politics

On November 9th 2016 (East African time zone) I went to bed a writer, November 10th, I woke up crippled. I was a soldier wounded not from fire exchange but from shock, the psychological consequences still too perturbing and way too painful, so much so,...

If the Women’s March is anything to go by, then 2017 is up for a good start. 2017 shows promise of being a far better year than its predecessor, and a year that was widely referred to as the Monday of years, 2016. Unfortunately I was unable to participate...

A week into the university lecturers strike and still no sign of the end. Healthcare workers have been on the streets for close to two months now and we’ve moved on, into full campaign mode, only caring about who is defecting to where and the record low...

And the 2016 “Disaster of the Year” award goes to the Ministry of Education. What was that? Is Dr. Fred Matiang’i, the C.E.O of that exam, really the 2016 de facto “Hero of the Year”? How do I reconcile the fact that 80% of the 1.5 million students in...

At the final White House Correspondents’ dinner on the 29th of April this year, President Obama made a joke about the prospects of a female president before dropping the mic. This was his first ever public hint that he was With Her. Hillary Clinton been...

What an eventful weekend this has been in the US presidential race! Donald Trump was caught on tape, pants on fire, basically bragging about sexually assaulting women eleven years ago. He defended himself by claiming to have been an impressionable 59-year...

Is it just me or does anyone else find Miguna Miguna’s message utterly uninspiring? Uninspiring is understatement. Untrustworthy is more like it. Fear, even. Miguna came to the limelight close to five years ago after breaking ranks with his boss Raila...

Are we the kind of adults we want our kids to grow up to be? First off let me start by saying that I’m not a parent, yet. Biologically at least. Nevertheless I’m a guardian to some kids. Where I come from, parenting is a role that is sort of bestowed...

So, Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party nominee, is due to face off with Donald Trump, her Republican counterpart this November in one of the most charged election cycles in America’s history. To say that this journey hasn’t been easy is to completely...

Quote: Women rights are human rights― Hillary Clinton, Beijing 1995 The 2016 Women Deliver conference is underway in Copenhagen Denmark. The conference seeks to close the gender gap. Societies worldwide are admitting that women are still grotesquely underrepresented...