Insights

Explore deep dives, field stories, and thought pieces from voices across Eastern Africa who are pushing for digital rights, tech accountability, and civic freedom.

Data Protection Day 2026: Why Kenya’s Digital Future Depends on Trust

Every year on 28 January, the world marks Data Protection Day. At first glance, it…

Kenya’s Privatization Act 2025

Kenya’s Privatization Act, 2025 is widely framed as a fiscal reform—an effort to raise revenue,…

THE BILL THEY DIDN’T SIGN

Africa’s young people are inheriting a debt crisis they had no hand in creating. The…

THE INVISIBLE BALLOT

THE INVISIBLE BALLOT How Silicon Valley’s algorithms are quietly deciding Africa’s elections — and why…

AI IN PUBLIC SERVICES

The Algorithmic State: Will AI Serve the Citizen or the Surveyor? By Speak Up Afrika…

Remote Work is Africa

Remote Work Could Power Africa’s Growth—If Governments Get the Rules Right Africa is exporting a…

Africa’s Youth Majority Is Locked Out of Power

Africa’s political economy faces a structural contradiction. Across much of the continent, more than 70%…