Joseph Maina
18 March 2026
The Africans dying in Putin’s failing war
The Russian army is luring Kenyans to fight in Ukraine. Processed and sent to the front after minimal training, most of them are dying before their first pay cheque has even cleared
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The remains of the coke-snorting, boozing British empire
In the Kenyan mountains, a collection of colonial-era party houses is slowly rotting away. What should a nation do with the remains of its imperial past?
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The government did nothing, so we’ve done it all ourselves
One neighbourhood in Nairobi is now so commercially successful that it has become a regional trade hub
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