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22 Aug 2025
Untangling Kenya’s Corruption Crisis
Corruption is like a virus affecting both the private and public sectors, hindering development in Kenya. It remains high despite efforts to combat it. In Transparency International’s 2024 Corru...
15 Aug 2025
Structured Engagement & Partnerships: Rethinking the Role of Activism in a Fractured Society
There was a time when the phrase “civil society” evoked images of selfless men and women bridging the gap for the voiceless, advocating for justice, and holding those in power accountable. They we...
15 Aug 2025
Devolution Conference 2025: Leveraging Technology and Partnerships for Good Governance
This year’s Devolution Conference took place in Homa Bay County, on the shores of Lake Victoria, with the striking backdrop of the Asego Hills. Being the 9th edition of the biennial conference, ...
8 Aug 2025
High Stakes: Examining Kenya’s Gambling Boom and Its Consequences
Gambling is increasingly spreading its roots across Kenya. The country ranks third at 79%, after South Africa (90%) and Uganda (87%), in terms of gambling in Sub-Saharan Africa. The gambling industr...
1 Aug 2025
Trump Turns to Europe: A New Strategy to Counter China?
When President Donald Trump began imposing tariffs and launching a trade war against China around 2018, the United States was reacting to a widening trade deficit with the Asian country and growing co...
1 Aug 2025
Education Capacitation and the Fiscal Squeeze: Is it time for reflection?
In recent weeks, an uncomfortable dissonance has emerged within the country’s fiscal corridors, one that speaks to deeper structural and fiscal tensions in the way the government funds essential ser...
25 Jul 2025
Public Participation Bill 2025: A Sufficient Antidote for Public Engagement in Kenya?
Long before recent calls by Raila Odinga for a national conclave on intergenerational dialogue and the formation of a “broad-based government”, Kenya experienced a similar political arrangement. ...
25 Jul 2025
Fifteen Years of the East African Common Market: Progress, Challenges, and the Road Ahead
In July 2010, the East African Community (EAC) took a bold step towards regional integration by launching the Common Market Protocol. This agreement aimed to allow the free movement of goods, services...
18 Jul 2025
Trump’s One Big, Beautiful Act: U.S. Law’s Ripple Effect on Kenya
President Donald Trump’s One Big, Beautiful Bill was passed on July 4, 2025, becoming the One Big, Beautiful Act. The law is a budget reconciliation act, a special type of legislation used to ex...
18 Jul 2025
Public Service Tracking App: Innovation or Invasion of Privacy?
On Wednesday, while in Samburu, Public Service Cabinet Secretary Geoffrey Ruku said that civil servants will soon be required to install a government mobile application on their phones to track their ...
11 Jul 2025
Speak Out or Stay Silent? The Dangerous Balance of Corporate Voice in Times of Political Unrest
The protests that gripped Kenya on June 25 and July 7 this year were not merely a contest between the government and citizens over tax hikes and economic hardship. They also marked a profound moment o...
27 Jun 2025
The Will to Die: How Kenyan Protests Forged a New Political Consciousness
On Wednesday, Kenya’s Gen Z marked one year since June 25, 2024, when many of their compatriots lost their lives to police brutality while protesting against the Finance Bill, 2024. The protests beg...
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