My mind has of late been engrossed in such matters as the Safaricom IPO, the Kenyan cabinet fiasco, and the elitism of Senator Obama. The world, meanwhile, is on the brink of a food ...
Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu, Archbishop of Cape Town made a call to arms yesterday, that we embrace each other as part of the greater human family, a call needed in Kenya now, as much as ...
The President has just announced a new 42 Member Cabinet comprising the lead organ of the Grand Coalition government that follows from the February 28th National Accord.
In celebration of the “Green” Olympics in Beijing, I agreed to be a torch bearer to honor and support the athletes of the world who demonstrate the triumph of the human spirit.
Dani Rodrik, a Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University asks in this video lecture why it is that some countries remain poor while others grow rich.
The Mungiki sect has legitimate historical, political and socio-economic grievances. The use of state might in violence against it members will not make the sect go way, not without radical land and law reforms in Kenya.
Before we delve into the details of my discoveries as stated in Part
One of this article, I would like to first of all highlight a couple
of the definitions I'm working with and sort of get them out of the way before we dive back
into the story.
I go dumpster-diving so you don't have to. The second wave of ODM responses to IDP resettlement has ranged from James Orengo's relatively erudite call for permanent resettlement of Gikuyu IDPs outside the Rift Valley - segregation in other words - to naked incitement of ethnic hatred from Taabu at Kumekucha . In between, we have Job Obonyo at Jukwaa. Lest I convey the wrong impression, let's note that sensible noises have been heard in the RVP recently.
Kenya's newspapers and other media will never miss an opportunity to
raise a moan, especially not against the Mwai Kibaki government. It was
no surprise then to read their righteous laments against the Labour Day freeze
out on wage increases.
I am not one to get caught up in psychological gobbledygook and
cognitive mumbo-jumbo but a recent incident provided my journalistic
sensibilities with sufficient catalytic horror to delve into the world
of 'psyches' and 'social cognitivism'.
US Democrats in the states of Indiana and North Carolina go to the booth today to elect their pary's representative at the US's Presidential Election in November. The race has taken on a new tenor in the last week.
"They used to cheer, curse and swear. Now they just sit and
watch quietly, indifferent and far away. [...] Patrons used to sing, dance,
shout, laugh, fight and vomit on the dirty floor. Not any more.
Unlike previous food shortages that were caused in great part by environmental adversity, the one that has presently got millions of human beings rioting and clutching at their maws in desperate agony is mostly man-made.
The street is called Mtipesa because at the head of
it is an old mkanju (Cashew Nut tree) where the local drug dealers sit
on truck tyre wheels half buried and cemented into the ground.
With by-elections coming up in early June, controversy is brewing in Kenya over whether the Samuel Kivuitu led Electoral Commission of Kenya will be able to run the elections and furnish results acceptable to both sides.
US presidential candidate and Illinois Senator Barack Obama reacted today to speeches and interviews made in the last several days by his former pastor-- the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
The journey to nationhood, for Kenya, begins long before one day in December 1963. A long and tortuous and painful journey that begins with an arbitrary line being drawn on a map.
Last week, American Ambassador Ranneberger pledged direct US government support to the office of the Prime Minister, and invited the ODM head to the United States for a series of high level meetings.
You would not know it to listen to the Kenyan media, but many of your countrymen are unable to return to their homes. Not even now, after the crisis has abated and a political settlement been entrenched.
The controversy over last year’s Form Four examination results will not go away despite the concerted efforts by education administrators to downplay the scandal.
It's a congregation that does not merely preach social justice but acts it out each day, through ministries ranging from housing the homeless to reaching out to those with HIV/AIDS.
The African Union is calling for a continent-wide examination of electoral procedures in light of the deadly election dispute in Kenya, and similar poll-related violence in other countries.
