Tag Archive: Kenya

How striking Kenyan doctors are using Twitter to appeal for public support

Kenyan doctors have been away from public hospitals for about one and a half months now. The strike was occasioned by a 4-year-old Collective...

Kenya’s Biggest Electoral Problem? Not Solving Electoral Problems

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth famously declared 1992 an “annus horribilis”, one which, she said, she wouldn’t look back with undiluted pleasure. For many around the...

Obama’s sour story on governance in Africa

Barack Obama famously said “Africans must build Africa for Africa!”. A nice message, but what do you do, when Africans themselves fight each other...

Whom Should Kenyans Blame For The Faltering War On Corruption?

The resignation of Philip Kinisu as head of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission caps off yet another week during which corruption and the faltering...

Why the opposition may not be best suited to rescue Kenya from lootocracy

Kenyans are tired. Their country has been up for sale since the white man’s administration. They took the most fertile lands for themselves and...

Kenya’s Greatest Gamble Yet

Recently the Daily Nation bravely shone a spotlight on the gambling craze that is sweeping the nation. Sports betting has taken the country by...

Kenyans On Twitter Won The Battle Against Koffi Olomide But Losing The War. Here’s Why

The recent deportation of famed 60-year-old Congolese rumba star, Koffi Olomide, after he was filmed apparently kicking a female member of his band at...

Kenya’s Crisis of Memory and Imagination

Kenya today finds itself in the throes of a crisis. In the run up to next year’s scheduled general election, weekly opposition protests and...

Caregiving for Ghosts

My memory is again in the way of your history. Agha Shahid Ali, Farewell. I’ve been wondering about the role of apathy. We read...

Why Kenya needs to start planning for an exit from Somalia

Slightly over a week ago, tens of Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) soldiers were butchered in a night attack on their base in El Adde,...