African common market will boost trade
Our Pan-africanist ancestors just sat up and took notice. I have often imagined that most days our ancestors look down at us and shake...
top of page
Search
Mar 18, 20183 min read
Divorce, extra-marital relationships and Kenyan political parties
With apologies to my Sunday Standard readers, this is this week’s opinion. My Sunday Standard column will resume next Sunday. Prolonged...
Mar 11, 20183 min read
After #UhuruRailaTalks ceasefire, we must fully address what ails us now
Friday’s ceasefire announcement by Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga has the power of an epic war movie ending. Secretly crafted and...
Mar 4, 20183 min read
VC and police must act over student leader Njoroge’s death
First published Sunday Standard, March 4, 2018. Kindly reproduced here with permission from the Standard Group It has been seventy years...
Feb 25, 20183 min read
Trampling on the rule of law breeds instability
First published Sunday Standard, February 25, 2018. Kindly reproduced here with permission from the Standard Group Three incidents...
Feb 18, 20183 min read
We are destroying the democratic fabric
Our national fire smolders still. Blinded by the smoke of zero-sum tactics of hardline politicians, many of us still cannot see the...
Feb 4, 20183 min read
New curriculum opportunity to deepen national values
First published Sunday Standard, February 4, 2018. Kindly reproduced here with permission from the Standard Group A few years back, I...
Feb 4, 20183 min read
Protect Environmental activists
A photo of a woman crouched in the bucket arm of an industrial excavator dramatically caught my eye last week. The woman climbed into...
Jan 28, 20183 min read
Equality is the fifth policy pillar, the Cabinet should address
A couple of years back, Koch Festival organisers invited Kilimani residents or Kilimanians as we now call them, to visit Korogocho on...
Jan 21, 20183 min read
It is time that gays speak their truth clearly and the rest of us listened without prejudice
My first homosexual experience happened with a male friend at the age of nineteen. We came across an older man who was lying on the...
Jan 14, 20183 min read
Halt forced evictions and let the Sengwer people be
First published Sunday Standard, January 14, 2018. Kindly reproduced here with permission from the Standard Group. This version corrects...
Jan 7, 20183 min read
Lets all safeguard human rights gains
Seventy years ago, world leaders gathered in Paris to declare never again to the violent atrocities seen in Nazi Germany. Facing their...
bottom of page