How do over 3 million Kenyans abroad navigate life in foreign lands? What is it like settling in the respective country? What’s the immigration process like? How’s the food, culture, accents, and language like? How do you navigate racial complexities? How do you keep abreast of news from home? How do you process Kenyan news from that far away? What’s interaction with their foods? events? Local nuances? Residency? Today we are joined by Ms. Dani Maroma from Amsterdam, Netherlands, in our third episode on this podcast series.

The central government has ceaselessly insisted that part of the increase in national debt and spending is due to devolution. However, broken down by numbers the nearly Ksh. 9 trillion debt accrued and mismanaged by the national government cannot be possibly accounted for by mere devolution. and as lawyer Kamotho Waiganjo, analyst Abraham Rugo and economist David Ndii explain to host John Allan Namu, that lie is becoming increasingly harder to sell, which still leaves us with the original question; where did the money go?

Ksh. 7 Trillion later and countless promises, the Kenyan Treasury finds itself stuck with spiralling debt, depressed demand and resultant business downsizing and job losses. The president and Treasury boss have gone on a begging bowl diplomacy and the creditors have put stringent measures that will no doubt worsen the state of household economics. As John-Allan Namu, Economist David Ndii, IBP-Kenya's Abraham Rugo and lawyer Kamotho Waignajo explain, we just might be staring at unpopular choices made necessary by an incompetent regime.

How do over 3 million Kenyans abroad navigate life in foreign lands? What is it like settling in the respective country? What’s the immigration process like? How’s the food, culture, accents, and language like? How do you navigate racial complexities? How do you keep abreast of news from home? How do you process Kenyan news from that far away? What’s interaction with their foods? events? Local nuances? Residency? Today we are joined by Mr Njanja Mwangi from Sydney, Australia, 'the land down under' in our second episode on this podcast series.

The current crop of politicians is demanding for a constitutional change barely 10 years into the 2010 constitutional era. These calls for constitutional change are being made in the middle of spiralling debt, worst pandemic in modern history, and a wobbly economy which makes certain quarters to question the urgency of a referendum amidst these other pressing national issues. The Elephant in conversation with constitutional lawyer Prof. Yash Pal Ghai.

The year 2020 Marks the 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (Beijing Platform for Action), a pivotal agenda towards achieving gender equity. Significant progress have been made to this end and as Crystal Simeoni, Director at Nawi: Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective and Memory Kachambwa of FEMNET clarify major work is still yet to be done that in the end can ensure equal access to justice, equity, mobility and resources.

The Kenyan coastal strip has had a 1000 year history, rich culture and heritage that has been overshadowed by the colonial entrenchment of Nairobi. and as scholars Munga Mwachiro and Muturi Katana explain, for coasterians the competing reality of their Kenyan identity, therefore, lies at the heart of contestation around language, history, pride, and stereotypes that have in recent years ended up in controversy.

The 2010 Kenyan constitution has been hailed as a governing masterpiece. Now in light of possible changes through the BBI referendum critical questions about the necessity of amendments have been fronted. As Prof. Issa Shivji says constitutions don't make revolutions, rather revolutions make a constitution and that sequence is rarely upstaged.

The hustlers narrative is simply the tag thrown at Kenya's current class struggle which has been at play since the hut tax in 1920. The successive Kenyan elites have failed to reform the colonial political economy and inclusive despite its gradual decay. The class struggle under the hustlers narrative is now pitting those whom the system was never meant to serve vs those who feel entitled to run the country. as narrated by Joe Kobuthi and Darius Okolla.

For a country laden with lots of unresolved high and low profile homicides, the need for better forensic models, better cooperations, and a seamless judicial system will expedite a closure for families. Even then that will demand a more deliberate involvement of communities, the indictment of culprits and engendering a culture of valuing human life and our approaches to justice. A conversation by activist Njoki Gachanja, state pathologist Johannssen Oduor, lawyer Kariuki Karanja, state legal advisor Emily Chweya, and police oversight director David Nderitu.