Declining influence in Africa puts U.S. foreign policy establishment in a state of worry. In late June, protests erupted across Kenya against the government led by William Ruto after it enacted an IMF-dictated finance bill imposing hikes in a regressive sales tax, unloading the full burden of the country’s economic...

As details of state security violence and abuses by British soldiers deployed on training continue to emanate from Kenya, recently declassified files shed light on the historical impact and legacy of the British Army’s presence in the nation. On July 7, 1990, protesters in Nairobi took to the streets...