My generation grew up very close to colonialism but with the false impression that independence had made us exempt from it. We are products of the...
Mwalimu Micere Mugo’s intellectual positions were profoundly political. Personalising Mwalimu’s story removes from it the historical and the political context, yet the point of memorialising those...
When we limit politics to personal morality and ethnicity, we have no space for context, or conversation. But that instinct of educated Kenyans to narrow the...
The Kenyans who are really blinded by religion are not the ordinary ones who are actively religious, but the educated ones who are against religion. It’s...
Critics need to be patient, learn to deal with the ambiguity of the current political moment, and let Kenyans figure out what Ruto’s religion means politically...
Unfortunately, what we go to deposit in the ballot box is more than our vote. At the polling stations, we lay our energy at the feet...
No matter who wins, however, we must resist the absorption of our struggles by the imperial sponge and pick up where we left off before the...
Decoloniality in Kenya may be permitted in Kenyan universities if the Kenya government receives a grant to promote it, or if the British Council or other...
Conservativism may help us to better understand and name the contradiction we are seeing in Kenya, especially in education, and to better read the compliance of...
Life and reality, in and of themselves, are already interdisciplinary. There is therefore need to heal Kenyan higher education so that it reflects life itself. Universities...
The TSC has no mandate, and no qualification, to be peeping into classrooms and making pedagogical decisions. The litany of bureaucracy that it imposes on teachers...
Our contradictions point to a country that is deeply conflicted about itself. We are inauthentic and sadistic, bent on exerting and affirming the power of the...