Opinion - The Elephant
WEBJul 19, 2024 — Unique perspectives from subject matter experts. Smartphones and Dance-Moves: How the Anti-people Legislation in Kenya Was Beaten by the People
Podcasts - The Elephant
WEBJul 20, 2024 — Welcome to The Elephant Podcasts, where you find a range of fascinating thinkers, interesting conversations and engaging debates. Listen, Subscribe, Enjoy.
The Elephant
WEB3 days ago — Drawing on the Pan-Africanist ideals and the African experience, The Elephant aims to be at the center of the national dialogue, speaking truth power in a quest to re-imagine a state and a society that guarantees a life of inclusivity and dignity for all.
Tracing the Roots of Benga
WEBOct 19, 2017 — “You cannot sing African music in proper English.” – Fela Kuti Now, more than 40 years later, it might be difficult to imagine that Kenyan Benga music was associated with freedom fighters in Rhodesia’s Bush War (the Chimurenga) in the late 1960s through to the late 1970s. In the fight to end white minority rule
State of Hunger: Unravelling Kenya’s Food Crisis - The Elephant
WEBSep 29, 2023 — Although the country produces enough food to feed the population, economic access remains a challenge. Kenya’s rate of self-sufficiency in the production and availability of food is 90.3 per cent against an import dependency of 12.7 per cent, but on the four indicators of the Global Food Security Index in 2022, Kenya scored 41.3 per cent on affordability, the only indicator where the country ...
Videos - The Elephant
WEBMar 11, 2024 — Mutakha Kangu: The Nuts and Bolts of Constitutional Oversight – Part I. The Elephant. August 22, 2024 August 22, 2024
The BBI Case at the Supreme Court of Kenya - The Elephant
WEBJan 21, 2022 — Today, arguments commenced before a seven-judge bench of the Supreme Court of Kenya in Attorney-General v David Ndii and Ors, popularly known as “the BBI Case.”On this blog, I have covered in some detail the progress of this case, including the judgment of the High Court (see here), the oral arguments at the Court of Appeal (see here), and the judgment(s) of the Court of Appeal (Part 1 ...
Understanding Africa’s Middle Class - The Elephant
WEBJun 15, 2023 — Since the early 2010s, development actors, financial experts, and academics have been discussing the “middle classes” in Africa. The rising income of considerable shares of the populations in many countries triggered a focus on a so-called “indispensable” middle class and was eagerly promoted by the African Development Bank. It had an aura of success in “development” and ...
Hijacking Food Policies to Feed Agribusiness - The Elephant
WEBOct 23, 2023 — Donors, governments and business leaders had another lacklustre African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) this year from 5 to 8 September in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. There was little fanfare, few major announcements and no hint of meaningful input from small-scale farmers, the supposed beneficiaries of the erstwhile Green Revolution for Africa.
The Death of LAPSSET and Kenya’s Poverty of Imagination
WEBNov 6, 2020 — The Kenyan government’s misguided and costly investments in big infrastructure projects are compromising the nation’s socio-economic transformation. Meanwhile, elite-driven opportunism has suffocated intellectual debate that once characterised the flow of ideas in this part of the world. The time is …