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 treas…
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 …
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 perc…
The prosecutor of a United Nations tribunal has announced that his office has concluded its hunt for individuals who were suspected to bear the most responsibility for the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Th…
It was a bright sunny Tuesday afternoon, and there I was, sitting for my KCPE 1Kiswahili paper. Time was ticking, literally, because I was sitting at the front row, with the classroom clock directly i…
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…
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 bl…
