statement dated 17th May 2019 issued by President Uhuru Kenyatta on the conclusion of mass registration for Huduma Namba.
- [Dr Willy Mutunga - Remarks at the Civil Society Platform on the John Githongo Decision on Defamation](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/dr-willy-mutunga-remarks-at-the-civil-society-platform-on-the-john-githongo-decision-on-defamation/) - Remarks made on 17th May 2019 by former Kenya Chief Justice Dr Willy Mutunga at the Civil Society Platform on the John Githongo Decision on Defamation.
- [Law Society of Kenya Press Statement on Huduma Namba and Housing Levy](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/law-society-of-kenya-press-statement-on-huduma-namba-and-housing-levy/) - A press statement dated 17th May 2019 by the Law Society of Kenya on registration for Huduma Namba and payment of the housing levy.
- [High Court Ruling No.3 on Consolidated Petitions 56, 58 and 59 of 2019](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/high-court-ruling-no-3-on-consolidated-petitions-56-58-and-59-of-2019/) - A High Court ruling dated 1st April 2019 on the petitions relating to the Kenya National Integrated Information Management System (NIIMS / Huduma Namba).
- [National Treasury and Planning Press Statement on 2019 Eurobond](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/national-treasury-and-planning-press-statement-on-2019-eurobond/) - A press statement issued on 15th May 2019 by Henry Rotich, CS National Treasury and Planning, on the USD 2.1 billion Eurobond issued on 15th May 2019.
- [Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops' Press Statement](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-conference-of-catholic-bishops-press-statement-2019/) - A press statement dated 10th May issued by the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops.
- [60 Days of Independence - Kenya’s judiciary through three presidential election petitions](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/60-days-of-independence-kenyas-judiciary-through-three-presidential-election-petitions/) - A publication released in April 2019 by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ Kenya) chronicling the struggles of Kenya’s judiciary for independence in the context of growing demands for accountability.
- [Kenya Gazette Vol. CXXI – No.58 – Special (State Appointments)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-gazette-vol-cxxi-no-58-special-state-appointments/) - A Kenya Gazette published on 7th May 2019 with state appointments.
- [Wezesha Bank Cartel](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/wezesha-bank-cartel/) - An internal document entitled ‘Restoring Credit Access to Micro and Small Sized Businesses’ shared by whistleblowers in institutions that have been corralled into the Wezesha scheme by force.
- [John Githongo - Personal Statement on Ruling of High Court Case 466 of 2006](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/john-githongo-personal-statement-on-ruling-of-high-court-case-466-of-2006/) - A statement by John Githongo released on 2nd May 2019 on a High Court ruling on a case relating to Anglo Leasing.
- [Kenya National Bureau of Statistics – Economic Survey 2019](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-national-bureau-of-statistics-economic-survey-2019/) - A 2019 survey published by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics.
- [NCIC Kenya - Ethnic and Diversity Audit of Parastatals (2016)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/ncic-kenya-ethnic-and-diversity-audit-of-parastatals-2016/) - An audit report published in 2016 by the National Cohesion and Integrity Commission of Kenya on the ethnic and diversity of State Corporations in Kenya.
- [Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) Press Statement on the Fight Against Corruption](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/anglican-church-of-kenya-ack-press-statement-on-the-fight-against-corruption/) - A press statement dated 23rd April 2019 by the Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Kenya on the fight against corruption.
- [Are Kenya Counties Making Budget Documents Available to the Public? A Review of County Websites - March 2019](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/are-kenya-counties-making-budget-documents-available-to-the-public-a-review-of-county-websites-march-2019/) - A March 2019 bi-annual study published by IBP Kenya on the public availability of key budget documents in Kenya’s 47 counties.
- [Huduma Smart Service and Payment Card Information Pack](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/huduma-smart-service-and-payment-card-information-pack/) - An information pack on the Huduma Card.
- [2019 State of the Nation Address - Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/2019-state-of-the-nation-address-kenya/) - 2019 State of the nation address delivered on 4th April 2019 by H.E Uhuru Kenyatta
- [2019 World Development Report: The Changing Nature of Work](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/2019-world-development-report-the-changing-nature-of-work/) - A World Bank Group Flagship Report published in 2019.
- [2019 Ibrahim Forum Report - Africa's Youth: Jobs or Migration?](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/2019-ibrahim-forum-report-africas-youth-jobs-or-migration/) - A 2019 Mo Ibrahim Foundation Forum Report
- [Kenya Gazette Vol. CXXI—No. 38 Special (Ojwang Tribunal)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-gazette-vol-cxxi-no-38-special-ojwang-tribunal/) - A Kenya Gazette notice dated 29th March 2019 appointing members of a tribunal to investigate the conduct of Justice Jackton Boma Ojwang, Judge of the Supreme Court of Kenya.
- [High Court Ruling on the Rolling Out of the National Integrated Information Management System (NIIMS/Huduma Namba)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/high-court-ruling-on-the-rolling-out-of-the-national-integrated-information-management-system-niims-huduma-namba/) - A High Court ruling issued on 1st April 2019.
- [Ufungamano Press Conference - Referendum and Corruption](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/ufungamano-press-conference-referendum-and-corruption/) - A press statement issued on 26th March 2019 by Ufungamano, the Joint Forum of Religious Organisations regarding the need for a referendum and corruption in Kenya.
- [Kenya Gazette Vol. CXXI – No.34 – Special (Appointments)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-gazette-vol-cxxi-no-34-special-appointments/) - A Kenya Gazette published on 22nd March 2019 with state appointments.
- [Judicial Service Commission of Kenya Press Statement on Petitions Against Judges of Superior Courts](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/judicial-service-commission-of-kenya-press-statement-on-petitions-against-judges-of-superior-courts/) - A press statement issued on 20th March 2019 by the Judicial Service Commission of Kenya.
- [Somalia: The Hidden US War in Somalia; Civilian Casualties from Air Strikes in Lower Shabelle](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/somalia-the-hidden-us-war-in-somalia-civilian-casualties-from-air-strikes-in-lower-shabelle/) - An Amnesty International report published in March 2019. Since April 2017, the United States of America (USA) has dramatically increased the number of air strikes – from manned aircraft and unmanned drones – it has launched in Somalia, tripling the annual rate of attacks and, in 2018, outpacing US strikes in Libya and Yemen combined. Despite this escalation, the US government claims that it has not killed any civilians in Somalia during this period. In this report, Amnesty International provides credible evidence to the contrary. The report investigates five incidents in Lower Shabelle, Somalia, in which 14 civilians were killed and eight injured. It provides credible evidence that US air strikes were responsible for four of these incidents and that the fifth was most plausibly caused by a US air strike.
- [World Happiness Report 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/world-happiness-report-2018/) - The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness. The World Happiness Report 2018, published on 20th March 2019, ranks 156 countries by their happiness levels, and 117 countries by the happiness of their immigrants. The main focus of this year’s report, in addition to its usual ranking of the levels and changes in happiness around the world, is on migration within and between countries. Helliwell, J., Layard, R., & Sachs, J. (2018). World Happiness Report 2018, New York: Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
- [Judicial Service Commission of Kenya - Promotion of Magistrates 2019](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/judicial-service-commission-of-kenya-promotion-of-magistrates-2019/) - An internal memo released on 12th March 2019 on the promotion of magistrates in Kenya.
- [AfDB Africa Economic Outlook 2019](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/afdb-africa-economic-outlook-2019/) - A 2019 report released by the Africa Development Bank highlighting economic prospects and projections for the continent as a whole and for each of the 54 countries. It offers short and medium-term forecasts on the main socio-economic factors such as jobs, while at the same time examining the challenges and progress.
- [Re-Inventing Africa’s Development: Linking Africa to the Korean Development Model](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/re-inventing-africas-development-linking-africa-to-the-korean-development-model/) - A 2019 open access book by Jong-Dae Park analysing the development problems of sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) from the eyes of a Korean diplomat with knowledge of the economic growth Korea has experienced in recent decades.
- [Kenya Food Composition Tables 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-food-composition-tables-2018/) - The Ministry of Health and Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation with support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) developed the Kenya Food Composition Tables (KFCT) in 2018. Food composition databases provide a scientific base for understanding the inherent nutrient quality of foods and are important in several fields such as community and clinical nutrition, public health and education, agriculture and food manufacturing.
- [Executive Order No. 3 of 2019 - Presidential Action: Reorganization of the Government of Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/executive-order-no-3-of-2019-presidential-action-reorganization-of-the-government-of-kenya/) - An executive order issued on 1st March 2019 by Pres. Uhuru Kenyatta vacating appointments, reappointing and reassigning government officials.
- [NCCK Press Statement - Give Kenya a Non Divisive Referendum](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/ncck-press-statement-give-kenya-a-non-divisive-referendum/) - A press statement issued by the National Council of Churches of Kenya on 27th February 2019 regarding an amendment to the Constitution of Kenya.
- [Report for the All-African Peoples’ Conference @ 60](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/report-for-the-all-african-peoples-conference-60/) - A conference report for the 60th anniversary of the All-African Peoples’ Conference held from the 5th-8th December 2018 at the University of Ghana.
- [Report of the Joint Technical Committee on the Improvement of Efficiency and Cost Effectiveness of Transportation of Cargo Using SGR](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/report-of-the-joint-technical-committee-on-the-improvement-of-efficiency-and-cost-effectiveness-of-transportation-of-cargo-using-sgr/) - A report released in February 2019 showing it costs an average 133.5 per cent more to transport cargo using the SGR rail system.
- [The failure of the “single source of truth about Kenyans”: the National Digital Registry System, collateral mysteries and the Safaricom monopoly](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/the-failure-of-the-single-source-of-truth-about-kenyans-the-national-digital-registry-system-collateral-mysteries-and-the-safaricom-monopoly/) - A paper published by Keith Breckenridge on 23 August 2017 exploring the recent failure of an elaborate biometric registration scheme, the National Digital Registry System, in Kenya. The paper shows that the Kenyan and South African economies are closely linked in their obsessions with biometric identification registration, and financialisation, but it also draws out the particular significance, in the Kenyan case of a conflict over the form and ownership of credit information as collateral.
- [IEBC Post Election Evaluation Report for 2017 Kenya Elections](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/iebc-post-election-evaluation-report-for-2017-kenya-elections/) - An Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) post-election evaluation report released on 12th February 2018 for Kenya's 8th August 2017 General Election and 26th October 2017 fresh Presidential election.
- [Kenya Gazette Vol. CXXI-No. 15 Special](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-gazette-vol-cxxi-no-15-special/) - A Kenya Gazette published on 4th February 2019 with appointments to state commissions and boards.
- [Executive Order No.2 of 2019 - Management and Co-ordination of National Transport and Safety](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/executive-order-no-2-of-2019-management-and-co-ordination-of-national-transport-and-safety/) - An executive order issued on 21st January 2019 by Pres. Uhuru Kenyatta on the management and coordination of national transport and safety.
- [Executive Order No.1 of 2019 - Framework for Co-ordination and Implementation of National Government Development Programmes and Projects](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/executive-order-no-1-of-2019-framework-for-co-ordination-and-implementation-of-national-government-development-programmes-and-projects/) - An executive order issued on 21st January 2019 by Pres. Uhuru Kenyatta on the framework for coordination and implementation of National Government development programmes and projects
- [Kenya Gazette Vol. CXX - No.156 - Special (Appointments)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-gazette-vol-cxx-no-156-special-appointments/) - A Kenya Gazette published on 21st December 2018 with appointments to state commissions and boards.
- [Constitutional Petition 51 of 2018 - Judgment (PDF)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/constitutional-petition-51-of-2018-judgment-pdf/) - The judgement made by the court in a petition filed by Miguna Miguna versus Fred Matiang'i and four others - regarding his Kenya citizenship status.
- [EACC - Press statement on appointment of Commission's CEO](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/eacc-press-statement-on-appointment-of-commissions-ceo/) - A press statement released on 29th November 2018 by Chairperson of the Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission regarding the appointment of Twalib Abdallah Mbarak as new Secretary/Chief Executive Officer
- [Medical Practitioners & Dentists Board letter to Marie Stopes Kenya on abortion services](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/medical-practitioners-dentists-board-letter-to-marie-stopes-kenya-on-abortion-services/) - A letter dated 14th November from the Medical Practitioners & Dentists Board ordering Marie Stopes Kenya to stop offering any form of abortion services.
- [Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea - 2018 Report on Somalia ](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/monitoring-group-on-somalia-and-eritrea-2018-report-on-somalia/) - A report published in October 2018 on Somalia by the Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea.
- [South Africa Scraps Short-term Visas Requirements for Kenyans](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/south-africa-scraps-short-term-visas-requirements-for-kenyans/) - A press release issued on 5th November 2018 by the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government regarding South African visa requirements.
- [Free and safe movement in East Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/free-and-safe-movement-in-east-africa/) - A report released on 22nd October 2018 by The Open Society Foundation on promoting safe and unencumbered movement of people across East Africa’s international borders.
