The Kenyanist
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
How Should We Think About Kenya's Future?
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Scenario planning is a concept that helps us to make predictions about the future. It is often used in corporate strategy to analyse key factors that ...
The History of Social Protection in Kenya
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The aim of social protection policies is to protect the social wellbeing of people. Thistakes many forms including cash transfer programs to vulnerabl...
Land disputes in Gusiiland: Witchcraft Accusations and violence against Elderly Women
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In traditionally patriarchal societies, land ownership becomes a big cause of conflict especially when women hold the rights to ownership. In the rec...
Kenya's Slow Move from Food Aid to Food Security
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Food security is an issue that Kenya continues to struggle with. Kenya is often ranked poorly in food security, primarily due to the cost of this food...
How Do We Change Kenya Into A Better Place?
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sparked by the punitive Finance Bill and need for better governance, Kenya has been facing nation-wide protests since mid-June led by the Gen Z and yo...
Taking Stock of the EAC: Leadership, Competition and Security
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Somalia was recently formally admitted into the East African Community, a regional bloc with aspirations for deeper economic and political union. Soma...
A New Middle Class in Kenya: Faking It to Make It
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Most Kenyan youths live under the gloom of economic uncertainty which leads to hopelessness. This has been against a backdrop of multiple intervention...
Dispossession and voluntarism: The dynamics of Community Health Work in Kenya
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a past episode of the Kenyanist, we talked about reforming the NHIF, which the government has recently undertaken to improve healthcare delivery. W...
Fuzzy arithmetic: Kenya’s 42+ ethnic groups
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For many Kenyans, being part of an ethnic group is an important mark of their identity. It symbolizes belonging, and access to resources. The question...
The State of Athletics in Kenya
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kenya is renowned for producing world star athletes such as Eliud Kipchoge, a marathon legend, Faith Kipyegon, a top middle-distance runner, and the p...
The Politics of Kenya’s Cost of Living Crisis
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Ken Opalo, a Georgetown University Professor provides a comprehensive analysis of Kenya's cost-of-living crisis. We unpack th...
A perspective on Political protests in Kenya
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kenya's political history is marked by protests. We can trace the history of protests to colonial times. In this episode, we are joined by Dr West...
Pursuit of dignified work by Kenyan domestic workers
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Domestic work in Kenya, as well as in other parts of the world, is frequently characterized by low wages and a lack of recognition. Nevertheless, dome...
Kenyan Hip-hop and the Covid-19 Pandemic
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The world is re-emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, and we are only now beginning to understand the full impact of the crisis. In Kenya, we need to...
Food Culture in Kenya's Coastal Region
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kenya’s food culture is dynamic and evolving, based on both local and foreign influences. On the local front, we know that different cultural group...
Street-vending in Kenya
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we seek to understand the political economy of street vending in Kenya, by speaking to Nathan Kariuki, a PhD student at the Centre fo...
Reforming the NHIF
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In The Kenyanist today, we are joined by John Kinuthia, a Senior Program Officer at the International Budget Partnership who has recently, together w...
Tracing Kenya's Artefacts abroad
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Kenyanist, we aim to broaden and deepen our understanding of the lost Kenyan artefacts, by talking to the incredible Jim Chuc...
Understanding Kenya's competence based curriculum (CBC)
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of The Kenyanist’s second season, Kamau Wairuri speaks to Dr Beatrice Akala, an educationist and Postdoctoral Research Fellow a...
Meet The Host
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For this International Podcast Day special episode, our new producer Tevin Sudi has a conversation with our executive director and host, Kamau Wairuri...
Forced Evictions in Kenya
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explores the legal, social, and political dimensions of forced evictions in Kenya with Pauline Vata. She is a seasoned human rights lawye...
Kenya’s 2022 Elections & The East African Community (EAC)
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Kenyanist, Sylvanus Wekesa hosts Nicodemus Minde who is a lecturer of International Relations at the United States Internationa...
A political economy of Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway (SGR)
05 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Kamau Wairuri hosts Eugene Ngumi, a public affairs consultant based in Nairobi, to discuss the politics of the Standard Gauge Railway...
The making of a community organizer
18 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kamau Wairuri hosts Billian Okoth Ojiwa (@BillianOjiwa) to discuss his work as a community organiser in Kenya. Billian is the founder of the Billian M...
Financing Development at the grassroots: From Harambee to CDF
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes In this episode, Kamau Wairuri hosts Ken Opalo to discuss the financing of development at the grassroots in Kenya. Ken is an As...
Kenya’s Foreign Policy in Uhuru Kenyatta’s era
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kamau Wairuri hosts Sylvanus Wekesa to discuss Kenya's Foreign Policy during the presidency of Uhuru Kenyatta (2013 - to date). We have a wide ranging...
The Cost of Politics in Kenya
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Kamau Wairuri talks to Tom Mboya, a governance consultant, on the cost of politics in Kenya. Our discussion is based on the findings ...
The politics of street naming in Nairobi
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of The Kenyanist, Kamau Wairuri (host) talks to Melissa Wanjiru-Mwita, a lecturer in Spatial Planning at the Technical Universit...
The Kenyanist: A podcast on Kenyan society and politics
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas