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The Miraa Question: To Ban or to Ban?
The declaration by the British Home Secretary Theresa May that the UK government will ban khat, popularly known as miraa, have triggered an uproar especially among those directly involved with the...
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Singapore: Leadership Lessons for Kenya and Africa
This photo of Singapore is courtesy of TripAdvisor Singapore, having gained independence from the British the same year as Kenya, is often cited in comparing and contrasting between visionary and...
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The Kenyan-Somali Question
NAIROBI—Throngs of traders haggle and jostle for goods along busy streets, constantly interrupted by the hooting of matatus, local public transport vehicles, and the shouting of pushcart drivers, known...
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The Elephant Graveyard: End of the African Jumbo is Nigh.
The increased poaching in the last three years and the rise of terror activities in the country that crowned by the deadly Westgate Mall attack have led experts in concluding that there is a link...
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Sheng Nation: Intrigues of a Savvy Street Parlance
The East African Community (EAC), which is currently undergoing rocky times with Tanzania complaining of being ignored by Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda, is perhaps the only region in the continent with a...
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Thabo Mbeki: Slaying the Mandela Colossus
With the glowing tributes paid to Nelson Mandela by various world leaders during his memorial and his stature being compared to godlike figures like Martin Luther King Junior and Mahatma Gandhi, the...
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Storms Rages in President Salvar Kiir's Family
In the heat of the South Sudan heat, forces allied to President Salvar Kiir Mayardit and his former deputy Dr Riek Machar are locked in mortal combat for political power with fears that the world’s...
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Unmasking the Mao Myth: Banned Book Says the Dictator Killed More than 70...
Conventional Chinese history claims that Mao Tse-tung (Zedong), known to the world as Chairman Mao, is the national hero who founded the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1920 and People’s Republic of...
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Revoke President Obama's Nobel Prize?
The recent awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to 17 year-old Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai have stirred grumbles in several quarters, with many claiming that she was gifted the “holy grail” simply...
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Clinton's Book "My Life: The Presidential Years" Fits the Bill
It’s a traditional trend in the Western world that when leaders retire they immortalize their reigns by writing memoirs , biographies or autobiographies where they explain the behind-the-scene...
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Give Us a Break on this Gay Nonsense!!!
Since the High Court ruled that the government cannot block the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community from forming an organisation, the contraversial debate of how far Kenya should...
View ArticleWhats in a Name?
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!What’s in a name? that which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweetUttered by Juliet to display his unflinching love for the legendary Romeo in...
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Sibusiso: First Black Man to Climb Mt. Everest
Climbing Mt Everest, the tallest mountain in the world, is the ultimate test of physical, psychological, mental and emotional endurance. What is more, it is one of the most expensive expeditions in the...
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Yahya Jammeh: West African Gaddafi?
Forever adorned in flowing white robes, a fez, dark glasses and clutching a Koran and an African walking stick, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh is feared and loathed by his enemies in equal measure. And...
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Toilet Tales and Loo Blues
Though it’s the most basic facility in a human house hold the toilet is more often than not ignored or treated with disdain. In many African societies its mere mention borders the taboo associated with...
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Secrets of Secret Societies
Secret societies, as the name suggests, have for years remained a subject shrouded in mystery, heresy, gossip and conspiracy theories. This, perhaps, owes to the fact members are sworn to oath of...
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Kenya's Most Contraversial Bloggers
They are tech savvy, controversial, outspoken, fearless and mince no words in their quest to speak their mind. Welcome to the world of young digital rebels whose principal weapon of war is cyberspace....
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State of Nairobi Statues
Statues are pieces of history that immortalize heroes and heroines in mortar, stone, bronze or wood. Their artistic relevance borders poetry or painting hence more often than not their creators are as...
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Time for Africans to Tell their Tales
Africa celebrated 50 years with a grand bash that brought together the usual congregation of heads of state in Addis Ababa. And although the condemnation of ICC and crying over missed dreams of...
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Struggle within a Struggle in Kenya Civil Society
The world watched in awe as a group of activists damped a drove of bloody pigs on the gates of parliament to protest against the legislators clamour for a pay rise. To many Kenyans, and the world at...
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PAWA254: The Artistes' Creative Den
PAWA 254 was a hub established more than a year ago to be the go-to place for artistes in need of inspiration and to create a platform where creatives could use their talents to bring social change....
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The Mkokoteni Economy
They jostle and hustle for roads space with vehicles through the morning traffic as they pull their cargo-laden carts. With pain and strain being their lot from dawn to dusk, mkokoteni pushers are the...
View ArticleTablets Stir Academic Excitement in Kibera Slums School
The pupils are engulfed in a state of pin-drop silence as each of the twenty pupils focus their eyes and index fingers on the luminous screens of the small, green tablets.Although the classroom is made...
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The Prison Priest: 2017 Might Be Kenya's Bloodiest
The story of an old white man, priest or otherwise, working among the Kenyan poor communities is not news. It’s a narrative that dots many villages and slums across Kenya. But what makes Fr. Peter...
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The Prison Grandmothers
Their rapidly failing eyesight have seen the sun rise and set over the high walls of this heavily fortified jailhouse many times than they would care to count. Although they have been here too long...
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