The Elephant

12/09/2025

WANDIA NJOYA - 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/

12/09/2025

JONATHAN ORT - 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.

11/09/2025

CALEB OPPONG - 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 thi...

10/09/2025

ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE - Katiba At 15 Celebrations

Kenya’s Katiba turned 15 in August 2025, a milestone celebrated nationwide. Drawing from 2025's political narratives, citizens gathered to honor the journey at Alliance Française, reflecting on stories of resilience, devolution's impact, and the ongoing fight for equity through the arts.

05/09/2025

OYUNGA PALA - But You Prayed: A Lesson In Everyday Reality

The unspoken truth about prayer and public safety on Kenyan roads

04/09/2025

KANG-CHUN CHENG - Kagame’s 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.

03/09/2025

JOHN GITHONGO - The Gĩkũyũ Question: Kenya’s Coming Struggle of a Generation

Gen Z are resisting tribal arithmetic even as the political class reaches for the bogeyman of Gĩkũyũ hegemony.

29/08/2025

CLAIRE NASIKE AKELLO - Seeds of Discontent: Kenya’s 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.

27/08/2025

MEHMET BERKAY DURDU - Türkiye 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.

25/08/2025

MIKHAIL NYAMWEYA - 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.

22/08/2025

IVAN MAYABI - Gen Z’s 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.

21/08/2025

REGINALD M.J. ODUOR - 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.