How do we channel our emotions when the tyrant is this amorphous cold gel of capitalist corporations and totalitarian organisations?
All through history prophets have oscillated between one extreme end, the highest level of political leadership — what Plato called “the Philosopher King”, the ruler of...
There is a world of githeri people living at the bottom of Nairobi’s urban existence, homeless or living in squalor. But the existential threat posed by...
Corruption in Africa is not simply an act of giving or receiving a bribe; it is a form of “primitive accumulation” or “accumulation by dispossession” that...
When I thought about it, it dawned on me, that everyone was guilty of some offence. If you were driving and in motion, a traffic violation....
To Mzee, It is not your fault. You did not fail to lead. You had no thought. You did not fail to protect. You had no...
The illusion of sovereignty and state arising out of territories created in 1885 is fast disintegrating. The false political medium in Africa modelled after the Westphalian...
We cope with the oppressive system of Capitalism by eating our children’s futures before eating them alive. Grace Ogot captures us in her 1968 classic Tekayo,...
Who am I? Am I “Catholic”? Am I “Christian”? Am I Kikuyu? Or am I “Kenyan”? Or am I all of them at once? Or the...
And the loser of #ElectionsKE2017 is… The People. The poor plebeian people of Kenya time and time again are worked in to a political fervour of...