Uganda, Feb. 27 -- DEBUNK, a quarterly magazine of "non-fiction and reportage" launched in Nairobi. In Ugandan terms, consider it a sibling of the wonderful Weganda Review. There is a meaty offering ... Read More
Nairobi, Feb. 24 -- Tanzania goes to the ballot in October 2025, but visiting the commercial capital Dar es Salaam a few days ago, it was a big surprise to find some journalists and analysts who weren... Read More
Tanzania, Feb. 22 -- Along East Africa's coast this week, there were two revealing contrasting stories about media. In Kenya, the government was sued by the Law Society of Kenya (LSK), for giving The... Read More
Uganda, Feb. 20 -- The week found me in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam, where among other things, I spent some hours at CRDB, the country's largest commercial bank. It has assets worth T... Read More
Nairobi, Feb. 17 -- Watching the upheaval in the Democratic Republic of Congo in recent days, one is tempted to invoke the African proverb that "the man who marries a beautiful woman and the farmer wh... Read More
Tanzania, Feb. 15 -- In May last year, 10 kilometres road race world record holder Rhonex Kipruto became the latest Kenyan athlete to be suspended for doping. With 70 Kenyan Kenyan athletes, mostly l... Read More
Uganda, Feb. 13 -- Middle-aged folks in Kampala who are into radical African things will remember the Nigerian Pan-African scholar and activist Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem. Taju, as we called him, had the ... Read More
Nairobi, Feb. 10 -- The Africa Cup of Nations is coming to a close in Cote d'Ivoire. What a delightful, crazy, and wild tournament it has been! The game on the field was the best it has been. The pass... Read More
Tanzania, Feb. 8 -- The explosion last week at a gas storage and refilling facility in Nairobi's Embakasi suburb, which killed at least six people and injured over 300, has been blamed on corruption, ... Read More