- [GAB - An International Anticorruption Court Is Not a Utopian Dream or a Distraction](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/global-anticorruption-blog-an-international-anticorruption-court-is-not-a-utopian-dream-or-a-distraction/) - An article published on the Global Anticorruption Blog by Richard Goldstone, a former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa who also served as the first chief prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and Robert Rotberg, the President Emeritus of the World Peace Foundation and former professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
- [ODPP - Press Statement on Investigations Into Allegations of Mismanagement of Funds During 2016 Rio Olympics](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/odpp-press-statement-on-investigations-into-allegations-of-mismanagement-of-funds-during-2016-rio-olympics/) - A press statement issued on 13th October 2018 by DPP Noordin Haji on investigations relating to the 2016 Rio Olympics.
- [Statement by Ezra Chiloba on Termination of Service at IEBC](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/statement-by-ezra-chiloba-on-termination-of-service-at-iebc/) - A press statement dated 12th October 2018 by IEBC CEO Ezra Chiloba on termination of service.
- [CS Matiangi Press Statement on Status of 10th October as a Public Holiday](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/cs-matiangi-press-statement-on-status-of-10th-october-as-a-public-holiday/) - A press statement issued by Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government Fred Matiangi on the status of 10th October 2018 (Moi Day).
- [NASA Coalition Manifesto 2017](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/nasa-coalition-manifesto-2017/) - NASA Coalition manifesto for the 2017 Kenya General Election.
- [DPP Press Release on Inquiry into Allegations of Abduction and Murder of Sharon Belyne Otieno](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/dpp-press-release-inquiry-into-allegations-of-abduction-and-murder-of-sharon-belyne-otieno/) - A press release dated 23rd September 2018 issued by the Director of Public Prosecutions on the inquiry into allegations of abduction and murder of Sharon Belyne Otieno.
- [Harambee - Pooling Together or Pulling Apart?](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/harambee-pooling-together-or-pulling-apart/) - A study conducted by a Transparency International Kenya research team comprising of Anne Waiguru, David Ndii, Gideon Mutiso and John Githongo. First published in 2001.
- [1st National Dialogue Conference Communique of 12th September 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/1st-national-dialogue-conference-communique/) - A communique released on 12th September 2018 of the first National Dialogue Conference (NDC1) convened by the Dialogue Reference Group (DRG).
- [Communique of the NCCK 63rd General Assembly - Dialogue for a Better Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/communique-of-the-ncck-63rd-general-assembly-dialogue-for-a-better-kenya/) - A communique of the NCCK 63rd General Assembly issued on 30th August 2018.
- [DPP Press Statement on Investigations Into Irregular Purchase of Maize](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/dpp-press-statement-on-investigations-into-irregular-purchase-of-maize/) - A press statement released on 30th August 2018 by DPP Noordin Haji on investigations into the alleged irregular purchase of maize.
- [Kenya Data Protection Bill 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-data-protection-bill-2018/) - A Bill for AN ACT of Parliament to give effect to Article 3 1(c) and (d) of the Constitution; to promote the protection of personal data; to regulate the manner in which personal data may be processed; to provide persons with rights and remedies to protect their personal data; and to regulate the flow of personal information across the borders of the country; and for connected purposes.
- [DPP's Press Statement on the Arrest and Prosecution of Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/dpps-press-statement-on-the-arrest-and-prosecution-of-deputy-chief-justice-philomena-mwilu/) - A press statement issued on 28th August 2018 by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions on the arrest and prosecution of deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu in relation to corruption.
- [IEBC Press Update on Resignation of former Commissioners](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/iebc-press-update-on-resignation-of-former-commissioners/) - A press statement issued on 25th August 2018 by IEBC Chair on the resignation of former commissioners.
- [IEBC Replying Affidavit in Petition No.160 of 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/iebc-replying-affidavit-in-petition-no-160-of-2018/) - A replying affidavit in Petition 160 of 2018 filed by IEBC Chair Wafula Chebukati on 8th May 2018
- [IEBC Staff Changes - 14th Aug 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/iebc-staff-changes-14th-aug-2018/) - Download PDF IEBC Staff Changes 14th Aug 2018 (PDF) IEBC Staff Changes 14th Aug 2018 (Text)
- [Report of the Inquiry into Alleged Importation of Illegal and Contaminated Sugar in the Country](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/report-of-the-inquiry-into-alleged-importation-of-illegal-and-contaminated-sugar-in-the-country/) - An August 2018 report containing proceedings of the Joint Committees on Trade, Industry & Cooperatives and Agriculture & Livestock in the inquiry into the alleged importation of sugar unfit for human consumption into the Country.
- [The Waki Report (Commission of Inquiry into Post-Election Violence)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/the-waki-report-commission-of-inquiry-into-post-election-violence/) - A report released on 15 October 2008 by the Commission of Inquiry into Post-Election Violence (CIPEV), established to investigate the facts and circumstances surrounding the violence, the conduct of state security agencies in their handling of it, and to make recommendations concerning these and other matters.
- [County Budget Implementation Review Report - Third Quarter FY 2017-18](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/county-budget-implementation-review-report-third-quarter-fy-2017-18/) - A County Budget Implementation Review Report for the 3rd Quarter of FY 2017-18, released by the Office of the Controller of Budget in May 2018.
- [Report of the Task Force on the Review of the Legal, Policy and Institutional Framework for Fighting Corruption in Kenya (2015)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/report-of-the-task-force-on-the-review-of-the-legal-policy-and-institutional-framework-for-fighting-corruption-in-kenya/) - A report by the Task Force on the Review of the Legal, Policy and Institutional Framework for Fighting Corruption in Kenya presented to Pres. Uhuru Kenyatta in October 2015.
- [Press Statement - Taskforce on Building Bridges to Unity - July 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/press-statement-taskforce-on-building-bridges-to-unity-july-2018/) - A press statement released on 25th July 2018 by the Taskforce on Building Bridges to Unity.
- [JSC Statement on the State of the Judiciary - July 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/jsc-statement-on-the-state-of-the-judiciary-july-2018/) - A press statement on the Judiciary in light of drastic cuts in budgetary allocations.
- [Executive Order No.2 of 2018 - Procurement of Public Goods, Works and Services by Public Entities](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/executive-order-no-2-of-2018-procurement-of-public-goods-works-and-services-by-public-entities/) - An executive order issued and signed on 14th June 2018 by Pres. Uhuru Kenyatta on procurement by public entities.
- [Executive Order No.1 of 2018 - Reorganisation of the Government of the Republic of Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/executive-order-no-1-of-2018-reorganisation-of-the-government-of-the-republic-of-kenya/) - An executive order issued on 5th June 2018 by Pres. Uhuru Kenyatta on the reorganisation of government.
- [Budget Statement for Financial Year 2018/19](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/budget-statement-for-financial-year-2018-19/) - A statement delivered to the National Assembly in 2018 by Mr Henry K. Rotich, Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury, Republic of Kenya, when highlighting the budget policy and revenue raising measures for Fiscal Year 2018/19.
- [Gazette Vol. CXX-No. 68 (Appointments)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/gazette-vol-cxx-no-68-appointments/) - A Kenya Gazette notice dated 6th June 2018 regarding appointments.
- [Petition 51 of 2018 - Orders](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/petition-51-of-2018-orders/) - Orders in petition 51 of 2018 filed by Okiya Omtata on 6th June 2018 regarding the directive by Kenya Head of Public Service to send some public officials on compulsory leave.
- [Petition 51 of 2018 - Certificate of Urgency](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/petition-51-of-2018-certificate-of-urgency/) - Certificate of Urgency in petition 51 of 2018 filed by Okiya Omtata on 6th June 2018 regarding the directive by Kenya Head of Public Service to send some public officials on compulsory leave.
- [Petition 51 of 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/petition-51-of-2018/) - A petition filed by Okiya Omtata on 6th June 2018 regarding the directive by Kenya Head of Public Service to send some public officials on compulsory leave.
- [Head of Public Service directive on leave and vetting of public officers ](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/head-of-public-service-directive-on-leave-and-vetting-of-public-officers/) - A directive issued on 4th June 2018 by the Kenyan Head of Public Service regarding the fresh vetting of public officers.
- [Press Statement on Presidential Proclamation on Fresh Vetting of Public Officers](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/press-statement-on-presidential-proclamation-on-fresh-vetting-of-public-officers/) - A press statement dated 4th June 2018 issued by the Office of the Government Spokesperson on the Presidential Proclamation on Fresh Vetting of Public Officers
- [Kenya Gazette Vol. 61 Special (Appointments)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-gazette-vol-61-special-appointments/) - A gazette notice appointing board chairpersons
- [Issues for Determination in Petition 17 of 2017 (Khelef Khalifa v Chairperson of IEBC)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/issues-for-determination-in-petition-17-of-2017-khelef-khalifa-v-chairperson-of-iebc/) - Issues for Determination in Petition 17 of 2017 (Khelef Khalifa v Chairperson of IEBC)
- [Full Judgement in Presidential Petition 1 of 2017](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/full-judgement-in-presidential-petition-1-of-2017/) - Full Judgement in Presidential Petition 1 of 2017, dated and issued at Nairobi on the 20th day of September 2017.
- [2010 Constitution of Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/2010-constitution-of-kenya/) - Copy of the 2010 Constitution of Kenya promulgated on 27 August 2010
- [National Policing Conference 2018 - Inter Agency Taskforce Agenda and Plan](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/national-policing-conference-2018-inter-agency-taskforce-agenda-and-plan/) - Agenda and plan for the National Policing Conference 2018.
- [Ministry of Devolution & Planning and Council of Governors - County Public Participation Guidelines (2016)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/ministry-of-devolution-planning-and-council-of-governors-county-public-participation-guidelines-2016/) - A county public participation guidelines publication released in January 2016 by Ministry of Devolution & Planning and Council of Governors - County Public Participation Guidelines
- [Final Judgment in Petition 22 of 2012 (LAPSSET Case)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/final-judgment-in-petition-22-of-2012-lapsset-case/) - Judgement delivered on 1st May 2018 on Petition 22 of 2012 (LAPSSET Case)
- [2018 State of the Nation Address - Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/2018-state-of-the-nation-address/) - 2018 State of the nation address delivered on 2nd May 2018 by H.E Uhuru Kenyatta
- [Summary of Findings and Orders in High Court of Kenya Petition 22 of 2012 (LAPSSET Case)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/summary-of-findings-and-orders-in-high-court-of-kenya-petition-22-of-2012/) - Mohamed Ali Baadi and others (Petitioner) vs Hon. Attorney General and 7 others (Respondents).
- [List of 14 advisors to the Building Bridges Initiative](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/list-of-14-advisors-to-the-building-bridges-initiative/) - A list of 14 advisors appointed by Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga on the 29th April 2018 to assist in the work of the Building Bridges Initiative.
- [Kenya National Bureau of Statistics - Economic Survey 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-national-bureau-of-statistics-economic-survey-2018/) - A 2018 survey published by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics.
- [Draft Constitution of Kenya [Bomas Draft], 15 March 2004](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/draft-constitution-of-kenya-bomas-draft-15-march-2004/) - The draft constitution of Kenya published in 2014. (Bomas Draft)
- [The Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/the-statute-law-miscellaneous-amendments-bill-2018/) - Kenya Gazette Supplement dated 10th April 2018.
- [End of Assignment Report of Former IEBC Commissioner Roselyn Akombe](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/end-of-assignment-report-of-former-iebc-commissioner-roselyn-akombe/) - An end of assignment report dated 30th October 2017 by former IEBC Commissioner Roselyn Akombe
- [MUHURI Press Statement on State of the Nation](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/muhuri-press-statement-on-state-of-the-nation/) - A press statement dated 20th April 2018 by MUHURI on the state of the nation.
- [Press Statement by IEBC Chair on the Resignation of IEBC Commissioners](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/press-statement-by-iebc-chair-on-the-resignation-of-iebc-commissioners/) - Press statement dated 16th April 2018 by IEBC Chair on the resignation of IEBC commissioners.
- [Press Statement by Sen. James Orengo on Resignation of IEBC Commissioners](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/press-statement-by-sen-james-orengo-on-resignation-of-iebc-commissioners/) - Press statement dated 16th April 2018 by Sen. James Orengo on resignation of IEBC commissioners.
- [Joint Press Statement on Resignation of IEBC Commissioners](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/joint-press-statement-on-resignation-of-iebc-commissioners/) - A joint press statement issued on 16th April 2018 on the resignation of three IEBC Commissioners.
- [Constitutional Petition 548 of 2017 (Election Amendment Laws) Judgement](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/constitutional-petition-548-of-2017-election-amendment-laws-judgement/) - A judgement delivered on 6th April 2018 by Justice E C Mwita regarding Constitutional Petition 548 of 2017 (Election Amendment Laws).
