Author: Debunk Editorial
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For Rasna, From the Comrades
When Debunk Media launched its op-ed section, Public Square, in October 2022, Rasna Warah was the first columnist to officially join the team. Alongside the op-eds, Rasna, now battling cancer, did more writing, but in the form of Q&As. This is how Rasna did another first for Debunk, by pioneering Debunk Speaks To, Debunk’s Q&A…
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Dear Mr Odinga, Allow Gen Z To Stand On Your Shoulders, Do Not Stand On Theirs!
As someone who prides themselves as being an avid student of history
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Does William Ruto Know What He’s Dealing With?
As the #Occupy movement led by Gen Z has risen, floundered and risen again over the last fortnight or so, President William Ruto’s various reactions – first calling the #OccupyParliament brigade treasonous; then doubling down and feigning a call for national dialogue; before quickly enacting a Twitter Space which has resulted in nothing more than…
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A Love Letter To Gen Z
Dear Gen Z, Please allow us to start off this epistle by referring to you by your proper epithet at this monumental juncture in our country’s history: our leaders. Yes, you are our leaders, and we write to you this love letter to express our love ❤️, solidarity ✊🏿 and pure admiration 🤗. We know…
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Jesus Wept. William Lied.
It is June 2022. Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for the Treasury Ukur Yatani has presented President Uhuru Kenyatta’s final budget to Parliament. To finance the ambitious KSh 3.3 trillion budget (a 10 percent increase from the previous one), Yatani, through the Finance Bill 2022, has proposed an avalanche of new taxes – including a 3 percent…
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Two Presidents, Their Spokespeople & Our Money
Sometimes when one hears the figures politicians and their handlers bandy around in a country as unequal as Kenya, one can’t help but wonder, do these folks breathe the same air the rest of us breathe; do they eat the same ugali the rest of us eat; and do they eventually go to the lavatory…
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It’s Official. We’ve Got A Jet-Gate.
The President, “His Friends” and A Private Jet This is not a witch hunt. We open with this disclaimer because two things happened yesterday which were meant to put what had not yet become a full blown jet-gate to rest. The first one was an off the cuff remark made by President William Ruto at…
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Who’s Talking? Ruto, Rigathi or Malala?
The kitchen inside President William Ruto’s United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party has suddenly and uncharacteristically gotten extremely hot, and folks, some pretty close to the head chef – pardon us 😅 – the head of state, are now being told to evacuate immediately if they can’t handle the joto and the moto (or is it…
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The Battle for South Africa’s Soul
Today, one of Africa’s and indeed the world’s most important countries goes to the polls. Dubbed the most important election since the 1994 general election in which Black South Africans voted for the first time, giving the then Nelson Mandela-led African National Congress (ANC) a 62 percent majority, the 2024 election hugely mirrors 1994 in…