Political culture is an elusive creature. It is pervasive but invisible, like the oxygen that energizes our social organization and economy. It is also colorless and odorless, the carbon monoxide that suffocates the public interest. Like the quanta of particle physics, it inhabits a difficult to pinpoint state straddling legal-constitutional rationality and people’s behavioral orientations. […]
Views on devolution tend to be of two types. For some, devolution is the best thing since hotel buffets invented sliced ugali that you can eat with cutlery. It has led to new roads, new dispensaries and greater self-determination. For others, we are well on our way to Sodom and Gomorrah, with corrupt county officials […]
I visited Kawangware, the sprawling ghetto on the outskirts of Nairobi city, days after it had quieted down from a “political showdown” – a euphemism for brutal ethnic fighting- following the October 26 repeat election. The air was sombre. There was an uncanny feeling that this was not your normal, bustlingly busy Kawangware. The people […]
The Elephant gives a preview of the Shades of Benga book, the history and the spread of Kenyan music as well as the role of media in promoting Kenya's popular sound. Aghan Odero, Theatre and Screen Director is in conversation with Tabu Osusa, Author, Director at Ketebul Music and Paul Kelemba a Cartoonists and Music Researcher.
The Elephant gives a preview of the Shades of Benga book, the history and the spread of Kenyan music as well as the role of media in promoting Kenya's popular sound. Aghan Odero, Theatre and Screen Director is in conversation with Tabu Osusa, Author, Director at Ketebul Music and Paul Kelemba a Cartoonists and Music Researcher.
The Elephant gives a preview of the Shades of Benga book, the history and the spread of Kenyan music as well as the role of media in promoting Kenya's popular sound. Aghan Odero, Theatre and Screen Director is in conversation with Tabu Osusa, Author, Director at Ketebul Music and Paul Kelemba a Cartoonists and Music Researcher.
The Elephant gives a preview of the Shades of Benga book, the history and the spread of Kenyan music as well as the role of media in promoting Kenya's popular sound. Aghan Odero, Theatre and Screen Director is in conversation with Tabu Osusa, Author, Director at Ketebul Music and Paul Kelemba a Cartoonists and Music Researcher.
Africans a-liberate Zimbabwe I’n’I a-liberate Zimbabwe. So sang the late, great, Jamaican reggae star, Bob Marley in 1979, just a year before the country was finally won its independence from white rule. Today, with Robert Mugabe forced to resign as President after being fired by his party and with Zimbabwe about to inaugurate a new […]