Passive, subservient learning is characteristic of many students in many institutions of higher learning in Kenya. Questioning lecturers on content and challenging the existing modes of teaching is considered rude and disrespectful. Many students cower at a sharp glance or a strict word from a professor. Not so for Dennis Makau, a third year student [...]

A campaign to end South Africa’s ritual bare hand bull killing is in top gear spearheaded by animal welfarists across the African continent. Barely two months before another bull is torn apart to die a terrified and agonizing death, the South African Parliament has been petitioned to denounce this annual ritual as unbecoming of the [...]

The Kenyan government has proposed changes in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) trade rules ahead of the forthcoming Conference of Parties meeting in March 2011 in Qatar.
Supported by several other African governments the Kenyan government hope to block any attempts by other countries to gain CITES [...]

A major Africa animal welfare event is scheduled for this September in Kenya’s Capital City -Nairobi. The first of its kind, the Pan African Seminar on alternatives to animal experiments in education and training will bring together animal campaigners, policy makers, curriculum developers, scientists, teachers, laboratory technicians and students.
The importance of this seminar jointly [...]

Around 100 million of working animals- horses, donkeys, oxen and mules are the engines that power the developing world by laboring on its farms and roads. Hundreds of millions of poor people depend on these animals for their livelihoods. They transport everything from people, produce and building materials to food, water and even fuel.
They are [...]