- [Summary of the Kriegler Commission 2007 Election Report](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/summary-of-the-kriegler-commission-2007-election-report/) - A summary of the Kriegler Commission 2007 Election Report
- [Kenya Gazette Notice Vol.CXX No.42](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-gazette-notice-vol-cxx-no-42/) - A Kenya Gazette Notice Vol.CXX No.42 issued on 6th April 2018.
- [Miguna Search Warrant Application by CID Nairobi Area & Search Warrant](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/miguna-search-warrant-application-by-cid-nairobi-area-search-warrant/) - An application for a search warrant by CID Nairobi Area dated 1st February 2018 as well as search warrant issued.
- [KHRC Statement on Miguna Case and Disregard for Judicial Authority](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/khrc-statement-on-miguna-case-and-disregard-for-judicial-authority/) - A press statement dated 29th March 2018 on Miguna case and disregard for judicial authority
- [The War For The Law](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/the-war-for-the-law/) - A statement released on 29th March 2018 by the Orange Democratic Movement.
- [Miguna Miguna’s Statement on 28th March 2018 Deportation](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/miguna-migunas-statement-on-28th-march-2018-deportation/) - A press statement released on 29th March 2018 by Miguna Miguna on his deportation.
- [Kenya Health Forum 2018 Program Schedule](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-health-forum-2018-program-schedule/) - A schedule for the Kenya Health Forum held on 26th - 28th March 2018 at the Grand Laico Hotel, Nairobi Kenya.
- [WE THE PEOPLE Press Statement of 15th March 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/we-the-people-press-statement-of-15th-march-2018/) - A press statement issued on 15th March 2018 by WE THE PEOPLE, a collective of trade unions, civil society organisations, academia, media and wananchi at large.
- [Media brief by Wanjiru Gikonyo on Petition 94 of 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/media-brief-by-wanjiru-gikonyo-on-petition-94-of-2018/) - A media brief by Wanjiru Gikonyo on Petition 94 of 2018, challenging the constitutionality of the Nairobi Metropolitan Transport Authority (NAMATA).
- [Petition 94 of 2018 challenging the constitutionality of the Nairobi Metropolitan Transport Authority (NAMATA)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/petition-94-of-2018-challenging-the-constitutionality-of-the-nairobi-metropolitan-transport-authority-namata/) - A petition filed on 14th March 2018 by Wanjiru Gikonyo challenging the constitutionality of the Nairobi Metropolitan Transport Authority (NAMATA) that was created by Legal Notice No 18 of 2017.
- [Remarks by US Secretary of State during Kenya Visit](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/remarks-by-us-secretary-of-state-during-kenya-visit/) - Remarks dated 9th March 2018 by US Secretary of State during Kenya visit
- [Press release by MUHURI on state of the nation](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/press-release-by-muhuri-on-state-of-the-nation/) - Press release by MUHURI dated 12th March 2018 on the state of the nation.
- [Full judgement on the Excisable Goods Management System (EGMS) petition](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/full-judgement-on-the-excisable-goods-management-system-egms-petition/) - Full judgement dated 12th March 2018 on the Excisable Goods Management System (EGMS) related petition filed by Okiya Omtatah.
- [Statement of the People's Assembly Organizing Committee on the memorandum signed by H.E. Uhuru Kenyatta and H.E. Raila Odinga](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/statement-of-the-peoples-assembly-organizing-committee-on-the-memorandum-signed-by-h-e-uhuru-kenyatta-and-h-e-raila-odinga/) - A press statement released on 12th March 2018 by the People's Assembly Organizing Committee on the memorandum signed by H.E. Uhuru Kenyatta and H.E. Raila Odinga.
- [Jubilee Party Press Statement](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/jubilee-party-press-statement/) - Press statement dated 9th March issued by Jubilee Party on Raila Odinga and Uhuru Kenyatta meeting.
- [Raila and Uhuru Joint Press Statement: Building bridges to a new Kenyan nation](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/raila-and-uhuru-joint-press-statement-building-bridges-to-a-new-kenyan-nation/) - Press statement released on 9th March 2018 after Raila Odinga and Uhuru Kenyatta meeting.
- [The Global Gender Gap Report 2017](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/the-global-gender-gap-report-2017/) - The Global Gender Gap Report 2017
- [KNBS Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates for Feb 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/knbs-consumer-price-indices-and-inflation-rates-for-feb-2018/) - Kenya National Bureau of Standards Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates for Feb 2018 released on 28th February 2018.
- [2018 Global NGO Technology Report](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/2018-global-ngo-technology-report/) - The Global NGO Technology Report (techreport.ngo) is an annual research project that seeks to gain a better understanding of how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) use technology.
- [Petition for the removal of Hon. Justice David Maraga and others as members of the Judicial Service Commission](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/petition-for-the-removal-of-hon-justice-david-maraga-and-others-as-members-of-the-judicial-service-commission/) - A petition filed on 26th February 2018 by Adrian Kamotho Njenga for the removal of Hon. Justice David Maraga and others as members of the Judicial Service Commission.
- [Fazul Mahamed notice of resignation as CEO of NGOs Coordination Board of Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/fazul-mahamed-notice-of-resignation-as-ceo-of-ngos-coordination-board-of-kenya/) - A Notice of Resignation letter dated 19th February 2018 by Fazul Mahamed, CEO of NGOs Coordination Board of Kenya.
- [Court of Appeal Crim. App. 2 of 2018 – Affidavit of George Kinoti](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/court-of-appeal-crim-app-2-of-2018-affidavit-of-george-kinoti/) - Affidavit of George Kinoti in Court of Appeal Crim. App. 2 of 2018 dated 16th February 2018.
- [Court of Appeal Crim. App. 2 of 2018 – Affidavit of Joseph K. Boinnet](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/court-of-appeal-crim-app-2-of-2018-affidavit-of-joseph-k-boinnet/) - Affidavit of Joseph K. Boinnet in Court of Appeal Crim. App. 2 of 2018 dated 16th February 2018.
- [Court of Appeal Crim. App. 2 of 2018 - Notice of Motion](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/court-of-appeal-crim-app-2-of-2018-notice-of-motion/) - Notice of Motion for Court of Appeal Criminal Application 2 of 2018 dated 16th February 2018.
- [Press Release by Director of Immigration Services on suspended passports](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/press-release-by-director-of-immigration-services-on-suspended-passports/) - A press release dated 20th February 2018 by Director of Immigration Service, Maj Gen (Rtd), Dr. Gordon Kilahangwa regarding suspended passports of Mr. Orengo and Mr. Wanjigi.
- [High Court Judgement on Petition No. 388 of 2016 (Public Audit Act, 2015)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/high-court-judgement-on-petition-no-388-of-2016-public-audit-act-2015/) - A High Court judgement on Petition 388 of 2018 dated 16th February 2018. The petition regarding the Public Audit Act 2015 was filed by Transparency International Kenya with the AG as respondent.
- [High Court Ruling on Misc Criminal Application 57 of 2018 (Miguna vs DPP and 2 others)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/high-court-ruling-on-misc-criminal-application-57-of-2018-miguna-vs-dpp-and-2-others/) - A High Court ruling dated 15th February 2018 on Misc Criminal Application 57 of 2018 (Miguna vs DPP, DCI and IGP)
- [Ministry of Interior Press Statement on Court Ruling regarding Miguna Miguna Deportation](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/ministry-of-interior-press-statement-on-court-ruling-regarding-miguna-miguna-deportation/) - A press statement issued on 15th February 2018 by P.S Ministry of Interior Dr. Eng Karanja Kibicho on the court ruling regarding Miguna Miguna's deportation.
- [Open Letter to Chief Justice Maraga from Jubilee Party Secretary General](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/open-letter-to-chief-justice-maraga-from-jubilee-party-secretary-general/) - Open letter dated 9th February 2018 Jubilee Party Secretary-General to Chief Justice Maraga.
- [Transfer of Judges of the High Court of Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/transfer-of-judges-of-the-high-court-of-kenya/) - A letter from the Principal Judge, High Court of Kenya dated 13th February 2018 notifying all judges of the High Court on transfers in the Judiciary.
- [Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions Letter to Registrar of the High Court](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/office-of-the-director-of-public-prosecutions-letter-to-registrar-of-the-high-court/) - A letter dated 13th February 2018 from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to the Registrar of the High Court regarding Misc. Criminal Application 57 of 2018.
- [Stay application for Miguna Miguna petition](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/stay-application-for-miguna-miguna-petition/) - Stay application for a petition filed by Miguna Miguna in the matter of violation of the right to citizenship and all other attendant rights and denial of the right to fair administrative action.
- [Supporting affidavit for Miguna Miguna petition](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/supporting-affidavit-for-miguna-miguna-petition/) - An affidavit by Nelson Havi in support of a petition filed by Miguna Miguna.
- [Miguna Miguna Petition](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/miguna-miguna-petition/) - A petition filed by Miguna Miguna in the matter of violation of the right to citizenship and all other attendant rights and denial of the right to fair administrative action.
- [Affidavit of DCI George Kinoti in Misc. Crim. App. No. 57 of 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/affidavit-of-dci-george-kinoti-in-misc-crim-app-no-57-of-2018/) - Affidavit of DCI George Kinoti in Misc. Crim. App. No. 57 of 2018 dated 9th February 2018.
- [Affidavit of IGP Joseph Boinnet in Misc. Crim. App. No. 57 of 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/affidavit-of-igp-joseph-boinnet-in-misc-crim-app-no-57-of-2018/) - Affidavit of IGP Joseph Boinnet in Misc. Crim. App. No. 57 of 2018, dated 9th February 2018.
- [Affidavit of Maj Gen (Rtd) Dr. Gordon Kihalangwa in Misc. Crim. App. No. 57 of 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/affidavit-of-maj-gen-rtd-dr-gordon-kihalangwa-in-misc-crim-app-no-57-of-2018/) - Affidavit of Maj Gen (Rtd) Dr. Gordon Kihalangwa, Director of Immigration in Misc. Crim. App. No. 57 of 2018 dated 9th February 2018.
- [ICJ Kenya Press statement on disregard of court orders by public officials](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/icj-kenya-press-statement-on-disregard-of-court-orders-by-public-officials/) - ICJ Kenya Press statement dated 7th February 2018 on disregard of court orders by public officials.
- [Statement by Chief Justice Maraga on failure to comply with court orders](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/statement-by-chief-justice-maraga-on-failure-to-comply-with-court-orders/) - Statement by Chief Justice Maraga issued on 7th February 2018 on failure to comply with court orders.
- [Declaration by CS Matiangi authorizing detention and deportation of Miguna Miguna to Canada](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/declaration-by-cs-matiangi-authorizing-detention-and-deportation-of-miguna-miguna-to-canada/) - Declaration dated 6th February 2018 by CS Matiangi authorizing detention and deportation of Miguna Miguna to Canada.
- [Commission on Administrative Justice Press Release on the Growing Trend of Disobeying Court Orders](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/commission-on-administrative-justice-press-release-on-the-growing-trend-of-disobeying-court-orders/) - The Commission on Administrative Justice (Office of Ombudsman) press release.
- [High Court Orders for Misc. Criminal Application 57 of 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/high-court-orders-for-misc-criminal-application-57-of-2018/) - High Court Orders issued regarding Miguna Miguna's arrest and detention.
- [Court Orders on Miguna Miguna Arrest](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/court-orders-on-miguna-miguna-arrest/) - A High Court Order issued on 2nd February 2018 on Miguna Miguna arrest.
- [Kenya Gazette Vol. CXX No.17. Notice on Appointment of Selection Panel](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-gazette-vol-cxx-no-17-notice-on-appointment-of-selection-panel/) - Kenya Gazette Vol. CXX No.17 published on 2nd February 2018 regarding the appointment of Selection Panel for selecting nominees for appointment of DPP.
- [Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops Press Statement](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-conference-of-catholic-bishops-press-statement/) - A press statement by KCCB issued on 2nd February 2018 calling for respect of fundamental rights and freedoms in Kenya.
- [High Court Orders on Petition 38 of 2018 granting restoration of TV transmissions](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/high-court-orders-on-petition-38-of-2018-granting-restoration-of-tv-transmissions/) - High Court Order dated 1st February 2018 directing restoration of television transmissions.
- [TJ Kajwang Charge Sheet](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/tj-kajwang-charge-sheet/) - [pdf-embedder url="https://www.theelephant.info/uploads/2018/02/TJ-Kajwang-Charge-Sheet.pdf" title="TJ Kajwang Charge Sheet"]
- [Statement of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission of the situation in Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/statement-of-the-chairperson-of-the-african-union-commission-of-the-situation-in-kenya/) - Statement dated 1st February 2018 of the Chairperson of the AU Commission of the situation in Kenya
- [KNCHR Press Statement on Reported Switch Off of Broadcast Airwaves](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/knchr-press-statement-on-reported-switch-off-of-broadcast-airwaves/) - KNCHR press statement dated 30th January 2018 on reported switch off of broadcast airwaves.
- [Government of Kenya Statement on Subversive Activities by NASA](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/government-of-kenya-statement-on-subversive-activities-by-nasa/) - A statement issued on 31st January 2018 by the Government of Kenya on the subversive activities of NASA Coalition.
