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The African Trumpet — 346 episodes
Mwabili Mwagodi – Occupy Churches Two Years On: A Status Report
Mitchelle Oyuga – The Universe of SRHR: Your Body’s Bill of Rights
Bishop. Francis Omondi – The Curious Case of Kenyan Theologies
Rev. Carol Kiarie: Public Theology is the Future of the Church
Gleh the Poet – Public Life Needs Urgent Reforms
Insecurity of Expulsion: Trauma and Unbelongingness in Amin's Uganda
Jeff Ian - Youth and the Voter Question
John Githongo - Kenya Kwanza: The War on Graft Is Dead - Corruption’s Seductive Comeback?
Malong Awan – East Africa’s Need For Cross-Cutting Solidarity
The Latent Fissures Dividing Our Worlds
Mark Antony: May the New Native Rise Up
Kwame Owino: Fuel Hikes and False Promises: An Economy That Refuses to Grow for the People
Trevor Munga: Consequence of Elite Failure in Kenya
Andréas Otieno: The Generational Vote Takes Shapes
Dr Willy Mutunga - Kenya's Baronial Class: Architects of Perpetual Backwardness
Prof. Wandia Njoya: Kenya's Crisis: Our Elites Are Not Organic to Society
Dr. Abraham Rugo - Debt, Elections, and Budgets: A Public Finance Heist
Mary Gichuki: Citizens in Survival Mode
Gen Z Baddie: What Becomes of The Youth Vote?
Young Men in Kenyan Politics
7 Years Later: Millennial Reflections on Africa's Lost Decade of Promise
Muthoni Drummer Queen: "We the People Shall" - Echoes of Revolution in the Streets
Agneta Asitwa: Redefining the Millennial Conundrum
Hezbon Bahati: Whither the African Millennial?
2025 on the Spotlight
Shakira Wafula: The Evolving Path of the Active Citizen
Edwin Shamir: We Are the Now..and the Future
Sophie Mugure: Building the Future Gen Z Wants
Joshua Okayo: The Gen Z Advocate
Keith Ang'ana: Keeping the Gen Z Dream Alive
Okiya Omtatah: Your Rights, Use Them or Lose Them
The Youth Need Both Formal and Informal Platforms - Prof. Maria Nzomo
The Levers of Power Are Reckoning – Prof. Karuti Kanyinga
Activism Is a Relay, Not a Sprint - Martha Karua
Gen Zs Forced a Reckoning for All the Levers of Power - L. Muthoni Wanyeki
The Gen Z Moment Has Redefined Power and Politics - Atsango Chesoni
Governments Thrive on Good Ideas - John Khaminwa
Reflecting on Protest and Power Among Kenyan Gen Zs – Gitobu Imanyara
History as Society’s Warning System – Pheroze Nowrojee
The Generation Question in Kenya’s Evolving Protest
Reclaiming Black Girl Magic Through African Spiritual Traditions
Street Worship: The Pulse of Nairobi City
The Gathering Storm: Europe Readies Itself for Another War
A Review of Kenya’s Governance Landscape
Rights of Persons with Disabilities are Human Rights Too
Gen X Vs Gen Z Protests: A Fireside Chat
The Nuts and Bolts of Constitutional Oversight
Dealing with Post-Protest Stress: Part II
Dealing with Post-Protest Stress: Part I
The Evolution of Protests in Kenya
Inatuhusu: We Belong in the Streets
Fact-Checking the Kenyan Protests
Gen Z Protests: A Revolution Aided by Technology
On This Father's Day
Madaraka For Whom: A Gen Z Perspective
Inatuhusu: Mind Your Health
The Political Economy of Ruto-Raila Handshake
Entitled or Woke? Exploring Gen Z's Perceptions and Realities
Gen Z: Flipping the Script or Just Hitting 'Ctrl+Z'? Exploring the Power and Potential of the Next World-Changers
Okiyah Omtata: We Are Paying For Non-Existent Debts
Finance Bill: High Court Says, No
Finance Bill 2023 - Whose Finance Whose Bill
The Politics Of Love And Sex
Kenyan Youth, Economy, And Political Hope
A Hustler's Finance Bill
Finance Bill 2023 - A Prowling Economic Hitjob
Who Will Rescue Our Political Economy
Alcohol Central: Don't Drink Gachagua's Myth
Gov. Nderitu Muriithi: You Can’t Divorce the Economy From Politics
Land, Kenya's Unfinished Revolution
The Two Decade Long War on Corruption
Mental Health Dimensions In Governance
Civil Society Needs a Reboot?
