What we measured
We loaded theelephant.info in a real browser, accepted the cookie banner, and scored what came back. Every number below is on a 0–10 scale where 10 is best.
- Ad restraint
- 9
- Design
- 8
- Reach
- 5
- Editorial
- 7
- Signal-to-noise
- 6
- Access
- 10
- Cadence
- 6
- Independence
- 8
Ad entities counted on the homepage after accepting the cookie banner
Clutter, hierarchy, typography and whitespace, scored from our screenshot
Tranco rank for the registrable domain, capped where the feed is a section
Curated judgement of the writing, not a measurement
How much of the feed is the thing you subscribed for
How much is readable without a paywall or a login
Whether it publishes often enough to be worth a slot
Ownership, and how much it constrains what gets covered
What it looks like
Our screenshot of theelephant.info, taken with the cookie banner cleared.
Latest from The Elephant
Straight from the feed. This is what the ticker would be showing you right now.
- Ol Kalau and the Business of Blood: Naming Kenya’s Political Economy of Violence
- Beyond Vision 2030: When Borrowed Fantasies Meet a Venal Political Class
- Notes on the Nairobian Hustle in the Age of the Bottom-Up Economy
- US-Iran Ceasefire: America is at a Crossroads
- Shattering the Singapore Illusion in Kenya: Vision 2030 Was Just the Trailer, 2060 Is the Film
- Burkina Faso and the Return of Political Economy
- Africa’s Last Philosopher King
- Weather Forecasts: The Last Mile Is Where Lives Are Lost… or Saved
- Wambua Wa Kawive: Three Books and A Play
- “I Went to France” and Other Tales from Majuu
- The Legacy of Garang and Uganda, the Sub-Imperial Pivot State
- The Sovereign Skin: How Les Léopards reclaimed the World Stage
- Reflections on the Financialization of Politics in Africa
- Gen Z and the Realpolitik of Kenya’s 2027 Election
- The Zein Abubakar Memorial
Where it sits in Ideas & Longform
- #32 Palladium Magazine73.5
- #33 The Point Magazine73.5
- #34 The Elephant73
- #35 Blackbird Spyplane72.5
- #36 Culture Study72.5