- [Kenya Gazette Vol. CXX No. 15 - Declaration of National Resistance Movement as an organised criminal group](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-gazette-vol-cxx-no-15-declaration-of-national-resistance-movement-as-an-organised-criminal-group/) - Kenya Gazette Notice issued on 30th January 2018 declaring the National Resistance Movement as an organised criminal group.
- [NASA Coalition – 8th August Election Results Presentation](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/nasa-coalition-8th-august-election-results-presentation/) - A presentation dated 26th January 2018 by the NASA Coalition on the results of the 8th August 2017 General Election in Kenya.
- [NASA Coalition Press Statement - Dialogue or No Dialogue](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/nasa-coalition-press-statement-dialogue-or-no-dialogue/) - Press statement issued on 18th January 2018 by the NASA Coalition on the People's Assembly and National Dialogue
- [Election Petition No. 14 of 2017 Judgement](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/election-petition-no-14-of-2017-judgement/) - High Court of Kenya judgement dated 12th January 2017 regarding Election Petition No. 14 of 2017 in the matter of the gubernatorial elections for Wajir County.
- [Resignation Letter of Nairobi County Deputy Governor Polycarp Igathe](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/resignation-letter-of-nairobi-county-deputy-governor-polycarp-igathe/) - A resignation letter of Nairobi County Deputy Governor Polycarp Igathe dated 12th January 2017.
- [Press release from The Embassy of the Republic of Kenya in Brussels/Mission to the EU](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/press-release-from-the-embassy-of-the-republic-of-kenya-in-brusselsmission-to-the-eu/) - Press release dated 10th January 2017 from the Embassy of the Republic of Kenya in Brussels/Mission to the EU regarding the EU EOM Kenya Election Report 2017.
- [IMLU Extra Judicial Executions Report 2017](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/imlu-extra-judicial-executions-report-2017/) - A report by the Independent Medico Legal Unit (IMLU) on extra judicial executions in Kenya from January to December 2017.
- [Kenya Gazette Supplement No.188 - Public Health (Control of Shisha Smoking) Rules, 2017](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-gazette-supplement-no-188-public-health-control-of-shisha-smoking-rules-2017/) - Kenya Gazette Supplement No.188 dated 28th December 2017 banning Shisha smoking in Kenya.
- [Misc. Application No. 598 of 2017 - AfriCOG vs CS Min. of Interior & Co-ordination and 7 Others](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/misc-application-no-598-of-2017-africog-vs-cs-min-of-interior-co-ordination-and-7-others/) - Misc. Application No. 598 of 2017 - AfriCOG vs CS Min. of Interior & Co-ordination and 7 Others
- [Joint Statement on Road Safety during Festive Season 2017](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/joint-statement-on-road-safety-during-festive-season-2017/) - A joint press statement released on 19th December by Transport & Infrastructure CS James Macharia and Interior CS Fred Matiangi, on road safety.
- [Joint Press Statement by Kenya Police, NTSA and KeNHA on Road Safety during this Festive Season](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/joint-press-statement-by-kenya-police-ntsa-and-kenha-on-road-safety-during-this-festive-season/) - Joint Press Statement dated 14th December 2017 by Kenya Police, NTSA and KeNHA on Road Safety during this Festive Season.
- [Kenya Gazette Vol. CXIX - No. 183. Award of orders, decorations and medals on Jamhuri Day 2017](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-gazette-vol-cxix-no-183-award-of-orders-decorations-and-medals-on-jamhuri-day-2017/) - Kenya Gazette notice issued on 12th December 2017 listing award recipients of orders, decorations and medals on Jamhuri Day 2017.
- [Full Judgement in Petition 2 & 4 of 2017 (Consolidated)](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/full-judgement-in-petition-2-4-of-2017-consolidated/) - Full Judgement in Petition 2 & 4 of 2017 (Consolidated), dated and delivered at Nairobi on the 11th day of December, 2017.
- [NASA Media Statement - Roadmap of the People's Assembly](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/nasa-media-statement-roadmap-of-the-peoples-assembly/) - A NASA Coalition media statement dated 8th December on the roadmap for the People's Assembly.
- [Court Orders Against Renewal of Fazul Mohamed's Tenure as Executive Director of the NGO Co-ordination Board of Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/court-orders-against-renewal-of-fazul-mohameds-tenure-as-executive-director-of-the-ngo-co-ordination-board-of-kenya/) - Court Orders issued on 6th December 2017 against renewal of Fazul Mohamed's tenure as Executive Director of the NGO Co-ordination Board of Kenya.
- [National Security Strategy of the United States of America 2017](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/national-security-strategy-of-the-united-states-of-america-2017/) - 2017 US National Security Strategy
- [Gazette notice on date and venue of swearing-in ceremony of the president-elect and public holiday](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/gazette-notice-on-date-and-venue-of-swearing-in-ceremony-of-the-president-elect-and-public-holiday/) - Kenya Gazette notice dated 23rd November 2017.
- [Determination of Presidential Petitions 2 & 4 of 2017 without reasons](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/determination-of-presidential-petitions-2-4-of-2017/) - Determination of Petitions 2 & 4 of 2017 dated 20th November 2017.
- [IEBC Press Statement Following Supreme Court Ruling](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/iebc-press-statement-following-supreme-court-ruling/) - IEBC Press Statement dated 20th November 2017, following Supreme Court ruling.
- [KEPSA Press Statement: Let Business Do What it Does Best - Business](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kepsa-press-statement-let-business-do-what-it-does-best-business/) - KEPSA Press release dated 8th November
- [Presidential Election Petition 4 of 2017 – Affidavit of Njonjo Mue](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/presidential-election-petition-4-of-2017-affidavit-of-njonjo-mue/) - Affidavit by Njonjo Mue for Presidential Petition 4 of 2017
- [Presidential Election Petition 4 of 2017](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/presidential-election-petition-4-of-2017/) - Presidential Petition filed by Njonjo Mue and Khelef Khalifa challenging the 26th October Fresh Presidential Elections
- [NGOs Coordination Board Letter to We The People and Kura Yangu Sauti Yangu](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/ngos-coordination-board-letter-to-we-the-people-and-kura-yangu-sauti-yangu/) - Letter dated 6th November 2017 from the NGO's Co-ordination Board to We The People and Kura Yangu Sauti Yangu.
- [Hon. John Harun Mwau Presidential Election Petition](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/hon-john-harun-mwau-presidential-election-petition/) - Presidential Election Petition filed by John Harun Mwau
- [National Police Service Press Statement](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/national-police-service-press-statement/) - Press Statement from the National Police Service dated 2nd November 2017 relating to IMLU report on election-related deaths.
- [The Election Laws (Amendment) Act, 2017](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/the-election-laws-amendment-act-2017/) - Kenya Gazette Supplement No. 162 (Acts No. 34) - The Election Laws (Amendment) Act, 2017
- [NASA Media Release: A Call to People’s Assembly and Operations of NRM](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/nasa-media-release-a-call-to-peoples-assembly-and-operations-of-nrm/) - NASA Coalition media release dated 2nd November 2017 relating to the People's Assembly and operations of the National Resistance Movement.
- [Kura Yangu Sauti Yangu Press Statement](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kura-yangu-sauti-yangu-press-statement/) - Kura Yangu Sauti Yangu press statement dated 1st November 2017.
- [We-the-People Press Statement](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/we-the-people-press-statement/) - We-the-People press statement dated 31st October 2017.
- [Supreme Court Directions on Petition 18 of 2017](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/supreme-court-directions-on-petition-18-of-2017/) - Supreme Court directions on Petition 18 of 2017
- [NASA Press Statement – Next Steps](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/nasa-press-statement-next-steps/) - NASA Coalition press statement dated 31st October 2017 on fresh presidential elections.
- [Safaricom Press Statement – Bob Colomore medical leave](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/safaricom-press-statement-bob-colomore-medical-leave/) - Safaricom Ltd company statement dated 30th October 2017 regarding CEO's medical leave.
- [Kura Yangu Sauti Yangu (KYSY) Statement Number 4: Turnout in the October 2017 Election](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kura-yangu-sauti-yangu-kysy-statement-number-4-turnout-in-the-october-2017-election/) - Kura Yangu Sauti Yangu press statement dated 30th October 2017.
- [26th October Repeat Polls: Our Country Needs Urgent Healing Beyond This Election](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/26th-october-repeat-polls-our-country-needs-urgent-healing-beyond-this-election/) - Thirdway Alliance press release on 30th October 2017
- [Kura Yangu Sauti Yangu Press Statement](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kura-yangu-sauti-yangu-press-statement-2/) - Kura Yangu Sauti Yangu press statement dated 27th October 2017.
- [Alleged IEBC Press Statement on Memo from Chair to CEO](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/alleged-iebc-press-statement-on-memo-from-chair-to-ceo/) - Leaked IEBC Press Statement dated on Memo from Chair to CEO
- [Memo from IEBC Chair to CEO of 05-09-17 on Supreme Court Election Petition No. 1 of 2017](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/memo-from-iebc-chair-to-ceo-of-05-09-17-on-supreme-court-election-petition-no-1-of-2017/) - Leaked memo dated 5th September 2017, from IEBC Chair to CEO on Supreme Court Election Petition No. 1 of 2017
- [IEBC Response to Jubilee Letter on Project Team](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/iebc-response-to-jubilee-letter-on-project-team/) - IEBC letter dated 6th September 2017 to Jubilee Party on fresh election project team.
- [IEBC Press Statement on Appointment of Staff](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/iebc-press-statement-on-appointment-of-staff/) - IEBC Press Statement dated 5th September 2017 on appointment of staff.
- [IEBC Press Statement on Fresh Presidential Election](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/iebc-press-statement-on-fresh-presidential-election/) - IEBC Press Statement dated 4th September 2017 on Fresh Presidential Election.
- [Gazette Notice on by-election for Kitutu Chache South Constituency](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/gazette-notice-on-by-election-for-kitutu-chache-south-constituency/) - Gazette notice dated 1st September on by-election for Kitutu Chache South Constituency.
- [Certificate of Electronic Records – Duncan Anunda](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/certificate-of-electronic-records-duncan-anunda/) - Certificate of Electronic Records
- [IEBC – Response to Presidential Election Petition 1 of 2017](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/iebc-response-to-presidential-election-petition-1-of-2017/) - IEBC Response to Petition 1 of 2017 dated 24th August 2017.
- [IEBC – Notice of Removal of All Campaign Materials to All Candidates, Political Parties, Agents and Members Who Support Political Parties](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/iebc-notice-of-removal-of-all-campaign-materials-to-all-candidates-political-parties-agents-and-members-who-support-political-parties/) - An IEBC notice dated 21st August 2017 asking candidates and political parties to remove all campaign posters
- [IEBC’s Summary of the 2013 Election](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/iebcs-summary-of-the-2013-election/) - An IEBC summary of the 2013 Kenya Election Results
- [Affidavit by Dr. Nyangasi Oduwo in Support of Presidential Election Petition Dated 18 August, 2017](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/affidavit-by-dr-nyangasi-oduwo-in-support-of-presidential-election-petition-dated-18-august-2017/) - Affidavit by Dr. Nyangasi Oduwo in support of presidential election petition Dated 18 August, 2017
- [Supporting Affidavit of Rt. Hon. Raila A. Odinga and H.E Stephen K. Musyoka](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/supporting-affidavit-of-rt-hon-raila-a-odinga-and-h-e-stephen-k-musyoka/) - Election petition supporting affidavit of Rt. Hon. Raila A. Odinga and H.E Stephen K. Musyoka
- [IEBC Letter of Response to NASA](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/iebc-letter-of-response-to-nasa/) - Letter dated 9th August 2017 from IEBC to the NASA Coalition
- [Kenya Gazette Vol. CXIX-No.70. Award of orders, decorations and medals on 30th May 2017](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-gazette-vol-cxix-no-70-award-of-orders-decorations-and-medals-on-30th-may-2017/) - Kenya Gazette notice issued on 30th May 2017 listing award recipients of orders, decorations and medals.
- [2017 State of the Nation Address - Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/2017-state-of-the-nation-address-kenya/) - A state of the nation address delivered on 15th March 2017 by H.E Uhuru Kenyatta
- [Kenya Gazette Vol. CXIX-No.45. Award of orders, decorations and medals on 11th April 2017](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-gazette-vol-cxix-no-45-award-of-orders-decorations-and-medals-on-11th-april-2017/) - Kenya Gazette notice issued on 11th April 2017 listing award recipients of orders, decorations and medals.
- [Kenya: Budget Statement for Financial Year 2017/18](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-budget-statement-for-financial-year-2017-18/) - A statement delivered to the National Assembly on 30th March, 2017 by Mr Henry K. Rotich, Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury, Republic of Kenya, when highlighting the budget policy and revenue raising measures for Fiscal Year 2017/18.