CBC: An Education Philosophy or a Curriculum Debate
Muthoni Wanyeki: Unpacking the Civil Society
David Ndii: The Politics-Civil Society Nexus
Breaking the Two-Ethnic Political Structure in Kenya
Elections and the Frustrated Young Voter
Auditing Kenya's Taxation System
Who Is in Charge of Agriculture in Kenya?
Digital Ideas for Kenya From Estonia
Tax Justice and Its Burden on Africa
The NRT Land Court Case In Isiolo
The Gender Question For Pastoralist Women
The State Of The Community Land Act
From Shifta To Alien - Weaponized Identity In The North
Unpacking Negotiated Democracy
Insecurity Is Hurting Education
The Youth and the Election Question
Cultural Restitution: Bring Back the Stolen - Part I
Is Farming in Kenya Profitable?
The Politics of Seeds
Addressing the Drought in Northern Kenya
Northern Kenya Defies Decades of Exclusion
How The Horn Of Africa Handles Elections
Do Political Parties Offer Any Value?
What Are the Alternatives to Elections?
Are Elections Even Necessary?
Hunger and the World Food Day
Jobs, Incomes and the 2022 Elections in Kenya
The Organizing Questions of the Upcoming Elections
How Kenya Educates Its Young
How Storytelling Shapes Our National Image
Kenya: How Collective Trauma Tethers Our Public Imagination
Kenya: The State vs the Nation
BBI Vs The Doctrine Of Basic Structure
Defending the Mwananchi Constitution in Kenya
Kenya: Shifting Sentiments in an Electoral Year
Reviewing the Electoral Calendar in Kenya
The Youth and the Referendum Question - Part III
The Youth and the Referendum Question - Part II
The Youth and The Referendum Question - Part I
Somalia’s Bold Political Experiment
Inside Somali Elections - Part III
Inside Somali Elections - Part II
Inside Somalia Elections - Part I
A Referendum and Generational Mobility
BBI Politics and the Fate of Counties
Inside Ethiopia's Election - Part III
Inside Ethiopia's Election - Part II
Inside Ethiopia's Election - Part I
The Contest Between BBI and Katiba 2010 - Part II
The Contest Between BBI and Katiba 2010 - Part I
When a Million Ants Come Marching In
Why Marine Lives Matter
Why Insect Lives Matter
Celebrating Africa Day - Part I
Inside Somaliland Elections
Gaza, Israel and the Evolving Middle East
Democratic Recession In The Horn of Africa
Confronting Kenya's Social Inequality - Part III
Confronting Kenya's Social Inequality - Part II
Confronting Kenya's Social Inequality - Part I
Minimum Tax Will Kill SMEs in Kenya
Let My People Vote: Critical Questions - Part II
Let My People Vote: Critical Questions - Part I
2020 - 2021 Elections in the Horn and East Africa - Part III
2020 - 2021 Elections in the Horn and East Africa - Part II
2020 - 2021 Elections in the Horn and East Africa - Part I
Ethiopia: Let My People Vote - Part II
Ethiopia: Let My People Vote - Part I
Uganda: Let My People Vote - Part II
Uganda: Let My People Vote - Part II
Uganda: Let My People Vote - Part I
Somalia: Let My People Vote - Part II
Somalia: Let My People Vote - Part I
Tanzania: Let My People Vote - Part II
Tanzania: Let My People Vote - Part I
The Question Of Language III
The Question Of Language II
The Question Of Language - Part I
Nigeria: A Brief History of Revolutions - Part III
Nigeria: A Brief History of Revolutions - Part II
Nigeria: A Brief History of Revolutions - Part I
Sudan: A Country at Crossroads - Part V
Sudan: A Country at Crossroads - Part IV
Sudan: A Country at Crossroads - Part III
Sudan: A Country at Crossroads - Part II
Sudan: A country at Crossroads - Part 1
Voices From Diaspora: Victoria N'geno in Doha, Qatar
It's the Economy Stupid - Two Years Later
The Evolving Attitudes on the Constitution
Voices From Diaspora: Dani Maroma in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Where Did the Money Go - Part 2
Where Did the Money Go - Part 1
Voices From Diaspora: Njanja Mwangi in Sydney, Australia
Auditing the Case for a Referendum
Mobility, Equity and Justice Across Generations
Unpacking the Kenyan Coast
Cultures Shape Constitution
The Hustler Narrative as Class Struggle
The National Coroner Service Act: Mapping the Future
The National Coroner Service Act: Weaponizing Poverty
The National Coroner Service Act: Whose Act?
