Month: September 2016

As a Kenyan, it is taboo to comment on the issue of the President’s and his Deputy’s trial at the International Criminal Court at The Hague. In Kenya as is always the case, there is an ethnic prism through which Read More …

The face of tyranny is evolving on the African continent. Sure enough, we might have fewer; Mobutu’s, Bokasa’s, Babaginda’s, Moi’s, Gadhafi’s and other men synonymous with despotism at the helm of African Seats of power, but that does not mean Read More …

Kenya’s politics is always in a state of flux; we seem to think about politics every other time. If it is not the elections we are thinking about, it is the referendum, what will happen when the president goes to Read More …

Awhile back, back at the start of tumult in Ukraine, I waddled into one of the most protracted social media debates of my life.  See am not Russian, am African, as African as they come from Kenya. I do however Read More …

Recent economic history suggests that Kenya has made quite substantial leaps forward. Well, that history goes back to the year 2002 with the presidency of Mwai Kibaki. Within a ten year period, economic growth has tripled, has come off the Read More …

Al Jazeera aired the highly talked about, ‘Inside Kenya’s Death Squads’ feature this week. Straight off the Ross Kemp rule book that one, from the special effects, the grotesqueness, and the human tragedies imbued throughout torturous images of cold blood Read More …

Kenyans have now woken up and smelt the coffee, and they now know too well that our ‘new governance system’, aka governors flying around in chartered choppers and crisscrossing the country in top range Range Rovers is now costing us Read More …

I am in Tanzania, I see young, aspirational Africans, just like myself. Apart from my Kenyan Swahili, which by the way is heavily adulterated with slang, you cannot pick me out as a foreigner. Isn’t it amazing, that you cannot Read More …

Uhuru often makes the right noises, but I have rarely seen him do the right things. There is no doubt that Uhuru is blessed with the gift of a gab, a gift he often puts to good use a tad Read More …

In the past order of things, the president was the paramount chief of the land, a patriarch (Baba wa Taifa), who could neither be challenged substantively by the courts nor Parliament. His word was law and policy and those who Read More …