- [Katiba Institute Handbook on Access to Information Act, 2016](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/katiba-institute-handbook-on-access-to-information-act-2016/) - Katiba Institute Handbook on Access to Information Act, 2016
- [IMLU Extra Judicial Executions Report 2016](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/imlu-extra-judicial-executions-report-2016/) - A report by the Independent Medico Legal Unit (IMLU) on extra judicial executions in Kenya in 2016.
- [Kenya Gazette Vol.CXVIII-No.162. Award of orders, decorations and medals on 22nd December 2016](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-gazette-vol-cxviii-no-162-award-of-orders-decorations-and-medals-on-22nd-december-2016/) - Kenya Gazette notice issued on 22nd December 2016 listing award recipients of orders, decorations and medals.
- [2016 State of the Nation Address - Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/2016-state-of-the-nation-address-kenya/) - A state of the nation address delivered on 31st March 2016 by H.E Uhuru Kenyatta
- [Executive Order No.1 of 2016 - Organization of the Government of Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/executive-order-no-1-of-2016-organization-of-the-government-of-kenya/) - An executive order issued and signed in May 2016 by Pres. Uhuru Kenyatta on the organization of Government.
- [Report of the Auditor-General on the Financial Statements for National Government for the Year 2015/2016](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/report-of-the-auditor-general-on-the-financial-statements-for-national-government-for-the-year-2015-2016/) - A Report of the Auditor-General on the Financial Statements for National Government for the Year 2015/2016.
- [Kenya Gazette Vol.CXVIII-No.33. Award of orders, decorations and medals on 31st March 2016](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-gazette-vol-cxviii-no-33-award-of-orders-decorations-and-medals-on-31st-march-2016/) - Kenya Gazette Notice issued on 4th April 2016 listing award recipients of orders, decorations and medals on 31st March, 2016.
- [Betting, Lotteries and Gaming Act](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/betting-lotteries-and-gaming-act/) - Revised Betting, Lotteries and Gambling Act of 2016
- [First Draft Alcohol and Drug Abuse Policy for KNBS Employees](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/first-draft-alcohol-and-drug-abuse-policy-for-knbs-employees/) - [pdf-embedder url="https://www.theelephant.info/uploads/2018/01/policy_on_alcohol_and_drug_abuse.pdf"]
- [Kenya Gazette VoI.CXVII-No.138. Award of orders, decorations and medals on Jamhuri Day 2015](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-gazette-voi-cxvii-no-138-award-of-orders-decorations-and-medals-on-jamhuri-day-2015/) - Kenya Gazette notice issued on 12th December 2015 listing award recipients of orders, decorations and medals on Jamhuri Day 2015.
- [Kenya Gazette VoI. CXVII-No.138. Award of orders, decorations and medals on 12th December 2015](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-gazette-voi-cxvii-no-138-award-of-orders-decorations-and-medals-on-12th-december-2015/) - Kenya Gazette Notice issued on 12th December 2015 listing award recipients of orders, decorations and medals on Jamhuri Day 2015.
- [2015 - State of the Nation Address - Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/2015-state-of-the-nation-address-kenya/) - A state of the nation address delivered on 26th March 2015 by H.E Uhuru Kenyatta
- [Executive Order No.6 of 2015 - Ethics and Integrity in Public Service](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/executive-order-no-6-of-2015-ethics-and-integrity-in-public-service/) - An executive order issued and signed in March 2015 on ethics and integrity in public service.
- [Betting, Lottery and Gaming Amendment Bill 2015](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/betting-lottery-and-gaming-amendment-bill-2015/) - Betting, Lottery and Gaming Amendment Bill of 2015
- [Executive Order No.2 of 2013 - Organization of the Government of Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/executive-order-no-2-of-2013-organization-of-the-government-of-kenya/) - An executive order issued and signed in May 2013 by Pres. Uhuru Kenyatta on the organization of Government.
- [Executive Order No.1 of 2013 - Structure of the National Executive](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/executive-order-no-1-of-2013-structure-of-the-national-executive/) - An executive order issued in April 2013 by Pres. Uhuru Kenyatta on the structure of the National Executive.
- [Kenya Gazette Vol. CXV-No. 56. Award of orders, decorations and medals on 28th March 2013](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-gazette-vol-cxv-no-56-award-of-orders-decorations-and-medals-on-28th-march-2013/) - Kenya Gazette notice issued on 28th March 2013 listing award recipients of orders, decorations and medals.
- [Kenya Gazette Vol. CXV - No. 120. Award of orders, decorations and medals on Jamhuri Day 2011](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-gazette-vol-cxv-no-120-award-of-orders-decorations-and-medals-on-jamhuri-day-2011/) - Kenya Gazette notice issued on 9th December 2011 listing award recipients of orders, decorations and medals on Jamhuri Day 2011.
- [Kenya Gazette Vol. CXII - No.129. Award of orders, decorations and medals on Jamhuri Day 2010](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-gazette-vol-cxii-no-129-award-of-orders-decorations-and-medals-on-jamhuri-day-2010/) - Kenya Gazette notice issued on 10th December 2010 listing award recipients of orders, decorations and medals on Jamhuri Day 2010.
- [Report of the Parliamentary Select Committee on the Review Of The Constitution on the Reviewed Harmonized Draft Constitution](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/report-of-the-parliamentary-select-committee-on-the-review-of-the-constitution-on-the-reviewed-harmonized-draft-constitution/) - Comprising the Recommendations agreed upon as a result of the deliberations of the Parliamentary Select Committee on the Review of the Constitution in accordance with Section 32(1)(C) of the Constitution of Kenya Review Act, 2008 and Presented to the Committee of Experts Pursuant to Section 33(1) of the Constitution of Kenya Review Act, 2008 on 29th January, 2010
- [Record of proceedings taken before the Parliamentary Select Committee on Constitution Review held on 27th January 2010](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/record-of-proceedings-taken-before-the-parliamentary-select-committee-on-constitution-review-held-on-27th-january-2010/) - Record of proceedings taken before the Parliamentary Select Committee on Constitution Review held on 27th January 2010 at the Great Rift Valley Lodge, Naivasha.
- [Record of Proceedings taken before the Parliamentary Select Committee on Constitution Review held on 26th January, 2010](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/record-of-proceedings-taken-before-the-parliamentary-select-committee-on-constitution-review-held-on-26th-january-2010/) - Record of proceedings taken before the Parliamentary Select Committee on Constitution Review held on Tuesday, 26th January, 2010 at the Great Rift Valley Lodge, Naivasha
- [Record of meeting of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Constitutional Review held on Monday, 18th January, 2010](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/record-of-meeting-of-the-parliamentary-select-committee-on-constitutional-review-held-on-monday-18th-january-2010/) - Record of meeting of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Constitutional Review held on Monday, 18th January, 2010 at the Great Rift Valley Lodge, Naivasha
- [Kenya Gazette Vol. CX - No. 97. Award of orders, decorations and medals on Jamhuri Day 2008](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-gazette-vol-cx-no-97-award-of-orders-decorations-and-medals-on-jamhuri-day-2008/) - Kenya Gazette notice issued on 10th December 2008 listing award recipients of orders, decorations and medals on Jamhuri Day 2008.
- [Kenya Gazette Vol. CIX-No.93. Award of orders, decorations and medals on Jamhuri Day 2007](https://www.theelephant.info/documents/kenya-gazette-vol-cix-no-93-award-of-orders-decorations-and-medals-on-jamhuri-day-2007/) - Kenya Gazette notice issued on 11th December 2007 listing award recipients of orders, decorations and medals on Jamhuri Day 2007.

## Series

- [Raila Odinga: The Soul of the Nation](https://www.theelephant.info/series/raila-odinga-the-soul-of-the-nation/) - In the quiet left by Baba's passing, the country is left reflecting on what he meant, and what this moment means for the country. Raila Odinga exited the stage as he lived: bold, defiant, and mysterious, leaving the nation suspended between gratitude for his sacrifices and bewilderment over the unfinished chapters he left behind.
- [Remembering Rasna Warah](https://www.theelephant.info/series/remembering-rasna-warah/) - We mourn the loss of Rasna Warah, a fearless writer, truth-seeker, and unwavering voice for justice. Her contributions to The Elephant and her broader body of work challenged injustice, exposed impunity, and inspired generations. Rasna's words were a beacon of courage, her dedication to truth unyielding. Through her incisive writing and moral clarity, she transformed complex issues into calls for action and accountability. Rest in power, Rasna Warah. Your voice will echo in our hearts, and your legacy of speaking truth to power will endure.
- [Gen Z and the Emerging African Reality](https://www.theelephant.info/series/gen-z-and-the-emerging-african-reality/) - Africa's Gen-Z generation emerges amidst uncertainty, turmoil, and cynicism, yet their narrative is defined by resilience and promise. Navigating challenges with digital prowess, they wield technology as a tool for change. In this era of political, social, and economic upheaval, their spirit embodies the hope that blossoms within adversity, presenting a canvas of unparalleled opportunity.
- [Migrant Battalion](https://www.theelephant.info/series/migrant-battalion/) - Late last year, the world was alerted to the disturbing news that Russia was recruiting hundreds of young African women, aged 18–22, to manufacture drones in a military-industrial compound 1,000 km east of Moscow, called the Alabuga Special Economic Zone. The reports also stated that the recruits—from at least fifteen African countries—were promised good salaries and skills training, but once there, they were often trapped, facing tax deductions, dangerous working conditions, strict surveillance, and difficulties returning home.
- [Journaling Kenya's Gen Z Revolution](https://www.theelephant.info/series/journaling-kenyas-gen-z-revolution/) - Amidst Kenya's #RejectFinanceBill protests, as the echoes of dissent reverberate through the streets, a generation rises to challenge the pillars of a colonial legacy that still looms large. Dominated by the resilient voices of young Kenyans from Gen Z, these protests transcend mere demonstrations on the Finance Bill; they embody a bold reimagining of power, justice, and identity, transforming protests into a potent mechanism for change in African politics.
- [Dear Millennials](https://www.theelephant.info/series/dear-millennials/)
- [Intergenerational Solidarity](https://www.theelephant.info/series/intergenerational-solidarity/) - Kenya’s history is laden with waves of counter-narratives that seek to provide a nuanced understanding of the progress and the complexities involved in nation-building. In this sense, the 2024 Gen Z movement acted as an entry into the third liberation, as a build-up from the first and the second liberation. The series explores the ideas, perspectives, and opinions of Kenya’s most distinguished elders—the women and men who have fearlessly championed human rights, constitutional democracy, and the rule of law during the first and second liberation. Through fireside chats, it bridges generations by celebrating the invaluable contributions of those who have continually shaped Kenya’s human rights and democratic movements. The narratives lean on their experiences as a treasure trove of lessons that will help guide and empower Kenya’s next generation of advocates in navigating complex governance challenges. In collaboration with Civic Voice, we delve into the path of memory and recollection by engaging Kenyan elders on human rights and democratic inspiration to share invaluable experiences, challenges, and wisdom. We aim to inspire and guide the Gen Zs who are currently navigating similar struggles within the current governance system. We aim not to document history, but to operationalise memory as a catalyst for unity.
- [Death By Police?](https://www.theelephant.info/series/death-by-police/) - The Kenya Kwanza regime ascended to power on the promise of ending extrajudicial killings, police abductions, and state-sanctioned torture. However, a review of the regime’s first 1,000 days in office reveals a police force that has become increasingly venal, treacherous, and violent towards mwananchi.
- [Collective Futures: Reflecting on Afro-Asian Experiences](https://www.theelephant.info/series/collective-futures-reflecting-on-afro-asian-experiences/) - The Sino-African relationship has a rich history that dates back centuries, marked by the voyages of Admiral Zheng He in the early 15th century. Between 1405 and 1433, Admiral Zheng commanded a fleet of 317 ships with 28,000 crew members to establish trade routes and enhance diplomatic relationships with the East African coast. Admiral Zheng made significant port calls in Mombasa and Malindi where he established early trade links, exchanged gifts, and shared knowledge and culture, between China and the East African coast. This series challenges the narrative that Sino-African relationships should be viewed primarily through a Western perspective often overlooking the agency and role of African actors throughout history. It aims to introduce a contemporary nuanced and multidimensional understanding of these relationships as well as exploring the dynamics between African and Chinese people in light of the ascendancy of Pax-Sinica in a multi-polar world. In collaboration with CASIN (China Africa Shanghai International Network), we delve into human-centric storytelling through a blend of fiction and non-fiction to emphasise the importance of the lived experiences of individuals and communities in world-making. We situate our experiences, while reflecting on our roles and contributions in this emerging multi polar world.
- [Micere Githae Mugo: I Am Because We Are](https://www.theelephant.info/series/micere-githae-mugo-i-am-because-we-are/) - Micere Githae Mugo: Mother, Daughter, Sister, Friend Public intellectual, Poet, Teacher, Mentor Social Justice Activist, Liberation Warrior Kenyan, African, Pan African, Human... An invitation to celebration through thoughtful reflection on her life, work, and legacy.
