Rows of jars of beans, sorghum, varieties of nightshade and other indigenous seeds sit neatly on wooden shelves in Gilgil’s seed bank awaiting the next planting season. Forty-three-year-old Beatrice ...

Chidi Anselm Odinkalu teaches at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Massachusetts and can be reached at [email protected].

President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s decision to turn to abduction, atrocity, and massacre now threatens the political pre-eminence of Chama Cha Mapinduzi and could rewrite the rules about how the African ...