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Mar 12, 20173 min read
Devolution still holds great promise for us
This week’s Devolution Conference left me with both a sense of achievement and expectation. The first phase of devolution is coming to ...
Mar 5, 20173 min read
Happy International Women’s Day
At a teary funeral service this week, three adult children bravely rose to publicly celebrate their very beloved mother. All Saints...
Feb 26, 20173 min read
Kenya, wake up to girls’ potential
Last Friday, 600 girls sat rapt at a premiere screening of the movie “Hidden Figures”, Organized by Women in Real Estate (WIRE), dressed...
Feb 19, 20173 min read
No more politricks, Kenyans are ready for politics
The mood at Uhuru Park on Wednesday was electric. Over a thousand doctors and other citizens marched, sang and danced as they waited...
Feb 12, 20173 min read
What is the significance of the Wagalla Massacre for us today?
Thirty-three years ago today marks one of our darkest moments in history. On an isolated and abandoned airstrip in a marginalised...
Feb 5, 20173 min read
Time to interrupt the climate denialists among us
To my shame, I realize I might just have grown up a climate change denialist. Sitting in the presence of 40 climate and energy...
Jan 29, 20173 min read
National Government and PBOs need to talk
Irish stateswoman Bernadette Mc Aliskey’s words this week continue to ring in my ears. She said, “Most activists don’t choose activism,...
Jan 22, 20173 min read
The joys of active citizenship
First published Sunday Standard, January 22, 2017. Kindly reproduced here with permission from Standard Group Something phenomenal and...
Jan 15, 20173 min read
Is it time to change tack over the public health crisis?
This past week, the public health crisis just took an even dangerous turn. Judge Hellen Wasilwa’s emotionally delivered judgement this...
Jan 8, 20173 min read
Politics too important to leave to politicians
In the last few hours of 2016 a colleague argued passionately, “In 2017, NGOs, social movements and civic associations must give up...
Jan 7, 20173 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...
Sep 23, 20167 min read
International CSOs in a differentiated, globalised and networked world: Five traits they must drop
What INGOs are missing is an institutional culture of behaviours and traits that keep them empowered today. Here's five.
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