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DEMAS KIPRONO - How the 2010 Constitution Was Hijacked to Silence Kenyans
09/07/2025

DEMAS KIPRONO - 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.

WAIKWA WANYOIKE - The Humility, Purpose and Power of a Pheroze Mentorship
09/07/2025

WAIKWA WANYOIKE - 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.

JIMMY KITIRO - Saba Saba: 35 years On
08/07/2025

JIMMY KITIRO - 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 t...

KABUBU MUTUA - What Endures: The Persistence of Kenyan Ghosts Across Time
04/07/2025

KABUBU MUTUA - 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.

MUOKI MBUNGA - Echoes of Mau Mau in Kenya’s Gen Z Movement
04/07/2025

MUOKI MBUNGA - Echoes of Mau Mau in Kenya’s 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.

FRANCIS OMONDI - 25th June Gen Z Protests: Virtue in the Face of Brute Force
03/07/2025

FRANCIS OMONDI - 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.

MARYANNE NDUATI - In the Fight for Kenya’s Soul, Choose Your Fighter, Choose Your Stance
03/07/2025

MARYANNE NDUATI - In the Fight for Kenya’s 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.

NJOYA & OGADA - Kenyans Are Fighting to Build Their Country Themselves
30/06/2025

NJOYA & OGADA - 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 Anniversaryhttps://www.theelephant.info/photos/2025/06/27/the-gen-z-protest-anniversary/
27/06/2025

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...

AFRICA UNCENSORED - Souls On Fire: Behind Kenya’s 2024 Protests
26/06/2025

AFRICA UNCENSORED - Souls On Fire: Behind Kenya’s 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 th...

SUHAM ABDISHAKUR - The Silent Architects of Resistance
26/06/2025

SUHAM ABDISHAKUR - 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.

RENNY KIPKORIR - June 2024 – Seven Days of Rage
25/06/2025

RENNY KIPKORIR - 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.

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