Photo: Gordwin Odhiambo

Southern Exposure: Gordwin Odhiambo

Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.

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NI 552 - Disinformation - November, 2024
Illustration: ILYA

Cartoon History: Mau Mau uprising

ILYA looks back to when Britain crushed an anti-imperialist rebellion in Kenya.

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NI 551 - Election year - September, 2024
Doctors and other medical staff take part in a protest over pay and working conditions in downtown Nairobi on Tuesday 16 April 2024.Photo: Brian Inganga /AP Photo/Alamy

Doctors strike a deal

Report from Kenya, by Lara Gibson.

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NI 550 - Abortion - July, 2024
View from Africa

View from Africa

Stop killing us! By Rosebell Kagumire.

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NI 549 - Debt: which way out? - May, 2024
Hundreds joined a protest outside the Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, on 4 September 2023, marching against the continued use of fossil fuels and calling for financial transfers from rich nations.Photo: John Muchucha/Reuters

Sign of the Times

Protest outside the Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi, Kenya.

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NI 546 - Spying on dissent - November, 2023
Workers take on Meta

Workers take on Meta

Report from Nairobi by Anthony Langat.

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NI 544 - Palestine - July, 2023
Gathering vegetables for market in the Mau Forest, August 2008.Photo: Reuters/Finbarr O'Reilly

Now for implementation!

One year on from a landmark court ruling, the Ogiek of the Mau Forest are still waiting for reparations and collective land rights. Amy Hall reports from Kenya on a case that has the potential to change the lives of Indigenous people in East Africa and beyond.

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NI 544 - Palestine - July, 2023
Honey trap

Honey trap

Report on beekeeping in Kitui, Kenya by Shadrack Omuka.

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NI 543 - Loneliness - May, 2023
Heading out to sea in Mahébourg, Mauritius.Photo: Tommy Trenchard/Panos Pictures

Treasure hunt

Could a Kenyan court case point the way towards a more just tax system? Amy Hall investigates.

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NI 542 - A world to win - March, 2023
Illustration: Emma Peer

Introducing... William Ruto

The 2022 Kenyan presidential election victor.

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NI 540 - Land rights - November, 2022
The property of Mukuru Kwa Njenga residents is strewn across the ground after evictions to make way for the Nairobi Expressway, 17 November 2021.Photo: Donwilson Odhiamb/Sopa Images/Sipa USA/Alamy

Roads for the rich, tents for the poor

Kenyan social justice activist Anami Daudi Toure speaks to Amy Hall about how he and his neighbours in Nairobi’s Mukuru kwa Njenga settlement are picking up the pieces after violent mass evictions.

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NI 540 - Land rights - November, 2022
Riot police hit protesters participating in a demonstration against lawmakers’ salary demands outside the parliament buildings in Nairobi in May 2013.Photo: Thomas Mukoya/Reuters/Alamy

Colonize and punish

Mass imprisonment and merciless policing were the preferred tools of control for European colonizers. Patrick Gathara explores the legacy left in Kenya.

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NI 536 - Abolition - March, 2022
View from Africa

View from Africa

Nanjala Nyabola mourns the loss of Nairobi’s tree canopy and questions the expansion of cities.

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NI 531 - Vaccine equality - May, 2021
The expansion of fast-food brands in Africa is backed by powerful advertising such as this billboard on Kenyatta Avenue, a major street in the central business district of Nairobi, Kenya. The country is now home to 22 KFC outlets, which have paved the way for other international chains - Subway, Domino’s Pizza, Cold Stone Creamery - that are expanding into East Africa.Photo: Brian Inganga

When KFC came to Kenya

As Big Food spreads throughout the Global South using the tobacco playbook, Kabugi Mbae investigates the rise in obesity – and non-communicable diseases – in Kenya.

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NI 531 - Vaccine equality - May, 2021
View from Africa

View from Africa

Nanjala Nyabola on the mask mandate and personal freedom.

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NI 527 - Covid-19 lessons from the pandemic - September, 2020
View from Africa

View from Africa

Check your passport privilege, writes Nanjala Nyabola.

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NI 520 - The right to the city - July, 2019
Tolossa Asrat, editor of Kanere, poses with a local Turkana girl in Kakuma refugee camp, northwest Kenya.Photo: Sally Hayden

Kenya: refugee reporters

Sally Hayden reports on a fully independent, refugee-run news outlet in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya

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NI 518 - Building a new internationalism - March, 2019
Photo: Brian Otieno

Southern Exposure: Brian Otieno

Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.

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NI 515 - Making peace in a world at war - September, 2018

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
Disinformation November, 2024
Election year September, 2024
Abortion July, 2024
Debt: which way out? May, 2024
Spying on dissent November, 2023
Palestine July, 2023
Palestine July, 2023
Loneliness May, 2023
A world to win March, 2023
Land rights November, 2022
Land rights November, 2022
Abolition March, 2022
Vaccine equality May, 2021
Vaccine equality May, 2021
Democracy on the edge March, 2021
Covid-19 lessons from the pandemic September, 2020
Covid-19 lessons from the pandemic September, 2020
The right to the city July, 2019
Building a new internationalism March, 2019
Making peace in a world at war September, 2018
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