Kenya

Data protection is poor for African farmers who use digital services: Kenya and Ghana cases highlight gaps

Heike Baumüller, University of Bonn and Bezawit Beyene Chichaibelu, University of Bonn Across Africa, agricultural producers are turning to digital solutions to get information about farming methods, market access or financial services. By 2022,...

Kenya’s Dance Traditions: Movement as Memory and Identity

In the humid air of Mombasa’s coastal evenings, the strains of taarab music drift across courtyards, carrying poetry and rhythm into the night. The dance that accompanies it is as fluid as the...

High-rise living in Nairobi’s Pipeline estate is stressful – how men and women cope

Mario Schmidt, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Miriam Maina, University of Manchester Within sight of Kenya’s main international airport in Nairobi’s east, Pipeline...

Kenyans stand to lose from Adani airport deal: finance guru explains why

Economy
Odongo Kodongo, University of the Witwatersrand - The proposal submitted early this year by Indian conglomerate Adani Group to Kenya Airports Authority to develop and renovate parts of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport has recently been made public. To facilitate informed public engagement with the proposal, as a project finance student, I thought it would be useful to provide an expert view on its key technical aspects. Adani exploits a provision in Kenya’s Public Private Partnerships Act of 2021 that allows private companies to initiate project proposals and channel them to the government for consideration. Briefly, Adani seeks to run Jomo Kenyatta International Airport via a 30-year build, operate and transfer arrangement. Under...

Jomo Kenyatta, father of the nation? Kenya’s first president built up a myth which masked his faults

Stephen Mutie, Kenyatta University - Kenya’s legacy as a state is deeply intertwined with Jomo Kenyatta’s influence on the nation. Kenya’s founding president died...

Refugees in east Africa suffer from high levels of depression, making it harder to rebuild lives – new study

Kenya
Olivier Sterck, University of Oxford; Julia R Pozuelo, Harvard University; Maria Flinder Stierna, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, and Raphael Bradenbrink, University of Oxford By the end of 2023, more than 100 million people globally...

Jomo Kenyatta, father of the nation? Kenya’s first president built up a myth which masked his faults

Stephen Mutie, Kenyatta University - Kenya’s legacy as a state is deeply intertwined with Jomo Kenyatta’s influence on the nation. Kenya’s founding president died on 22 August 1978 in his sleep at State House, Mombasa. Kenyatta is generally typecast as the “father of the nation”, guiding the newly independent Kenya onto the path of independence and development. It is an image he carefully crafted. Jomo Kenyatta was...

Refugees in east Africa suffer from high levels of depression, making it harder to rebuild lives – new study

Olivier Sterck, University of Oxford; Julia R Pozuelo, Harvard University; Maria Flinder Stierna, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, and Raphael Bradenbrink, University of Oxford By the end of 2023, more than 100 million people...

Data protection is poor for African farmers who use digital services: Kenya and Ghana cases highlight gaps

Heike Baumüller, University of Bonn and Bezawit Beyene Chichaibelu, University of Bonn Across Africa, agricultural producers are turning to digital solutions to get information about farming methods, market access or financial services. By 2022,...

Child malnutrition in Kenya: AI model can forecast rates six months before they become critical

Laura Ferguson, University of Southern California and Bistra Dilkina, University of Southern California Globally, nearly half of the deaths of...

Jomo Kenyatta, father of the nation? Kenya’s first president built up a myth which masked his faults

Stephen Mutie, Kenyatta University - Kenya’s legacy as a state is deeply intertwined with Jomo Kenyatta’s influence on the nation. Kenya’s founding president died on 22 August 1978 in his sleep at State...

Kenya’s Dance Traditions: Movement as Memory and Identity

In the humid air of Mombasa’s coastal evenings, the strains of taarab music drift across courtyards, carrying poetry and rhythm into the night. The dance that accompanies it is as fluid as the...