The Elephant

18/12/2025

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 20...

18/12/2025

MAJALIA & AKELLO - Community Forest Associations: Conservationists or Spectators?

Kenya’s forest conservation system remains hierarchical and paternalistic, an echo of colonial forestry administration masquerading as partnership.

17/12/2025

Two weeks after the signing of the Health Co-operation Framework between the Kenyan President, and the United States, President Donald Trump, a great question cutting across Africa and its leadership linger;

Will African leaders continue to be participants in drawing maps that others design, signing agreements where the true contours of power and profit are hidden in benign language? Or will they, learning from both the brutal history you recount and the nascent examples of Estonia and Botswana, convene their own map rooms?

For Full Analysis:
Read: https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/12/15/the-brutality-is-in-the-benign/

17/12/2025

KALUNDI SERUMAGA - 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.

16/12/2025

MWANGI GITHAHU - 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.

15/12/2025

HORACE G. CAMPBELL - 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.

15/12/2025

JOHN-ALLAN NAMU - 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.

11/12/2025

AFRICA UNCENSORED - 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 se...

11/12/2025

"Maintaining the sharp focus, educating & Engaging people civically and organizing towards the next general election is ideal. If everybody decides that this is what we want and this is what we are going to work towards, its all possible."

Find more to this episode on:

SPOTIFY- https://open.spotify.com/episode/7IF4iQVcBm5W3qbVI8D1Kk?si=PLycFDBeT-ydnc_Aht-7JA

WATCH - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIzQitx4gJ0

10/12/2025

YOHANNES WOLDEMARIAM - 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 14thcentury mythology.

10/12/2025

"A ballot revolution is what we are looking at right now. Being out on the streets, we are being unheard, and we are suffering as a result of it. now, the ballot seems to be the remaining hope that we have for now."

A discussion with Shakira Wafula, highlights the way forward, beyond the Gen Z demos, in the promotion of a better governance and leadership.

Find the episode on:
Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/episode/7IF4iQVcBm5W3qbVI8D1Kk?si=PLycFDBeT-ydnc_Aht-7JA

Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIzQitx4gJ0

Inuka Kenya Ni Sisi! Civic Voice Initiative

09/12/2025

AZANGO, DAVID, SALDÍVAR & SALAS - Red Rivers, Grey Skies: The Global Impact of Europe’s 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 Eu...