Every day, men and women pour out of Nairobi slums in Kenya to become the guards, housekeepers and gardeners at the gated houses of people with money. Stanley Gazemba is one of them. He's a gardener.

Eloise King’s documentary The Shadow Scholars takes a deep dive into a multilayered, complex topic: “a twilight academic industry” that has often been covered only from a very specific perspective.

NAIROBI: It’s true that certain historical circumstances made it possible for colonial powers to establish university colleges in West Africa – such as Fourah Bay, Achimota, and Ibadan – much earlier ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — When one of the giants of African literature, Ngugi wa Thiongo, returned here to his homeland after 20 years in exile, he kissed the soil, breathed deep the air, listened to the ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — In a bookstore in Kenya’s capital, the proprietor arranged a shelf exclusively carrying books by Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who died Wednesday in the United States. Bennet Mbata ...

NAIROBI, June 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Langat had a solid maths degree and high hopes for a career in stats when he graduated from a mid-level Kenyan university seven years ago. Things didn't ...

A new documentary has exposed Kenya’s hidden contract-cheating industry, where thousands of "shadow scholars" write essays and theses for students abroad At least 40,000 people in Nairobi alone are ...

Ngugi wa Thiong'o went to jail for writing a play in his mother tongue, Gikuyu. During his year in prison, he wrote his first novel on toilet paper. Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Kenya's celebrated novelist and ...