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Thursday, October 1, 2026
Conceptual watercolor-and-ink illustration showing Kenyan content creators, digital audiences and competing networks of political influence, amplification and commercial relationships.

Kenya Political Influencers: Who Gets to Speak?

Conceptual watercolor-and-ink illustration exploring the layers of ownership around the planned Lamu refinery in Kenya, from private capital and government stakes to public investment and land rights.

Lamu: Who Owns the Refinery?

Conceptual watercolor-and-ink illustration showing a distributed network of Kenyan communities, journalists, students and civic groups running beneath and around formal institutional structures.

Kenya: The Hidden Power

Conceptual watercolor-and-ink illustration of Kenyan infrastructure emerging above an intricate network of financial channels and unfinished funding connections.

Finance: The Money Behind the Promise

Conceptual watercolor-and-ink illustration of many African political lines converging toward a global diplomatic table with five established permanent chairs and a conspicuous missing seat.

UN: Africa’s Missing Seat

Conceptual watercolor-and-ink illustration of a large refinery gradually emerging from engineering drawings on Kenya’s coast, with incomplete links to finance, crude supply, power and local industry.

Lamu Refinery Kenya: The Refinery Test

Conceptual watercolor landscape showing climate-warning signals crossing East Africa but fading before reaching some farms and communities.

Food Insecurity: The Hunger We Can See Coming

Abstract editorial watercolor landscape showing uneven networks of roads, electricity and water connections across Kenya, illustrating how distance shapes access to services and opportunity.Inequality is also geographical. Roads, electricity, water, markets and public services can shorten — or deepen — the distance between people and opportunity.

Kenya Regional Inequality: The Geography of Access

Editorial watercolor illustration of young Kenyans using a shared digital workspace as paths of learning, technology and opportunity expand outward.

Kenya AI Opportunity: From Anthropic to Lucky Summer

  • civil society
  • election

Kenya Political Influencers: Who Gets to Speak?

Kenya’s political conversation is increasingly shaped by influencers, bloggers, YouTubers and independent creators. As Wantam and Tutam compete for attention ahead of 2027, a second question emerges: what happens when political influence also becomes...

JT
2026-10-01
  • energy
  • Industry
  • Infrastructure

Lamu: Who Owns the Refinery?

JT
2026-09-30
  • civil society
  • constitution
  • election

Kenya: The Hidden Power

JT
2026-09-29
  • energy
  • Infrastructure

Finance: The Money Behind the Promise

JT
2026-09-29
Conceptual watercolor-and-ink illustration showing Kenyan content creators, digital audiences and competing networks of political influence, amplification and commercial relationships.
  • civil society
  • election

Kenya Political Influencers: Who Gets to Speak?

Kenya’s political conversation is increasingly shaped by influencers, bloggers, YouTubers and independent creators. As Wantam and Tutam compete for attention ahead of 2027, a second question emerges: ...

JT
2026-10-01
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Conceptual watercolor-and-ink illustration exploring the layers of ownership around the planned Lamu refinery in Kenya, from private capital and government stakes to public investment and land rights.
  • energy
  • Industry
  • Infrastructure

Lamu: Who Owns the Refinery?

Kenya has broken ground on a $16 billion refinery in Lamu. Regional governments have been offered up to 30 percent, Kenya has a 10 percent allocation and public market participation has been promised....

JT
2026-09-30
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Conceptual watercolor-and-ink illustration showing a distributed network of Kenyan communities, journalists, students and civic groups running beneath and around formal institutional structures.
  • civil society
  • constitution
  • election

Kenya: The Hidden Power

Kenya recorded 453 protests in the first half of 2026. But the larger story is not protest alone. Community groups, youth networks, journalists and human-rights organisations form a distributed civic ...

JT
2026-09-29
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Conceptual watercolor-and-ink illustration of Kenyan infrastructure emerging above an intricate network of financial channels and unfinished funding connections.
  • energy
  • Infrastructure

Finance: The Money Behind the Promise

Kenya is changing how infrastructure is financed. The test is whether new capital turns plans into productive assets....

JT
2026-09-29
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Conceptual watercolor-and-ink illustration of many African political lines converging toward a global diplomatic table with five established permanent chairs and a conspicuous missing seat.
  • Africa
  • United Nations

UN: Africa’s Missing Seat

Africa has 54 UN member states but no permanent seat on the Security Council. William Ruto wants that historical imbalance corrected. Yet Kenya’s own EAC trader dispute points to the harder question: ...

JT
2026-09-27
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