If the role of Jomo Kenyatta’s mausoleum is to remind Kenyans and the world of the significant centrality of his presence in the making of the...
The triple helix of Harambee, hand-outs and handshakes weaves an intractable chokehold on democracy as the unimpeded participation of citizens in the design and execution of...
The Kenyan Organic Intellectuals Network wants to challenge the vague manner elites there deal with the past and take on the challenges of the present.
There is a resistance to imagining people who have committed heinous acts as being capable of expressing humanity, and conversely, of those who show such humanity...
The Kenyatta family, Kenya's first family twice over, has perhaps, one of the deepest investments in Kenya’s economy than any political family. But a global leak...
Seven members of the Kenyatta family are revealed through the Pandora Papers as being variously connected to 11 offshore companies and foundations.
We have become a bandit economy. The gap between rich and poor is enormous in Kenya. That is not just because of their different income, but...
Decolonisation will involve adopting a forward-looking orientation transcending the accidental circumstances of our individual and collective upbringing.
The two tyrannies of ethnic expectation and institutionalised corruption feed off each other and are inextricably connected.
Our various peoples had clear democratic practices in their pre-colonial political formations without the inconvenience of political parties. It is high time we learned from our...
The Kenyan government’s aggressive response to Oscar Sudi’s comments, and the open defiance of Sudi’s supporters, suggest that we might be on the brink of a...
