Tag Archive: Kenya

Kenya’s Proposed Constitutional Amendments to Mitigate Electoral Violence

Kenya has embarked on yet another attempt to make changes to its nine-year-old constitution. This attempt comes three months after a failed attempt by...

Press Freedoms Under Threat In Kenya

The arrest and detention of two Kenyan bloggers, Robert Alai and Patrick Safari over pictures of dead Kenyan security officers that shared on their...

BLACK, RED AND GREEN: The story behind the Kenyan flag

Fifty-six years ago, on July 26, 1963, the national flag of the soon to be newly independent state of Kenya was unveiled. The standard...

Matiang’i: Uhuru’s Middle Finger To The Constitution

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s recent elevation of Fred Matiang’i to “chief” of the Cabinet Secretaries has been widely interpreted as a swipe against his deputy,...

Ending FGM: Lessons from Uganda and Kenya

On February 6, Uganda and Kenya joined the rest of the world to mark the International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM. The day...

The Outlook for Kenyan Politics in 2019

For Kenyans, 2018 begun on a knife edge. The final months of 2017 had been dominated by a dispute over the annulled August presidential...

How lessons from the past helped save lives in Tuesday’s Nairobi terror attack

At 3.30 PM on Tuesday 15th of January 2019, five gunmen blasted their way into the Dusit Complex on 14 Riverside Drive in the...

How to Talk About Terror Attacks

The attack on the Dusit D2 hotel complex seems frighteningly familiar. From the images of people crouching along flower beds as gunshots ring out,...

Kenya’s Anti-Corruption Crusade, Genuine Graft Purge or Political Duel?

For the first time in independent Kenya’s history, the country is seemingly tackling corruption in high places. Over the past few months, senior government...

Protecting Kenya’s Civic Space

This wasn’t how things were meant to turn out. It was so very different 16 years ago, when we sang of how Unbwogable we...

Kenya’s Corruption Scandals, A case of Same Script Different Cast?

Or is it a case of same script, same cast with a few new extras? I think the latter describes the Kenyan scenario better...

‘The Handshake’ – Kenya’s Sweet and Sour Political Deal

On 9th March 2018, history was re-written in Kenya. President Uhuru Kenyatta and hiss arch nemesis former Prime Minister and leader of the opposition...