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Robert Amalemba

Robert Amalemba est un journaliste kényan indépendant. Il écrit notamment pour The Standard (Kenya) et le Mail & Guardian (Afrique du Sud).

Report How Kenya’s Seed Ruling Freed Indigenous Farmers from Fear Robert Amalemba · 27 February By invalidating, in November 2025, one of the harshest laws in the region that criminalized the exchange and sale of native seeds, the High Court of Kenya simultaneously freed both the seeds and the farmers.
Beatrice Wangui, an indigenous farmer in Gilgil, a small Rift Valley town, no longer (…)
[Reporting The Tax Revolt Returns—Ruto’s Paranoia vs. Gen Z’s Resistance Robert Amalemba · July 2025 On 7 July, a new wave of protests by Generation Z (‘Gen Z’) engulfed the country to celebrate the 35^th anniversary of the 1990 uprising that led to democracy. At least fifty people died in clashes with the police. Twelve days earlier, these same young people were already marching in remembrance (…)
Investigation Exposing a $2B Scam, Stranded in Exile: Kenya’s Whistleblower Trap Robert Amalemba · May 2025 Like Nelson Amenya, who fled to France after exposing a $2 billion scandal, many Kenyan whistleblowers are under threat. In the absence of laws to protect them, as is the case in some African countries, they often prefer exile to disappear.
Nelson Amenya, just shy of 31, shifts uneasily when (…)