8 min read. Did President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Jubilee party win the 2013 and 2017 elections fairly, or did a dubious UK-based consultancy company help...
8 min read. I don’t yet know how to make peace with the fact that I had a hand in legitimising probably the worst administration this...
6 min read. The edifice of elections is crumbling in Kenya. As internal divisions eat away at the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission’s shiny surface, taking...
10 min read. January 30th 2018 enters Kenya’s history books alongside September 1st 2017, the day when, for the first time, an election in the country...
14 min read. On November 3, 2017, Kenya’s main opposition party, the National Super Alliance (NASA), spelt out to its supporters the names of three companies...
10 min read. The epic legal battles which have defined Kenya’s presidential contest this year ended, not with the loud bang of the Chief Justice David...
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12 min read. Political culture is an elusive creature. It is pervasive but invisible, like the oxygen that energizes our social organization and economy. It is...
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21 min read. I visited Kawangware, the sprawling ghetto on the outskirts of Nairobi city, days after it had quieted down from a “political showdown” –...
