Kenyan Pundit

[please share] Last week the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Bar Association (IBA) jointly launched a six-month campaign to increase the number of women lawyers authorised to represent defendants or victims at the International Criminal Court (ICC). In this first phase the campaign will focus on African countries. To date, women counsel are [...]

Kwani Trust invites you to submit short stories of between 3000-8000 WORDS, that focus on Africa and the experiences of African people, with a particular focus on Africans born after 1978. The theme of the call out is ‘THE AFRICA I LIVE IN’. Published authors will be paid a fee of $100. If you are [...]

I spent the last few days at the World Economic Forum Africa in Dar-es-Salaam. The larger plenary sessions mainly comprised of platitudes and a restating of the challenges facing Africa – I think the format just doesn’t allow for anything else. The smaller sessions I managed to attend were interesting, as in past WEF conferences [...]