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What challenges does Kenya face post-aid cuts?
Global aid is flickering. 2025 could write its obituary. Is the broad based Kenya government prepared to navigate the financial drought?
Mar 83 min read


Fill the gaps left by USAID freeze to combat healthcare challenges
The blanket USAID funding ban is the most abrupt in the entire history of development assistance. How can Kenya fill the gap left?
Feb 223 min read

Hanifa and Lenolkulal: A tale of two leaders
Protester Hanifa and former Samburu Governor Moses Lenolkulal offers the nation different leadership styles three years before the elections
Sep 7, 20243 min read

What does the choice of the new Kenya cabinet communicate?
Beware the company you keep, lest you become the average of them, or so the quote goes. The reconstitution of the national cabinet...
Aug 17, 20243 min read


How to improve our living standards and create just cities
New strategies are needed to raise levels of citizen oversight, discipline and care for the limited public investment taking place.
Jan 8, 20243 min read


We're caught between danger of revolt and chance of reason
Wednesday’s protests are the most violent yet. Observing the protests, the constitution’s drafters must have struggled to see any...
Jul 16, 20233 min read

Kenyans smell double-speak in government policies and tax plans
Left untransformed, inequalities and exclusion are our greatest threat, our Upper Hill statisticians tell us. In a week where we are told...
Jun 10, 20233 min read

Are the new tax proposals equitable or just excessive?
For a change, it may soon be the turn of middle and upper classes to bang sufuria pans. Through the National Treasury, the Kenya Kwanza...
May 7, 20233 min read

Greed places the future of devolution at a crossroads
The future of devolution is at a crossroads. Dwindling funding, repeated attempts by the national government to take over key functions...
Jul 27, 20193 min read
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