Cartoons
President Uhuru Kenyatta is on his way out, with just four months to the most hotly contested succession presidential elections in recent times. As Kenyatta prepares...
We should make the 25th of February Kenya’s National Day of Shame, the day in 1992 when Kenyan mothers were forced to undress in front of...
How do we channel our emotions when the tyrant is this amorphous cold gel of capitalist corporations and totalitarian organisations?
Kenya is in the throes of another agonised constitutional debate. Proponents of the new push for amendments argue that the time is right to cure deficiencies...
The two tyrannies of ethnic expectation and institutionalised corruption feed off each other and are inextricably connected.
Perhaps, we argue, that if we listen to the popular music of his twenty four year rule can we observe the fingerprint and maybe get a...
I was born on the wrong side, the opposition side. The side that attempted a coup d’état to overthrow President Moi.
There are several reasons why tyrants close the archives of a nation and why those with wealth and power want a nation to “forget and move...
We are a generation that seeks closure yet the death of a father figure only seems to have opened an old wound that we thought had...
We need to break these father ties we have with the ruling elite. Politicians are not our fathers. They are not family. They are representatives who...
An assessment of South Nyanza’s politics suggests that President Moi owed his long rule partly to the Luo elite’s internal divisions and rivalries. The Moi era...