Kenyan and South African users clashed online on X over ownership, infrastructure and culture, trading memes and statistics in a feud sparked by Zimbabwe debate.

In the heart of Nairobi, where the traffic is a permanent resident and the"hustle" is a religion, a new kind of currency has taken over. It’snot the Shilling, and it’s certainly not Bitcoin. It’s the ...

The board says memes that have the faces or identities of Kenyan citizens are the intellectual property of the people pictured or videographed, and before companies use them in adverts or visibility ...

We know that there have been meme wars in America, and that Donald Trump has been called the “first president meme’d into office.” But in Kenya—a country where one of the only feasible forms of ...

Kenya’s President William Ruto speaks at a climate summit in the US. Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for The New York Times Seemingly disillusioned with the country’s leadership, Kenyans have taken to new ...

A Russian couple’s daring climb in New York turned into a Kenyan social media sensation within days. On July 1, 2026, Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus scaled the spire of the Empire State Building.