| Britain's Mau Mau |
Britain's Mau Mau
Kenya was always Britain’s most troublesome African colony because it was neither one thing nor the other.
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| Ukweli Hauogopi tisho wala nguvu za majeshi |
Ukweli hauogopi tisho wala nguvu za majeshi
Brothers and Sisters, we meet at a difficult time for many Kenyans - and perhaps it is appropriate to rise for a moment of silence in honour of those Kenyans, some 1,600 souls, who lost their lives during the post-election period.
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| Dedan Kimathi and Me III: Kionyo Patrol, early days |
Dedan Kimathi and Me III: Kionyo Patrol, early days
For four or five days, while the local population established the Police Station, we slept in the open and suffered the encroachment of cloud that went with our 8,000-foot-high location. Conditions were cold and damp. The eleven of us lay in a circle around the Land Rover that contained our radio link to Meru. Unidentified animal life circled around us, presumably curious about our intrusion into their area. On one occasion Albino, an Acholi who was armed with a Greener...
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| Kenya, still a long way from nationhood |
 | Kenya, still a long way from nationhood
Elections are all about choosing persons who
can best represent the interests of the electorate in government. True
representative democracy dictates that elected leaders have only one duty, to
effectively advocate and defend the interests of their constituents. To act
contrary to this social contract is an abdication of their very raison de etre.
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| Dedan Kimathi and Me |
Dedan Kimathi and Me
In the first installment of a series, Peter Swan recalls his service at an exciting time in Kenya's history.
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 | Kenya Police: The Legacy of Colonialism
The history of policing in Kenya is rife with tales of wanton brutality, complicity of the police force in petty and organised crime as well as the abuse of human rights.
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A brief History of Kenya - Part I
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.
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| Capturing Dedan Kimathi |
Capturing Dedan Kimathi
I was trawling through the blogosphere when I came across this blog here written out entirely in the Gikuyu language.
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Changing names
Its taken me a while to write this article. I
have been mulling over it forever, trying to find the words to introduce it. I
have not found them yet, well until just there.
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| Ending African History |
Ending African 'History'
French President Nicholas Sarkozy addressed
"Africa's Young" in a speech at the University of Cheik
Anta Diop in
Dakar, Senegal, on July 26, 2007. Africans widely and roundly criticized the speech,
little noted by the U.S. media, as racist and condescending.
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| Excuse Me! |
Excuse Me!
Last Sunday marked 200 years since the
abolition of slavery by an act of the British Parliament.
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| The Jaramogi's words of wisdom |
Jaramogi's Words of Wisdom
A book was published in 1967, shortly after our country gained its independence from the British. It had been written by the first Vice-President of our new nation.
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| Kenyatta, God and the modern world |
Jomo Kenyatta, God, and the modern world
1 Aim
This essay searches out one man's sense of purpose, and through his thoughts, reconsiders three historical processes. The man is Jomo Kenyatta. Kenya's first prime minister, then first president, from 1963 until his death in 1978 at over the age of eighty, he has appeared in scores of works of history, politics, and memoir, and is superficially well known.
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| Kenya. histories of hidden war |
Kenya: histories of hidden war
The systemic realities of political violence in Kenya need to be dissected if the post-election crisis is to be understood, says Gérard Prunier.
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| Kenya; ethnicity, tribe and state |
Kenya: ethnicity, tribe, and state
The extensive commentary on Kenya's troubles has tended to blame ancient tribal rivalry, cynical political calculation, or a combination of the two; with the corrupted electoral process seen as providing the unintended catalyst - or worse, the deliberate instigator that awakens latent tribal hostility.
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Kenya, Kenyatta, the Flag is Flying
"Hamjambo wananchi wote pamoja na wageni wetu. Mimi ni Kisoi Munyao ninaozungumza nanyi kutoka kileleni cha Mlima Kenya. Kenya, Kenyatta, bendera imepepea. Kenya popote mwangaza umeenea." (Hello to all citizens and our visitors. I am Kisoi Munyao, speaking to you from the peak of Mt Kenya. Kenya, Kenyatta, the flag is flying. All over Kenya, the light is shining).
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