- [Climate Justice](https://www.theelephant.info/series/climate-justice/) - Kenya’s climate justice explores the broad scope of ecological balance, climate crisis and the geographical, social, racial and land issues we face. Achieving climate justice starts with acknowledging and working alongside people in the counties and the region who are unfairly and disproportionally impacted by floods, drought, changing weather patterns and overall climate crisis. Climate justice recognizes the disproportionate impacts of climate change on low-income households, and minorities, the marginalized or otherwise vulnerable populations, people and places least responsible for the problem. It means putting equity and human rights at the core of climate decision-making and actionable policies on climate change.
- [Unhistories - Kenya’s Mau Mau](https://www.theelephant.info/series/unhistories-kenyas-mau-mau/) - This ongoing documentary project titled Unhistories departs from the Hanslope Disclosure in which British colonial archives were destroyed, hidden and manipulated. Known as Operation Legacy in the 1950s, the British colonial administration in Kenya destroyed much of the documentation relating to the Emergency prior to their departure in 1963. Unhistories is a collaboration with Mau Mau veterans, Kenyans who survived the colonial violence, historians, artists, activists, writers, archives, universities and museums to fill in the missing gaps of the archives.
- [Katiba Yetu @14: We The People Shall!](https://www.theelephant.info/series/katiba-yetu-14-we-the-people-shall/) - August is the constitutional month in Kenya emblemized by the August 2010 referendum in which Kenyans went to the polls to pass the draft. An overwhelming majority voted in favour at 67% success rate. Subsequently the draft was promulgated on the 27th of August 2010 to the adulation and promise of hope for Kenyans. It is now 14 years later and the constitution has been implemented to a significant degree but certain parts, such as the 2/3 gender rule, remain non-adhered to. In this August as a Constitution editorial month, we return to every year to celebrate, recall, examine, and amplify many facets of the constitutional culture, principles, rules, and processes.
- [Route To Food](https://www.theelephant.info/series/route-to-food/) - The Food Series is a collaboration between The Elephant and the Route To Food Initiative (RTFI), exploring the complexity of the food question in Kenya and Africa. The series brings together a combination of voices and views, addressing the multiplicity of concerns behind the notion of food insecurity and the threat it poses as a violation of a basic human right for millions of citizens in Africa.
- [The Moi Legacy](https://www.theelephant.info/series/the-moi-legacy/) - Much has been written about Daniel Arap Moi, and his death has uncorked a litany of previously hidden details and insights into the Shakespearian drama he presided over while in office. The question that arises then is how do we evaluate the legacy of Moi’s agency during his time in office? How do we speak
- [Binyavanga Wainaina](https://www.theelephant.info/series/binyavanga-wainaina/)
- [Luo Lives Matter](https://www.theelephant.info/series/luo-lives-matter/)
- [Remembering Winnie Madikizela-Mandela](https://www.theelephant.info/series/remembering-winnie-madikizela-mandela/)
- [The 2022 Kenya Election](https://www.theelephant.info/series/the-2022-kenya-election/) - This edition will explore and highlight the events, the actors, the possibilities, and the outcomes of the 2022 elections.
- [Brazen](https://www.theelephant.info/series/brazen/) - This ‘Brazen: Reflections’ series was born out of a desire to continue the conversations springing out of the ‘Too Early For Birds: Brazen’ theatre performance in Nairobi in July 2018.
- [African Migration](https://www.theelephant.info/series/african-migration/) - Africa is often seen as a continent of mass displacement and migration caused by poverty and violent conflict. Influenced by media images of massive refugee flows and ‘boat migration’, and alarmist rhetoric of politicians suggesting an impending immigrant invasion, the portrayal of Africa as a ‘continent on the move’ is linked to stereotypical ideas of Africa as a continent of poverty and conflict. In recent years, irregular migration from Africa to Europe has received extensive attention. Sensationalist media reportage and popular discourses give rise to an image of an ‘exodus’ of desperate Africans fleeing poverty at home in search of the European ‘El Dorado’. Millions of Africans are believed to be waiting to cross to Europe at the first opportunity. Yet, African migration remains overwhelmingly intra-continental. Contradicting conventional interpretations of African migration being essentially driven by poverty, violence and underdevelopment, increasing migration out of Africa seems rather to be driven by processes of development and social transformation which have increased Africans’ capabilities and aspirations to migrate, a trend which is likely to continue in the future.
- [Plastic](https://www.theelephant.info/series/plastic/) - At this point in modern life, we touch plastic more than we touch our loved ones. Plastic is everywhere: it is in our air, our water, and in our soils. It is the vehicle for globalization, and the epitome of unregulated late-stage capitalism—a system that externalizes costs to people and the environment for the sake of profit. Even for the conscious citizen, plastic is almost unavoidable, and living plastic-free requires a certain amount of access and privilege enjoyed by very few in the world. We are only just beginning to understand the effects of our global reliance on this material. We need urgent and drastic reductions in plastic production, consumption, and regulation at the local, national and global levels that tackle plastic pollution. In collaboration with HBS (Heinrich Boell Foundation) , the Elephant explores the effects of plastics.

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- [Podcasts](https://www.theelephant.info/./podcasts/) - Welcome to The Elephant Podcasts, where you find a range of fascinating thinkers, interesting conversations and engaging debates. Listen, Subscribe, Enjoy.
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- [Anglican Church of Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/anglican-church-of-kenya/)
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- [National Integrity Alliance](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/national-integrity-alliance/)
- [NIS](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/nis/)
- [Institute of Surveyors of Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/institute-of-surveyors-of-kenya/)
- [National Land Commission](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/national-land-commission/)
- [Institute of Economic Affairs](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/institute-of-economic-affairs/)
- [International Budget Partnership](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/international-budget-partnership/)
- [Free Press](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/free-press/)
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- [IPOA](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/ipoa/)
- [Forest Conservation and Management Act](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/forest-conservation-and-management-act/)
- [National Dialogue Forum](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/national-dialogue-forum/)
- [Protests](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/protests/)
- [Cybercrime](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/cybercrime/)
- [Court of Appeal](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/court-of-appeal/)
- [Kenya Kwanza](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kenya-kwanza/)
- [Amnesty International](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/amnesty-international/)
- [Maputo Protocol](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/maputo-protocol/)
- [Fumbua](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/fumbua/)
- [BRICS](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/brics/)
- [Tigray](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/tigray/)
- [Climate](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/climate/)
- [2017 Year In Review First 30](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/2017-year-in-review-first-30/)
- [Pombe Magufuli](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/pombe-magufuli/)
- [Zuma](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/zuma/)
- [This is America](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/this-is-america/)
- [Mwalimu Nyerere](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/mwalimu-nyerere/)
- [2017 Year In Review Last 30](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/2017-year-in-review-last-30/)
- [Vladmir Putin](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/vladmir-putin/)
- [Foreign Policy](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/foreign-policy/)
- [Nelson Mandela](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/nelson-mandela/)
- [Paul Kagame](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/paul-kagame/)
- [Afghanistan](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/afghanistan/)
- [Taliban](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/taliban/)
- [Women](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/women/)
- [Marijuana](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/marijuana/)
- [Blow](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/blow/)
- [Panama Papers](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/panama-papers/)
- [Tax Havens](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/tax-havens/)
- [Police](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/police/)
- [Amisom](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/amisom/)
- [KDF](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kdf/)
- [Laikipia](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/laikipia/)
- [Miraa](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/miraa/)
- [Zimbabwe](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/zimbabwe/)
- [Somaliland](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/somaliland/)
- [Nyayo House](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/nyayo-house/)
- [torture](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/torture/)
- [Satire](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/satire/)
- [XYZ](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/xyz/)
- [Frantz Fanon](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/frantz-fanon/)
- [Togo](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/togo/)
- [Middle Class](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/middle-class/)
- [Charterhouse Bank](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/charterhouse-bank/)
- [Benga](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/benga/)
- [Music](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/music/)
- [Music and Activism](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/music-and-activism/)
- [Luo](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/luo/)
- [Mugabe](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/mugabe/)
- [Intellectual Agenda for Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/intellectual-agenda-for-africa/)
- [Shades of Benga](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/shades-of-benga/)
- [Kanu](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kanu/)
- [Kenyatta](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kenyatta/)
- [Moi](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/moi/)
- [France](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/france/)
- [Macron](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/macron/)
- [Cameroon](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/cameroon/)
- [Fiscal Policy](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/fiscal-policy/)
- [Mozambique](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/mozambique/)
- [Telcoms](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/telcoms/)
- [Mwende Gatabaki](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/mwende-gatabaki/)
- [KCSE](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kcse/)
- [Slavery](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/slavery/)
- [Boycott](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/boycott/)
- [Brookside](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/brookside/)
- [New Year](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/new-year/)
- [DR Congo](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/dr-congo/)
- [Equatorial Guinea](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/equatorial-guinea/)
- [Teodoro Nguema](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/teodoro-nguema/)
- [Makueni](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/makueni/)
- [El Adde](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/el-adde/)
- [Africa Policy](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/africa-policy/)
- [Arts](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/arts/)
- [XYZ Show](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/xyz-show/)
- [Uthamaki](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/uthamaki/)
- [Food](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/food/)
- [Roads](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/roads/)
- [Marriage](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/marriage/)
- [Weddings](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/weddings/)
- [Mathira](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/mathira/)
- [Nyeri](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/nyeri/)
- [Poverty](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/poverty/)
- [Trump](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/trump/)
- [Swiss Embassy](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/swiss-embassy/)
- [Gambling](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/gambling/)
- [Sports Betting](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/sports-betting/)
- [Foreign Correspondents' Association](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/foreign-correspondents-association/)
- [Power](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/power/)
- [Raila](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/raila/)
- [Tribe](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/tribe/)
- [Ramaphosa](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/ramaphosa/)
- [Aid](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/aid/)
- [Oxfam](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/oxfam/)
- [Sexual Abuse](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/sexual-abuse/)
- [Moors](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/moors/)
- [Asian](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/asian/)
- [GenderGap](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/gendergap/)
- [IWD2018](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/iwd2018/)
- [PressForProgress](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/pressforprogress/)
- [WomensDay](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/womensday/)
- [Youth](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/youth/)
- [Godec](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/godec/)
- [Black Panther](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/black-panther/)
- [Daniel arap Moi](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/daniel-arap-moi/)
- [Jomo Kenyatta](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/jomo-kenyatta/)
- [NYS](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/nys/)
- [TICAD](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/ticad/)
- [State of Angst](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/state-of-angst/)
- [The Handshake](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/the-handshake/)
- [Post Colonialism](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/post-colonialism/)
- [KFCB](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kfcb/)
- [Water](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/water/)
- [JKIA](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/jkia/)
- [Winnie Mandela](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/winnie-mandela/)
- [Commissions of Inquiry](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/commissions-of-inquiry/)
- [Hunting](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/hunting/)
- [Arab League](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/arab-league/)
- [Wambui Otieno](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/wambui-otieno/)
- [Sierra Leone](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/sierra-leone/)
- [Julius Malema](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/julius-malema/)
- [Electricity](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/electricity/)
- [Kenya Power](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kenya-power/)
- [Millennials](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/millennials/)
- [African Heritage](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/african-heritage/)
- [Art](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/art/)
- [Douma](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/douma/)
- [Syria](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/syria/)
- [8-4-4 System](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/8-4-4-system/)
- [Ruto](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/ruto/)
- [Libya](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/libya/)
- [Maghreb](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/maghreb/)
- [Morocco](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/morocco/)
- [Tunisia](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/tunisia/)
- [North Korea](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/north-korea/)
- [South Korea](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/south-korea/)
- [Handshake](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/handshake/)
- [Silence](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/silence/)
- [Unemployment](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/unemployment/)
- [Gen X Voices](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/gen-x-voices/)
- [Barack Obama](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/barack-obama/)
- [Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/computer-misuse-and-cybercrimes-act-2018/)
- [Donald Trump](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/donald-trump/)
- [Kanye West](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kanye-west/)
- [Gulag](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/gulag/)
- [D R Congo](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/d-r-congo/)
- [Joseph Kabila](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/joseph-kabila/)
- [Kalonzo Musyoka](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kalonzo-musyoka/)
- [Africa Uncensored](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/africa-uncensored/)
- [John-Allan Namu](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/john-allan-namu/)
- [Budget 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/budget-2018/)
- [Oil](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/oil/)
- [Poaching](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/poaching/)
- [Malaysia](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/malaysia/)
- [Singapore](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/singapore/)
- [Kim Jong-un](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kim-jong-un/)
- [Kikuyu](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kikuyu/)
- [World Cup 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/world-cup-2018/)
- [Lifestyle Audit](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/lifestyle-audit/)
- [Football](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/football/)
- [AFD](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/afd/)
- [Air Pollution](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/air-pollution/)
- [Air Quality](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/air-quality/)
- [Switzerland](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/switzerland/)
- [Forestry](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/forestry/)
- [Tree Planting](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/tree-planting/)
- [AG](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/ag/)
- [Industry 4.0](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/industry-4-0/)
- [Jobs](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/jobs/)
- [Skills](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/skills/)
- [Namibia](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/namibia/)
- [Kizza Besigye](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kizza-besigye/)
- [Flag](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/flag/)
- [Auma Obama](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/auma-obama/)
- [Sauti Kuu](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/sauti-kuu/)
- [Kibera Bypass](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kibera-bypass/)
