"If you do that then you will lose the people of the community, and then you will lose the organization.”

There is a revolution in Kenya that parallels the banking system and the broadband revolution but is something entirely its own: the cellular revolution.

A Look Inside A Kenyan Landfill

On December 6 this past year, I was anxious to get to Goma, a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), to witness the nation’s presidential election.

Now you see, in Kenya the most seemingly innocuous organizations, teams, or associations usually have a much darker underbelly than you would expect.

Pamoja FM's and Jah-Army's Day of Change

It’s 4:30 am in Kibera, and a train had fallen off the tracks.

Last week, the Kenyan government officially declared an “offensive military agenda,” an action that many are calling Kenya's first war. Interestingly, this war is not with another nation, but with Al-Shabaab – an extremist militia splinter group of Al-Qaeda that has controlled large parts of Somalia for years.

Kenya's state politics of distraction and marginalization