For the last few months, students at the university where I teach have been pitted in a standoff against we the faculty and administration. From the...
It is 8:30 am on a chilly Saturday morning punctuated with light rain showers. I prompt the driver to reverse the pickup truck into the entry...
My dad was born in 1946. His dad, my grandfather, was born in 1918. Both of them were born at the tail end of wars that...
Reading recent submissions to The Elephant by Millennials, one gets the impression that there is a generational battle going on in Kenya. It is portrayed as...
The representation of women in political leadership globally hovers around 20% of most governments, parliaments, heads of state, according to United Nations documentation. Between 1995 and...
A stuck story is like a baby who does not want to be born; keeping you in a long painful state of labour. Now I understand...
Millennials have been blamed for pretty much everything that is going on wrong in the world today. Marriage is failing, thanks to hook-up culture and Tinder’s...
Allow me the joy of teaching you a new word today. The word is ‘duru’. Most of my millennial peers, where I come from, have an...
“We must begin to tell our young There’s a world waiting for you This is a quest that’s just begun” ~ Nina Simone, Young, Gifted and...
Generational conflict is perennial. Everywhere, young people shoulder the blame of everything wrong with the world. In recent years, the world has been moaning over the...