Voices in Diaspora: Sharon Inuani in Germany
Martha Karua: Corruption Has Been Legalized and Sanctioned
Kenya, CIA, MI6 And Counterterrorism
The Economy and the Virus
Food Security in the Horn of Africa
Kenya's Economy and Higher Learning Adjust to Pandemic
Fr Gabriel Dolan: What Happened to Social Justice in the Church?
The Ongoing Economic Meltdown In Kenya
Ngala Chome: Terror and Security in the Age of Coronavirus
Revisiting the Education Question
Mutemi Wa Kiama: The State's Machinery of Violence
Prof. Tiyambe Zeleza: Coronavirus Widens Global Disparities
COVID-19 and the Evolution of Market Dynamics
Patrick Gathara: Will Corona Overthrow the Colonial Order
Prof. Elisio Macamo: We Need to Rethink Lockdowns
Muthoni Drummer Queen: Art In The Age Of Corona
Dr Chambi Chachage On Tanzania's Controversial COVID-19 Policy
Dr Alex Awiti: It Will Be a Plus-COVID Not a Post-COVID World
Dr Adia Benton: Ebola To COVID-19, How Interventions Become A Way Of Life
The Urban - Rural Divide in the COVID-19 Responses
Prof. Joseph Stiglitz - The Economic Policy Options for Fixing the COVID-19 Downturn
Godwin Murunga - The Evolution Of A Pandemic
Zein Abubakar - The Fate of the Kenyan State Under COVID-19
Rahma Hersi - The State of Islamic Banking Under COVID-19
Prof. Larry Diamond - The New Normal for Global Democracy With COVID-19
Prof. Karuti Kanyinga: Evolution of Political Contestation Under COVID-19
Dr. Ato Kwamena Onoma: How Public Memory is Shaping COVID-19 Responses
Brian Kagoro: African COVID-19 Response Assessment
Dr. Mordecai Ogada: Conservation Politics in Light of Pandemics
Part 2: Prof. Jomo K. Sundaram: Pandemic Lessons From Asia
An Insider's Take on Kenya's Public Health Sector
Rev. Canon Omondi: Theology In The Age Of Coronavirus
Dr. Wandia Njoya: Education in The Age of Coronavirus
Dr. David Ndii: The Political Economy of Coronavirus
Part 1: Prof. Jomo K. Sundaram: Pandemic Lessons From Asia
Kisumu: Nyanza Struggles Locally while Posturing Nationally
Law Society of Kenya Chair Nelson Havi Speaks on Curfew
Laikipia - Tradition, Tourism and Distancing
Mombasa: Virus, Philanthropy and Economic Tailspin
Politics, Food, and Defying Curfews
Millennial Speak: Part 1
Nyayo: The Passing of a Father Figure
Nyayo House: Moi's Dark Dungeons
Deconstruction of Gengetone Music
Sick of this System
How Not To Fight Corruption (The Kikuyu Conundrum)
The Reason You Are Broke Is the Government
A Story of Corruption, Kenyan Politicians and a Few Italians
The Wild Wild North
Ratchetness and Bodily Freedoms
Food Trends: It's Our Turn to Eat
The Case For Homeschooling
Counting the Dead
China in Africa
Kenyan Banks
When Your Mind Betrays You
Forging Our Own Way
Faith at the Cliff
Asking to Be Heard
No Single Narratives
Actually, What Is Terrorism?
One Large Extraction Industry
A Messy and Unbroken Path into the Future
Testimonies of an Evil State
Bad Actors
Rewriting His-Story to Her-Story
The Contradictions of an African Faith
Peeling the Layers of Mental Health
For the Cups of Tea
The Myth of the White Knight
Closet Full of Skeletons
Fever Cartels
Nairobi’s Security Dragnet
The Conversation Around Sexual Abuse and Mental Illness
Geometric Circles, Zigzags and Waves: The Anatomy of a Kenyan ID
Tea and Bread Showed You Were Prospering
When Your Country Does Not Love You, You Have No Obligation To Love It Back
Accept and Move On: The Handshake’s Hollow Cure for Decades of Communal Loss and Grief
We Leave Our House to Go Home
Murder Is the Escalated and Final Act of Violence
It Was the Most Traumatising Thing I've Ever Gone Through
You Only Leave When Home Is the Mouth of a Shark
Just Do It!
