In what is shaping up as the battle of the deputies, Deputy President Kithure Kindiki who replaced Mr Rigathi Gachagua after ...

Keria Nkumbo, a dusty trading centre on the border of Meru and Tharaka Nithi, carries within its daily struggles the unspoken truth of Kenya’s politics: When poverty hardens into a way of life, ...

Kenya’s former Prime Minister and veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga has died at the age of 80. Widely regarded as one of the country’s most influential political figures, Odinga shaped Kenya’s ...

As the echo of the 17-gun salute thundered through Nyamira village on Sunday evening, followed by the roar of a military fly-past, a profound silence descended across Kenya. Amid the emotion lay the ...

Africa has increased the number of women in parliament but still looks set to miss a global goal of gender parity in politics ...

President William Ruto defended his Ukambani tour, affirming his right as Kenya's leader to visit any region, while ...

When Nigerian scholar Babafemi Badejo published Raila Odinga: An Enigma in Kenyan Politics in 2006, he captured something moving about the man who would dominate Kenya’s political imagination for half ...

One of the markers of Kenyan statesman Raila Odinga was not just his courage in challenging the establishment but his ability to fortify it when circumstances demanded. An example was his willingness ...

Professor Suren Pillay, the director of the Centre for African Studies and holder of the AC Jordan Chair in African Studies ...

Raila Odinga, a former prime minister of Kenya and perennial presidential candidate whose populist campaigns rattled authorities and gave him an outsized influence on political life in his East ...