What exactly did Forest and Wildlife Minister Noah Wekesa mean when he said the Mau evictees should go back to where they came from? Is he implying that the State is planning mass deportation of the ...

Are our leaders deliberately exploiting the vulnerability of the poor? This seemed the case in at least two recent incidents involving mass evictions of poor families from government land. In Kibera, ...

As the colonial forces were preparing to leave Kenya, in the days leading up to its independence from Britain in 1963, they were given one last order. Before they left, they took with them crates upon ...

Nairobi — It's going to be a Christmas of political intrigue, as MPs on Sunday stepped up the war of words over the conservation of Mau forest and deal-making ahead of an election which is still three ...

The Mau Mau uprising began in 1952 as a reaction to inequalities and injustices in British-controlled Kenya. The response of the colonial administration was a fierce crackdown on the rebels, resulting ...