Author: Njonjo Mue
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Kuna Nuru Gizani? Shakahola and Other Short Stories
It is a Sunday afternoon and the sun is playing hide and seek with a lazy cumulus cloud that stubbornly hovers above Uhuru Park, Nairobi. The park is teeming with a sea of humanity. For hours, they have been singing, clapping, dancing and cheering. Now, oblivious of their own near-exhaustion, they are totally captivated by…
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It Tolls For Thee…
A month ago, after a trial that lasted six years, the High Court of Kenya sentenced four police officers to death and long prison terms for the brutal torture and killing of human rights lawyer Willy Kimani, his client Josephat Mwenda, and their taxi driver Joseph Muiruri. In June 2017, during a memorial service held…
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Kenya, Why We Cannot Afford To Stop
In the Bible, Abraham is referred to as the father of faith. He is the pioneer of all three Abrahamic religions namely Judaism, Christianity and Islam. One of the hallmarks of his life is that he walked closely with God from the time God called him to migrate from his home city in Ur of…
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An Alliance Love Story
Njonjo Mue takes us back to a magical time when he felt the first flutterings of tender teenage love.
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Nelson Mandela: The Myth, The Man, The Legend
This month marks 33 years since Nelson Mandela walked out of prison to breathe the fresh air of freedom after 27 years of incarceration by South Africa’s apartheid racist minority regime. Mandela’s release marked a critical milestone in the dismantling of apartheid and the advent of majority rule, which would culminate in Black South Africans…
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Hustlers, Upper Deck Folks And The Real Children Of David Ndii’s Cruel Marriage.
We are living in strange times. Scrolling through the Twitter handle of Dr. David Ndii makes for some disturbing reading. Responding to a tweet by Njeri Thorne in which she shares the view that President Ruto might be a great president if he “rid himself of fitina folk, D grade ministers… and village thugs in…
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Paul Biya’s Fart-Fest, Jacinda Ardern’s Resignation, And Knowing When To Go
A recent video clip that went viral was at best painful to watch and at worst an unmitigated embarrassment for African audiences. It showed 90-year-old Cameroonian President Paul Biya who has been in power since 1982 attending a plenary session of the US Africa Leadership Summit that was held in Washington in December 2022. The…
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The Case for Reviving Kenya’s Abandoned Transition
“The struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” – Milan Kundera. This month marks fifteen years since Kenya’s journey to true nationhood was so viciously interrupted as we descended into 60 days of anarchy, more popularly known as the 2007/8 Post-Election Violence (PEV). That sad chapter in our national history…