- [Kibra](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kibra/)
- [KURA](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kura/)
- [Najib Balala](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/najib-balala/)
- [Nairobi City Council](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/nairobi-city-council/)
- [Housing](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/housing/)
- [Kibera](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kibera/)
- [Chris Msando](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/chris-msando/)
- [USA](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/usa/)
- [Brand Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/brand-kenya/)
- [Tourism](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/tourism/)
- [Vision 2030](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/vision-2030/)
- [Fraud](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/fraud/)
- [Europe](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/europe/)
- [Migrants](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/migrants/)
- [Robert Mueller](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/robert-mueller/)
- [Jean-Pierre Bemba](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/jean-pierre-bemba/)
- [Arusha](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/arusha/)
- [Dar es Salaam](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/dar-es-salaam/)
- [Morogoro](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/morogoro/)
- [Westgate Mall](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/westgate-mall/)
- [Sexual Expoitation](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/sexual-expoitation/)
- [Pope Francis](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/pope-francis/)
- [Cuba](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/cuba/)
- [School Fires](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/school-fires/)
- [Development Partners](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/development-partners/)
- [DFID](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/dfid/)
- [USAID](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/usaid/)
- [Zambia](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/zambia/)
- [Kofi Annan](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kofi-annan/)
- [Transparency](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/transparency/)
- [Austin Bukenya](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/austin-bukenya/)
- [SAPs](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/saps/)
- [Ivory](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/ivory/)
- [KWS](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kws/)
- [Literature](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/literature/)
- [Queensland](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/queensland/)
- [TJRC](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/tjrc/)
- [Hindu](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/hindu/)
- [India](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/india/)
- [Narendra Modi](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/narendra-modi/)
- [Citizen](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/citizen/)
- [Digital](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/digital/)
- [Bidha'a](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/bidhaa/)
- [Islamist Radicalisation](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/islamist-radicalisation/)
- [Shia](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/shia/)
- [Hawkers](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/hawkers/)
- [Rascism](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/rascism/)
- [Disasters](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/disasters/)
- [MV Nyerere](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/mv-nyerere/)
- [Brazen](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/brazen/)
- [Wangu wa Makeri](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/wangu-wa-makeri/)
- [Athletics](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/athletics/)
- [Eliud Kipchoge](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/eliud-kipchoge/)
- [Marathon](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/marathon/)
- [Micere Mugo](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/micere-mugo/)
- [Nina Simone](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/nina-simone/)
- [Stella Nyanzi](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/stella-nyanzi/)
- [Nobel Prize](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/nobel-prize/)
- [Paul Romer](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/paul-romer/)
- [#TheProfiteers](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/theprofiteers/)
- [War](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/war/)
- [V.S Naipaul](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/v-s-naipaul/)
- [Paul Biya](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/paul-biya/)
- [OdipoDev](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/odipodev/)
- [Patriarchy](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/patriarchy/)
- [People Power](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/people-power/)
- [Prisons](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/prisons/)
- [#MeToo](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/metoo/)
- [Sexual Assault](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/sexual-assault/)
- [Maternal Health](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/maternal-health/)
- [Saudi Arabia](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/saudi-arabia/)
- [Avodale](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/avodale/)
- [Coca-Cola](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/coca-cola/)
- [Dasani](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/dasani/)
- [Grange Park](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/grange-park/)
- [Mt. Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/mt-kenya/)
- [High Grand Falls Dam](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/high-grand-falls-dam/)
- [Sex](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/sex/)
- [Sexual Violence](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/sexual-violence/)
- [Slay Queens](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/slay-queens/)
- [Socialites](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/socialites/)
- [KCPE](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kcpe/)
- [KQ](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kq/)
- [#Arua33](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/arua33/)
- [Jamal Khashoggi](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/jamal-khashoggi/)
- [Dr. Mukwege](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/dr-mukwege/)
- [King Leopold II](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/king-leopold-ii/)
- [MBS](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/mbs/)
- [Yemen](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/yemen/)
- [Malindi](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/malindi/)
- [Austerity](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/austerity/)
- [Bulla Karatasi](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/bulla-karatasi/)
- [Garissa](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/garissa/)
- [Internet Freedom](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/internet-freedom/)
- [Diaspora](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/diaspora/)
- [Immigrants](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/immigrants/)
- [Michuki](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/michuki/)
- [Neo Colonialism](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/neo-colonialism/)
- [Comoros](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/comoros/)
- [Guinea](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/guinea/)
- [Guinea Bissau](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/guinea-bissau/)
- [Passports](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/passports/)
- [Semlex](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/semlex/)
- [TVET](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/tvet/)
- [Beyond the Numbers](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/beyond-the-numbers/)
- [Kitale](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kitale/)
- [Donors](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/donors/)
- [Ambira High School](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/ambira-high-school/)
- [Abiy Ahmed](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/abiy-ahmed/)
- [Mavuno](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/mavuno/)
- [Mnangwagwa](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/mnangwagwa/)
- [Irungu Houghton](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/irungu-houghton/)
- [Kilifi](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kilifi/)
- [Sylvia Constanca Romano](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/sylvia-constanca-romano/)
- [Independence](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/independence/)
- [Bitcoin](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/bitcoin/)
- [Blockchain](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/blockchain/)
- [Ethereum](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/ethereum/)
- [Bank of Uganda](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/bank-of-uganda/)
- [Best of 2018](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/best-of-2018/)
- [Depression](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/depression/)
- [PwC](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/pwc/)
- [Stephen Mumbo](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/stephen-mumbo/)
- [Suicide](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/suicide/)
- [Traditional Medicine](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/traditional-medicine/)
- [Society](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/society/)
- [Christmas](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/christmas/)
- [Fatherhood](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/fatherhood/)
- [Kenya Shilling](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kenya-shilling/)
- [#RiversideAttack](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/riversideattack/)
- [Al Shabbab](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/al-shabbab/)
- [Creative Industry](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/creative-industry/)
- [Culture](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/culture/)
- [Film](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/film/)
- [Jesus Christ](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/jesus-christ/)
- [Salvation](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/salvation/)
- [14 Riverside](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/14-riverside/)
- [Vaccinations](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/vaccinations/)
- [Al Qaida](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/al-qaida/)
- [ISIS](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/isis/)
- [Cryptocurrency](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/cryptocurrency/)
- [Diversity](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/diversity/)
- [Race](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/race/)
- [Genocide](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/genocide/)
- [Sudan](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/sudan/)
- [KICD](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kicd/)
- [Cold War](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/cold-war/)
- [Wine](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/wine/)
- [Oliver Mtukudzi](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/oliver-mtukudzi/)
- [Yellow Fever](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/yellow-fever/)
- [New York Times](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/new-york-times/)
- [Bob Godec](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/bob-godec/)
- [Bruce Odhiambo](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/bruce-odhiambo/)
- [Jaramogi Oginga Odinga](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/jaramogi-oginga-odinga/)
- [Carilton David Maina](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/carilton-david-maina/)
- [Mahmoud Mamdani](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/mahmoud-mamdani/)
- [COMESA](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/comesa/)
- [Venezuela](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/venezuela/)
- [Nicolás Maduro](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/nicolas-maduro/)
- [Activism](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/activism/)
- [KEMRI](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kemri/)
- [Siaya](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/siaya/)
- [African](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/african/)
- [Decolonisation](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/decolonisation/)
- [Religion](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/religion/)
- [Spirituality](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/spirituality/)
- [Felix Tshisekedi](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/felix-tshisekedi/)
- [Capitalism](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/capitalism/)
- [Mombasa](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/mombasa/)
- [SS Khedive Ismail](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/ss-khedive-ismail/)
- [World War II](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/world-war-ii/)
- [Ayub Ogada](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/ayub-ogada/)
- [Nuts](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/nuts/)
- [Kalenjin](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kalenjin/)
- [Rift Valley](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/rift-valley/)
- [Dusit Attack](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/dusit-attack/)
- [BBC](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/bbc/)
- [Trophy Hunting](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/trophy-hunting/)
- [Urbanisation](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/urbanisation/)
- [University Act](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/university-act/)
- [Nyatiti](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/nyatiti/)
- [Algorithms](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/algorithms/)
- [Design](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/design/)
- [Kitenge](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kitenge/)
- [Administration Police](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/administration-police/)
- [Equality](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/equality/)
- [Nancy Baraza](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/nancy-baraza/)
- [Security Guards](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/security-guards/)
- [Ebola](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/ebola/)
- [Omar al-Bashir](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/omar-al-bashir/)
- [Gay laws](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/gay-laws/)
- [Sexuality](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/sexuality/)
- [Gender Bill](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/gender-bill/)
- [Informal Settlements](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/informal-settlements/)
- [Mukuru](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/mukuru/)
- [Karen Blixen](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/karen-blixen/)
- [Museums](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/museums/)
- [Neoliberalism](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/neoliberalism/)
- [Kenya Senarios](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kenya-senarios/)
- [YWCA](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/ywca/)
- [Brian Kagoro](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/brian-kagoro/)
- [Buhari](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/buhari/)
- [Brexit](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/brexit/)
- [Protest Music](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/protest-music/)
- [AFC Leopards](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/afc-leopards/)
- [Luyia](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/luyia/)
- [OCCRP](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/occrp/)
- [Troika Laundromat](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/troika-laundromat/)
- [Solar Energy](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/solar-energy/)
- [UK](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/uk/)
- [Elephant Conversation II](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/elephant-conversation-ii/)
- [National Identity Card](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/national-identity-card/)
- [University of Nairobi](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/university-of-nairobi/)
- [KRA](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kra/)
- [Rugby](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/rugby/)
- [Theresa May](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/theresa-may/)
- [Kwasi Wiredu](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kwasi-wiredu/)
- [Bicycle](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/bicycle/)
- [Boda Boda](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/boda-boda/)
- [Sexual Orientation](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/sexual-orientation/)
- [Xenophobia](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/xenophobia/)
- [Makau Mutua](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/makau-mutua/)
- [Judges](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/judges/)
- [Vincent Miclet](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/vincent-miclet/)
- [Cancer](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/cancer/)
- [The Gambia](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/the-gambia/)
- [Yahya Jammeh](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/yahya-jammeh/)
- [Huduma Number](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/huduma-number/)
- [Dadaab](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/dadaab/)
- [Uganda Airlines](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/uganda-airlines/)
- [Deforestation](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/deforestation/)
- [Podcasts](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/podcasts/)
- [Amazon](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/amazon/)
- [Indigenous People](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/indigenous-people/)
- [Oppression](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/oppression/)
- [Ilhan Omar](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/ilhan-omar/)
- [Artificial Intelligence](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/artificial-intelligence/)
- [Rafael Marques de Morais](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/rafael-marques-de-morais/)
- [Travel](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/travel/)
- [Fathers](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/fathers/)
- [Abdelfattal Al-Sisi](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/abdelfattal-al-sisi/)
- [Egypt](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/egypt/)
- [Philosophy](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/philosophy/)
- [National Debt](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/national-debt/)
- [Isiolo](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/isiolo/)
- [CGTN](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/cgtn/)
- [Crony Capitalism](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/crony-capitalism/)
- [Interns](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/interns/)
- [World Press Day](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/world-press-day/)
- [Akothee](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/akothee/)
- [Men](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/men/)
- [EFF](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/eff/)
- [Famine](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/famine/)
- [IDPs](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/idps/)
- [Kimwa](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kimwa/)
- [Kondele](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kondele/)
- [Clean Energy](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/clean-energy/)
- [ERC](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/erc/)
- [Solar](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/solar/)
- [Boniface Mwangi](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/boniface-mwangi/)
- [Asian Tiger](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/asian-tiger/)
- [Commuter Trains](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/commuter-trains/)
- [Railway](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/railway/)
- [Black Lives Matter](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/black-lives-matter/)