I Know It Was The Blood
Red Earth: The Killing of Carilton David Maina
Tanzania: Warm on the Inside, Cold at Exit
The Making of a Fatherless Nation
No African Women Allowed: Equality in the Age of Terrorism
Erased: That Farm in Africa, at the Foot of the Ngong Hills
‘Why Are You Running Running?’ Losing My Freedom on Nairobi’s Badass Streets
Trapped: My Twelve-Hour Ordeal in DusitD2
Mwalimu Nyerere Speaks on the Wind of Change in 1991
Navigating the Hard Realities of the Economy: Aly Khan Sachu's take
Debt, Austerity and the Implications: Aly Khan Sachu opines
A Business Insider's take on the Regional Economy
Jobs, Youth and Industry 4.0: Aly Khan Sachu's perspectives
The State of the Economy: Aly Khan Sachu speaks
Reclaiming my Blackness as an African Feminist
REGIONAL INTERGRATION: Kizza Besigye opines
Kizza Besigye on the state of fiscal discipline in Uganda
Kizza Besigye on electoral justice in Uganda
Kizza Besigye on alternative forms of organisation and debt
ODD LOVE AFFAIR OR POLITICAL PROBLEM: Kizza Besigye speaks
We Marched, Now What?
Confessions Of A Soccer Widow
The Agony of the Untold Story
The Measure of a Man
The Danger Of Kisumu's Single Story
To be a Millennial is to Believe in Freedom
EDUCATION REFORM: Dr. Wandia opines
Dr. Wandia Njoya: Kenya’s free education quandary
CURRICULUM REFORM: Dr. Wandia’s take
Examination, violence and the colonial logic
SET UP TO FAIL: The state of the education system in Kenya
Why Kenya Power is a Monopoly
The Class Action Suit Against Kenya Power
Understanding your Kenya Power bill
The Monopoly in the Energy Sector
The Unreliable Judiciary of the Past
The War Between the Judiciary and the Executive
Judiciary at a Crossroad
REMEMBERING KOLBIYOW: A requiem service for a young Kenyan soldier
REMEMBERING KOLBIYOW: A village loses a son
VIOLENCE OF POWER: How reforms failed to muzzle the political establishments
Central Kenya's Biting Poverty
You Were Only Seven
The Grief Of Freedom That Never Came
Counting People In A Broken Health System
The Structure of Politics in Kenya
THE PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM The System That Doesn't Hold
Kenyans Prefer a Parliamentary System
The Lure of Benevolent Dictatorship
The Telephone Conversation
The Announcement
A Healthy Serving of Reality
A Conversation with Visual Fine Artist and Painter Collins Odour
Fishers-of-Men: A Lamentation by Sam Opondo
Behind the Makueni Healthcare Revolution
From ‘Rust Belt’ to ‘Dust Veldt’: Waiting for an African Trump
NATIONAL INSECURITY: The state of Kenya's security apparatus
Dear Pendo
Uhuru ni Moi
No Kenya No Peace
Part 3: Are Public Intellectuals Pressured to Conform to Expectations?
Part 2: The Roles, Responsibilities and Agendas of Public Intellectuals
Part 1: Who is a Public Intellectual?
Anarchy in Kenya – Political Risk
Edward Ouko The Man
Prof Yash Ghai: Kenya's Constitutional Conundrum - A Way Out
You Are FIVE Times More Likely To Be Killed By Police Than By Criminals
David Ndii: It’s The Economy, Stupid
You Are Not Us
Knowing Your Place
A Conversation with Musician and Artivist Ndungi Githuku
ACTIVISM: Using Music to Change the World
The Real Kenyan Crisis
DEMOCRATIC SHIFTS: Kenyans have refused to be guided
The Sheesha Phenomenon
Dr. Willy Mutunga's Retirement Plan
Dr. Willy Mutunga on Devolution
Dr. Willy Mutunga on Extrajudicial Killings
Dr. Willy Mutunga's Challenge to the Kenyan Youth
Dr. Willy Mutunga: The toxic nature of Kenya's tribal politics
The Metamorphosis of Mungiki: From A Movement to a Militia?
Frantz Fanon the Philosopher
THE VIRUS THAT PLAGUES KENYA: Dr. Willy Mutunga Opines
We Are Afraid Because We Know Ourselves
The Ideology of Uthamaki
Kenya on the Edge
Songs of Freedom: National Anthems from East Africa
Frantz Fanon the Sage
Drugs - A Failure of Imagination