Tag: spotlight
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Thank you, Rasna Warah. Aluta Continua!
There is so much to say in this sad moment but I can only profess that Rasna Warah was one of the bravest and most truthful Kenyans I have known. She stood on principle and exposed mischief within the United Nations at the cost of her job. She quit a prominent columnist role at the…
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Rasna Warah never seemed afraid
My father loved to retweet Rasna Warah. I think in her, he believed he’d found a kindred political spirit. Someone who saw all the injustice for what it was and had the courage to scream, “For crying out loud!” But my father, being the parastatal man that he was, born during colonialism and adulting through…
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Pen on in eternal power!
Although I never got to meet Rasna Warah in person, I feel like I knew her very well. This is because of her open, forthright, and provocative style of writing. I met her through her words, sentences, paragraphs, articles, tweets, and books, through which she effectively weaved and curated her thoughts and emotions. Her oeuvre…
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Is Raila Odinga’s Time Up?
At 79, Raila Odinga may just have made his worst political blunder.
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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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The President, the Jet and the Spokesman
During his spirited campaign to be president, William Ruto’s main refrain was that he was the son of a nobody – that his father was a nobody, which therefore made him a nobody. The President repeated time without number that he came from nothing, absolutely nothing, and that it was especially for this particular reason…
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Style Secrets For Every Broke Girl
No matter what you wear, beauty and radiance come from the inside. Wear confidence as your perfume every day; don’t you dare leave the door without it.