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Mar 12, 20223 min read
Channel national anger to transform the boda boda sector
Sexism, road rage and lawlessness exploded in time for International Women’s Day this year. The stripping and sexual assault of a female...
Feb 26, 20223 min read
Tribute to Joe, a national hero
By Irũngũ Houghton and Nelson Otuoma It is, primarily, the courage of persons living with HIV that has the AIDS epidemic no longer be a...
Feb 19, 20224 min read
Police must go beyond tear-gas, clubs, bullets as poll nears
Key Cabinet Secretaries spent Valentines’ morning with diplomats and gave their reassurance that the General Elections would be free,...
Jan 22, 20223 min read
With dumped bodies, Lake Victoria could become one large crime scene
Headlines that up to 30 bodies have been retrieved from the River Yala over the last six months is chilling. As investigators, human...
Jan 15, 20223 min read
Dr Olel’s life should inspire health workers to serve all
The late Odhiambo Olel lived at the intersection of medicine, human rights, and democratic activism. Two memorial services and his burial...
Dec 25, 20213 min read
A child will be born to displaced parents in Mukuru kwa Njenga this Christmas
Like baby Jesus, a child will be born to displaced parents in Mukuru kwa Njenga this Christmas. How the area went from a Jubilee...
Dec 18, 20213 min read
Schools must become spaces for critical thinking, affirmation, and freedom
Wildfires across our schools has provoked a wide range of policy and procedural proposals from policymakers, teachers, parents, and...
Nov 27, 20213 min read
Use better ways to convince us to take the Covid vaccine
Last Sunday’s National Emergency Response Committee announcement caught national attention. With vaccination slowing down, it was...
Nov 13, 20213 min read
Schools must creatively pique boys’ curiosity
By Irũngũ Houghton and Vainola Makan The latest surge of arson attacks across Kenya and South African schools are worrying. Boys are...
Nov 7, 20213 min read
Post curfew, can we create a fistula free nation?
By Irũngũ Houghton and Dr. Elizabeth Ominde-Ogaja While partygoers and the entertainment industry celebrated the end of the curfew...
Oct 30, 20213 min read
Let mother's tears prick the conscience of police officers
Warrants of arrests for four police constables were issued on Wednesday by a Nairobi Chief Magistrates Court. They are accused of...
Oct 10, 20213 min read
Time for another round of police reforms anyone?
The US Congress blew a historic opportunity by rejecting the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act (2021) last month. The law is America’s...
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