Raila Amolo Odinga, who died on 15 October 2025, aged 80, ran five times for the Kenyan presidency but didn’t win. Yet he became a statesman of enormous influence, whose political and humanitarian achievements surpassed those of many African heads of state. He will be remembered as one of the most important figures in the struggle for multiparty democracy.
Mental health experts have long warned that Kenya’s youth are suffering a silent epidemic. A 2022 UNICEF study revealed that 44.3% of adolescents experience mental health challenges, while 12.2% have diagnosable disorders. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 75% of Kenyans with mental illness never receive treatment due to stigma, lack of resources, and cost.
Having self-identified as a revolutionary, Odinga later proved to be committed to institutional reform and democratisation. His greatest legacy is the 2010 constitution, which attempted to devolve power away from the “imperial presidency”, which he campaigned for over many years.
That vantage point taught me a difficult truth: many nonprofits fail to secure funding not because their missions lack value, but because they are not fund-ready. They often struggle with systems, structures, and clarity, the very things that give funders confidence.
When most artists are grappling with history and archives, Zvavahera is focused on the dreams and visions she has, not as a retreat from the past or the urgency of the now, but as a parallel form of knowledge.
His art photography presents what immigrants bring with them, their resilience, inventiveness, and enduring connection to their homelands.
Standing before the Inquisition in Lisbon, Portugal in 1556, Mónica Fernandes, a woman from the coast of modern-day Ghana, was accused of casting malevolent spells and making pacts with demons. Her crime? Seeking a traditional Akan remedy for a simple cat bite.
My new book "The Devil Made Me Do It" shows how beliefs in the danger of the occult perform a social function across race and class. In the book I discuss numerous cases of so-called occult crime over the years and across communities.
In the heart of an African vibrant country, where the sun scorches the earth and tradition runs deep, countless women wake each day to battles unseen by the outside world. They carry burdens heavier than the weight of their footsteps, the burden of inequality, the weight of silence, and the chains of expectation.
In societies where purity is upheld as a virtue and marriages are arranged by families, some young Women risk everything, escaping home in the dark to follow their hearts, challenging the norms that Confine them.