Some lives are so full, so luminous, that even in passing, their glow remains, illuminating the paths of those they touched. Professor Bethwell A. Ogot was such a life—a giant in African ...

In 2019, Prof. Bethwell A. Ogot welcomed me at his home. He had just turned 90. We spoke about his role as editor of the encyclopedic UNESCO project that produced the invaluable volumes of the General ...

Watching the Too Early for Birds Tom Mboya edition at the Visa Oshwal auditorium on the last Saturday of January, one thing that stood out was Tom Mboya’s casual greatness. It was possible to trace ...

Prenatal tests are medical investigations undertaken during pregnancy to determine whether there is a probability or possibility of the foetus being born with a certain genetic condition or structural ...

The past month has witnessed an extraordinary assault on press freedom and the democratic right of journalists to hold the most powerful to account. Those attacks were not waged by rogue State House ...

One of the harsh realities that confront the population of my beloved country is food insecurity. Rwanda was listed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations as one of the ...

At the beginning of the COVID-19 era, security agents forcefully picked up those found to be infected and took them to isolation centres. The police also enforced mask mandates, curfews and travel ...

because, Warah had Unsilenced these words.

This issue is about labour organisation, working class struggles and popular protests. 1 It is about the ambivalent role that trade unions play in the organisation of workers and labour struggles as ...

President Trump’s suspension of all aid to Uganda is the latest contingency that the country failed to foresee and make provision for. Landslides, drought and famine happen so frequently one would ...

When Elon Musk marked Donald Trump’s inauguration with what seemed very much like a Nazi salute and was defended by a lobby that claimed to fight anti-Jewish racism, he and his defenders confirmed the ...

Iarivo is one of those typical African urban agglomerations where too many people find themselves crammed in congested dwellings, disillusioned and exhausted by the daily hustle and bustle of trying ...