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6 days ago · The Elephant is a website that covers politics, culture, and society in Africa and beyond. It features stories, analysis, opinions, events, videos, and podcasts on various topics and issues affecting the continent and its diaspora.
John Kamau - The Elephant
Dec 6, 2019 · John Kamau is an award-winning African investigative journalist and historian. Posted in Analysis. Nairobi: The City That Was Never Meant to Be
The Shirika Plan: In Search of Durable Futures for Refugees in Kenya
Sep 26, 2024 · Matai Muon is a development scholar, and an incoming doctoral student of International Development at Oxford with research interests straddling refugee governance, policy and the political rhetorics of development, especially in fragile economies.
Uganda Mailo Land Reforms: Disentangling Landlord From Tenant
Sep 4, 2021 · In Uganda, evictions of the poor from land by the dominant economic class have been common in the last two decades. They have mainly been classified under the broader rubric of land grabbing.
State of Hunger: Unravelling Kenya’s Food Crisis - The Elephant
Sep 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 ...
Southern Cameroon: War and No Peace - The Elephant
Jan 27, 2023 · The article examines the long-term conflict between Anglophone separatists and Francophone-dominated Cameroon, tracing its colonial and post-colonial roots. It argues that the current violence is a consequence of Anglophone grievances and state repression, and that peace negotiations are unlikely under Biya's regime.
Patrick Gathara - The Elephant
Mar 23, 2021 · Mr. Gathara is a social and political commentator and cartoonist based in Nairobi. Posted in Opinion. Kenya: Are We at the Beginning of a Media Renaissance?
Culinary Imperialism and the Hierarchies of Food
Sep 27, 2019 · How colonialism altered the food habits and culture of Africans in Kenya through violence, displacement, and Christianisation. Learn how European foods and values were imposed and African foods and values were devalued and marginalised.
A National Reckoning: The Unfinished Business of Tom Mboya
Jul 19, 2019 · Mboya’s ghost is that of a repressed collective identity submerged into the nation’s unconsciousness. The repression shields the country from confronting its problems of marginalization of minorities, ethnic domination by a few, …
Education in Rwanda: A Long Walk to the Knowledge Economy
Jan 27, 2023 · Rwanda has shown commitment to bring improvements to its education sector. The development of Human capital that involves the enhancement of the education and health sectors was one of the main pillars of Rwanda’s development programme launched in 2000 to transform the country into a middle income state driven by the knowledge economy by 2020. Many developed countries joined in to ...