- [Ogutu Muraya](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/ogutu-muraya/)
- [Theatre](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/theatre/)
- [Family](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/family/)
- [Fashion](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/fashion/)
- [Investors](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/investors/)
- [Charity](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/charity/)
- [Coffee](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/coffee/)
- [Binyavanga Wainaina](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/binyavanga-wainaina/)
- [In Memoriam](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/in-memoriam/)
- [Kwani?](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kwani/)
- [TEDx](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/tedx/)
- [Nyamakima](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/nyamakima/)
- [Chalbi Desert](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/chalbi-desert/)
- [Marsabit](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/marsabit/)
- [CBC](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/cbc/)
- [Congo Brazzaville](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/congo-brazzaville/)
- [Money Laundering](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/money-laundering/)
- [National Dress](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/national-dress/)
- [Wole Soyinka](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/wole-soyinka/)
- [Banking](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/banking/)
- [Financial Services](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/financial-services/)
- [D-Day](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/d-day/)
- [Normandy](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/normandy/)
- [Chang'aa](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/changaa/)
- [Christianity](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/christianity/)
- [Queer](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/queer/)
- [Identity Card](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/identity-card/)
- [Gay](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/gay/)
- [Racism](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/racism/)
- [Tribalism](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/tribalism/)
- [Book Review](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/book-review/)
- [Relationships](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/relationships/)
- [Poetry](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/poetry/)
- [Africa Cup of Nations](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/africa-cup-of-nations/)
- [Yash Pal Ghai](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/yash-pal-ghai/)
- [Boris Johnson](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/boris-johnson/)
- [Exile](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/exile/)
- [Construction](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/construction/)
- [Gold](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/gold/)
- [Italy](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/italy/)
- [Tenders](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/tenders/)
- [Borders](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/borders/)
- [Kwame Nkrumah](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kwame-nkrumah/)
- [Okot p’Bitek](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/okot-pbitek/)
- [Seventh Day Adventist](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/seventh-day-adventist/)
- [Rwanda Patriotic Front](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/rwanda-patriotic-front/)
- [Christchurch](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/christchurch/)
- [ADHD](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/adhd/)
- [Tom Mboya](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/tom-mboya/)
- [Sportspesa](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/sportspesa/)
- [Canons](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/canons/)
- [Saba Saba](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/saba-saba/)
- [Lamu Coal](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/lamu-coal/)
- [Children](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/children/)
- [Orphanages](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/orphanages/)
- [Coal](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/coal/)
- [Ken Okoth](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/ken-okoth/)
- [Maseno School](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/maseno-school/)
- [DTAA](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/dtaa/)
- [Mauritius](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/mauritius/)
- [Value Addition](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/value-addition/)
- [Digitisation](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/digitisation/)
- [Cambridge Analytica](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/cambridge-analytica/)
- [Cervical Cancer](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/cervical-cancer/)
- [Uhuru Park](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/uhuru-park/)
- [Homeschooling](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/homeschooling/)
- [Punguza Mizigo](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/punguza-mizigo/)
- [Harambee Stars](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/harambee-stars/)
- [Pakistan](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/pakistan/)
- [Toni Morrison](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/toni-morrison/)
- [Divorce](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/divorce/)
- [Gabra](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/gabra/)
- [FIFA](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/fifa/)
- [Soccer](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/soccer/)
- [Chinese](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/chinese/)
- [Wife Inheritance](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/wife-inheritance/)
- [Wamlambez](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/wamlambez/)
- [Michael Alinda](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/michael-alinda/)
- [Goldenberg](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/goldenberg/)
- [Oromo](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/oromo/)
- [Evangelists](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/evangelists/)
- [Sossion](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/sossion/)
- [Prophet Owuor](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/prophet-owuor/)
- [Chigumadzi](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/chigumadzi/)
- [Death](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/death/)
- [Funeral Rites](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/funeral-rites/)
- [Ali Zaidi](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/ali-zaidi/)
- [GMOs](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/gmos/)
- [UNGA](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/unga/)
- [KNSL](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/knsl/)
- [One Acre Fund](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/one-acre-fund/)
- [Osuga](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/osuga/)
- [Marxism](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/marxism/)
- [Child Abuse](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/child-abuse/)
- [Palm Exotjca](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/palm-exotjca/)
- [Watamu](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/watamu/)
- [Machakos](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/machakos/)
- [Kabafest](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/kabafest/)
- [Boko Haram](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/boko-haram/)
- [Billy Kahora](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/billy-kahora/)
- [Makerere University](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/makerere-university/)
- [ICPD25](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/icpd25/)
- [Ukraine](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/ukraine/)
- [Mwendi Mwinzi](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/mwendi-mwinzi/)
- [Karl Marx](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/karl-marx/)
- [Public Utilities](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/public-utilities/)
- [Taarab](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/taarab/)
- [Them Mushrooms](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/them-mushrooms/)
- [Ideas](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/ideas/)
- [Marketplaces](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/marketplaces/)
- [Public Sphere](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/public-sphere/)
- [Diamond Platnumz](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/diamond-platnumz/)
- [Wasafi](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/wasafi/)
- [Bandits](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/bandits/)
- [Refugees](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/refugees/)
- [Cities](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/cities/)
- [Francophone](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/francophone/)
- [Publishing](https://www.theelephant.info/tag/publishing/)

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## Countries

- [Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/kenya/)
- [United States of America](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/united-states-of-america/)
- [Tanzania](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/tanzania/)
- [Uganda](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/uganda/)
- [Somalia](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/somalia/)
- [Israel](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/israel/)
- [Russia](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/russia/)
- [Angola](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/angola/)
- [China](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/china/)
- [Ethiopia](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/ethiopia/)
- [Nigeria](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/nigeria/)
- [Brazil](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/brazil/)
- [India](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/india/)
- [South Africa](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/south-africa/)
- [Rwanda](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/rwanda/)
- [Zimbabwe](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/zimbabwe/)
- [Palestine](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/palestine/)
- [Afghanistan](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/afghanistan/)
- [South Sudan](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/south-sudan/)
- [Sudan](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/sudan/)
- [Austria](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/austria/)
- [Botswana](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/botswana/)
- [Djibouti](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/djibouti/)
- [Lebanon](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/lebanon/)
- [Mali](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/mali/)
- [Chad](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/chad/)
- [Libya](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/libya/)
- [Malawi](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/malawi/)
- [Egypt](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/egypt/)
- [Germany](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/germany/)
- [Ghana](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/ghana/)
- [Netherlands](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/netherlands/)
- [DR Congo](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/congo-dr/)
- [Eritrea](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/eritrea/)
- [New Zealand](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/new-zealand/)
- [Australia](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/australia/)
- [Ecuador](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/ecuador/)
- [Tunisia](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/tunisia/)
- [Qatar](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/qatar/)
- [United Kingdom](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/united-kingdom/)
- [Senegal](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/senegal/)
- [Cameroon](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/cameroon/)
- [Equatorial Guinea](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/equatorial-guinea/)
- [Gabon](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/gabon/)
- [Congo Republic](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/congo-republic/)
- [Burkina Faso](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/burkina-faso/)
- [France](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/france/)
- [Norway](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/norway/)
- [Haiti](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/haiti/)
- [Burundi](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/burundi/)
- [Cuba](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/cuba/)
- [Armenia](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/armenia/)
- [Denmark](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/denmark/)
- [Algeria](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/algeria/)
- [Somaliland](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/somaliland/)
- [Zambia](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/zambia/)
- [Namibia](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/namibia/)
- [Liberia](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/liberia/)
- [Mexico](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/mexico/)
- [eSwatini](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/eswatini/)
- [Guinea](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/guinea/)
- [Azerbaijan](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/azerbaijan/)
- [Bahrain](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/bahrain/)
- [Mauritius](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/mauritius/)
- [Niger](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/niger/)
- [Mozambique](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/mozambique/)
- [Benin](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/benin/)
- [Venezuela](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/venezuela/)
- [Belgium](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/belgium/)
- [Ukraine](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/ukraine/)
- [Côte d’Ivoire](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/cote-divoire/)
- [Saudi Arabia](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/saudi-arabia/)
- [United Arab Emirates](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/united-arab-emirates/)
- [Estonia](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/estonia/)
- [Sri Lanka](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/sri-lanka/)
- [Morocco](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/morocco/)
- [Italy](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/italy/)
- [Jamaica](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/jamaica/)
- [Finland](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/finland/)
- [Togo](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/togo/)
- [Argentina](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/argentina/)
- [Canada](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/canada/)
- [Japan](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/japan/)
- [Kuwait](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/kuwait/)
- [Bangladesh](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/bangladesh/)
- [Syria](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/syria/)
- [Türkiye](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/turkiye/)
- [British Virgin Islands](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/british-virgin-islands/)
- [Cook Islands](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/cook-islands/)
- [Madagascar](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/madagascar/)
- [Central Africa Republic](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/central-africa-republic/)
- [Sierra Leone](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/sierra-leone/)
- [Nepal](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/nepal/)
- [Spain](https://www.theelephant.info/countries/spain/)

## Topics

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- [Technology](https://www.theelephant.info/topics/technology/)
- [Kenya](https://www.theelephant.info/topics/kenya/)
- [Education](https://www.theelephant.info/topics/education/)
- [Election](https://www.theelephant.info/topics/election/)
- [Uganda](https://www.theelephant.info/topics/uganda/)
- [Democracy](https://www.theelephant.info/topics/democracy/)
- [Military](https://www.theelephant.info/topics/military/)
- [Elections](https://www.theelephant.info/topics/elections/)

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- [Finance Uncovered](https://www.theelephant.info/publishers/finance-uncovered/)
- [D-Econ](https://www.theelephant.info/publishers/d-econ/)
- [Auddy](https://www.theelephant.info/publishers/auddy/)
- [The Brenthurst Foundation](https://www.theelephant.info/publishers/the-brenthurst-foundation/)
- [The Development Dilemma](https://www.theelephant.info/publishers/the-development-dilemma/)
- [The Pan African Review](https://www.theelephant.info/publishers/the-pan-african-review/)
- [Africa Check](https://www.theelephant.info/publishers/africa-check/)
- [Jacobin](https://www.theelephant.info/publishers/jacobin/)
- [Africa Arguments](https://www.theelephant.info/publishers/africa-arguments/)

## Funding Partners

- [Diakonia](https://www.theelephant.info/partnerships/diakonia/)
- [Heinrich Boll Foundation](https://www.theelephant.info/partnerships/heinrich-boll-foundation/)
- [Route to Food Initiative](https://www.theelephant.info/partnerships/route-to-food-initiative/)
- [Heinrich Boll Foundation - African Migration Hub](https://www.theelephant.info/partnerships/heinrich-boll-foundation-african-migration-hub/)
- [Heinrich Boll Foundation - Plastics](https://www.theelephant.info/partnerships/heinrich-boll-foundation-plastics/)
- [CivicTech Fund](https://www.theelephant.info/partnerships/civictech-fund/)

## Year Released

- [2022](https://www.theelephant.info/year_released/2022/)
- [2017](https://www.theelephant.info/year_released/2017/)
- [2018](https://www.theelephant.info/year_released/2018/)
- [2012](https://www.theelephant.info/year_released/2012/)
- [2001](https://www.theelephant.info/year_released/2001/)
- [2019](https://www.theelephant.info/year_released/2019/)
- [2010](https://www.theelephant.info/year_released/2010/)
- [2016](https://www.theelephant.info/year_released/2016/)
- [2015](https://www.theelephant.info/year_released/2015/)
- [1885](https://www.theelephant.info/year_released/1885/)
- [2013](https://www.theelephant.info/year_released/2013/)
- [2020](https://www.theelephant.info/year_released/2020/)
- [2009](https://www.theelephant.info/year_released/2009/)
- [2008](https://www.theelephant.info/year_released/2008/)
- [2004](https://www.theelephant.info/year_released/2004/)
- [1967](https://www.theelephant.info/year_released/1967/)
- [1990](https://www.theelephant.info/year_released/1990/)
- [1993](https://www.theelephant.info/year_released/1993/)
- [2021](https://www.theelephant.info/year_released/2021/)
- [2023](https://www.theelephant.info/year_released/2023/)
- [2007](https://www.theelephant.info/year_released/2007/)
- [1996](https://www.theelephant.info/year_released/1996/)
- [2014](https://www.theelephant.info/year_released/2014/)
- [2024](https://www.theelephant.info/year_released/2024/)
- [2025](https://www.theelephant.info/year_released/2025/)

## Document Categories

- [Parliament](https://www.theelephant.info/document_category/parliament/)
- [Executive Orders](https://www.theelephant.info/document_category/executive-orders/)
- [Reports](https://www.theelephant.info/document_category/reports/)
- [Speeches](https://www.theelephant.info/document_category/speeches/)
- [IEBC](https://www.theelephant.info/document_category/iebc/)
- [Kenya Elections 2017](https://www.theelephant.info/document_category/kenya-elections-2017/)
- [Political Parties](https://www.theelephant.info/document_category/political-parties/)
- [Judiciary](https://www.theelephant.info/document_category/judiciary/)
- [Kenya Gazette](https://www.theelephant.info/document_category/kenya-gazette/)
- [Press Statements](https://www.theelephant.info/document_category/press-statements/)
- [Publications](https://www.theelephant.info/document_category/publications/)
- [Letters](https://www.theelephant.info/document_category/letters/)
- [Surveys](https://www.theelephant.info/document_category/surveys/)
- [Memos](https://www.theelephant.info/document_category/memos/)
- [Resolutions](https://www.theelephant.info/document_category/resolutions/)
- [Legislation](https://www.theelephant.info/document_category/legislation/)