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The Amnesty International Report 2021/2022 noted that the year 2021 for Kenya was an incubator for greater inequality and instability.

Patrick Gathara/Al Jazeera “At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed,” declared American abolitionist Frederick Douglass in an 1852 speech. He was referring to the futility of arguing the wrongfulness of slavery to a nation whose founding documents declared liberty as a fundamental right. Rather than try to persuade his audience of the obvious, Douglass deployed humour as both a buffer and a weapon against the absurd inconsistencies of enslavement in 19th-century America. But he may as well have been speaking about modern-day Kenya where each new day appear...

Kenya’s satire is under threat Patrick Gathara © Patrick Gathara/Al Jazeera Patrick Gathara/Al Jazeera “At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed,” declared American abolitionist Frederick Douglass in an 1852 speech. He was referring to the futility of arguing the wrongfulness of slavery to a nation whose founding documents declared liberty as a fundamental right. Rather than try to persuade his audience of the obvious, Douglass deployed humour as both a buffer and a weapon against the absurd inconsistencies of enslavement in 19th-centur...

ARTICLE 19 Eastern Africa, Amnesty Kenya and Defenders Coalition strongly condemn the arrest and detention of Edwin Mutemi wa Kiama. We also condemn the Court’s punitive bail terms.