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THE STANDARD By Michael Ndonye | December 18th 2020 at 01:22:35 GMT +0300 Activist Boniface Mwangi being confronted by a police officer in a past protest. [FIle, Standard] Many Kenyans cannot tell apart activism from politics and vice versa. Sometimes activists launch offensives against political elites. Other times, and these are many, we have witnessed activism sleep with politics. Whenever activism compromises, the ‘third sector’ aka civil society, suffers. It is a tragedy of capture of the activism in this land.   Last week, I visited my alma mater Egerton University, for a saunter...

Journalists caught in the crosshairs, dissent brutally quashed, and big wins for African creatives and media stalwarts Ugandan opposition politician Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, lays flowers for those killed while protesting his arrest, at the headquarters of his opposition party, Kampala, Uganda, 21 November 2020, STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images November in Africa: A free expression roundup produced by IFEX’s Regional Editor Reyhana Masters, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region. An audio discussion about this piece is availabl...