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Sep 9, 20233 min read
Regimes that suppress dissenting voices invite bongo flava
Flying to an international conference should not be a matter of distress for presidents. The relatively few African Heads of States at...
Sep 2, 20233 min read
Go beyond carbon markets at the upcoming climate summit
Nairobi Climate Summit Declaration must go beyond carbon markets to announce ambitious, sustainable, and long-lasting commitments
Jul 16, 20233 min read
We're caught between danger of revolt and chance of reason
Wednesday’s protests are the most violent yet. Observing the protests, the constitution’s drafters must have struggled to see any...
Jul 10, 20233 min read
Time to stop religious cults from unleashing future massacres
Appearing before the Shakahola Senate Ad hoc Committee this week, I found myself reflecting how we can stop religious cults in future
Jun 10, 20233 min read
Kenyans smell double-speak in government policies and tax plans
Left untransformed, inequalities and exclusion are our greatest threat, our Upper Hill statisticians tell us. In a week where we are told...
Apr 29, 20233 min read
Shakahola media ban is counterproductive, lift it.
Prof. Amartya Sen’s observation that no famine can take place with a free media took on new significance with the shocking discoveries in...
Apr 15, 20233 min read
The bi-partisan committee must succeed
Sandwiched between two Senators this week, I was pleasantly surprised that the media encounter didn’t turn into a violent gladiator...
Mar 25, 20233 min read
Azimio, police should handle next demos differently to avert chaos
Both Azimio la Umoja and the National Police Service lost control of Monday’s protests against the cost of living, the last general...
Mar 18, 20233 min read
We cannot afford 50 Cabinet Administrative Secretaries
President William Ruto’s nomination of fifty Cabinet Administrative Secretaries opens the door to one of the most bloated cabinets at a...
Mar 5, 20234 min read
Locking media practitioners out of MCK board carries great risk
A media governance storm has been brewing for the past month. So far pre-occupying a handful of state officers, media regulators,...
Feb 4, 20233 min read
Disregarding code of practices will hurt social media platforms
Barely a week after President William Ruto launched Kenya’s first data protection registration system on International Data Privacy Day,...
Dec 17, 20223 min read
Social media giant Meta sued in a Kenyan court, again.
This Wednesday, two Ethiopian men successfully sued Meta Platforms Inc in a Nairobi High Court for failing to moderate malicious content...
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