Burning the Master’s House
by Onyango Oketch
Now let the blame game begin. Schools in Kenya are going up in flames, together with the ideologies they espouse. We might say nothing new in these. That the kids are at the barricades – laying waste to millions of ideological indoctrination investment centers and are being met with a ban on cell [...]
Constitutional Crisis in Kenya
By Prof. Alberto Bencivenga
(http://www.ogiek.org)
Whoever reads Mr. S. N. Waruhiu’s book “From Autocracy to Democracy in Kenya” will be impressed by the amount of information and by the clarity of the analysis done by this author. Any reader who did not grow up in an Anglo-Saxon juridical culture will be additionally impressed by the fact that, [...]
They Are Young
By Onyango Oketch
Move over grand pa
They are young. They are angry. They are articulate and sophisticated. Nearly three quarters of them live in the sprawling slums of major Kenyan cities. These are a new generation of youths, mostly male, educated, jobless, idle and restless. It is a highly politicized generation, with nothing to loose and [...]
Open Letter by Shailja Patel
An Open Letter to SAMUEL KIVUITU, Chairman of Electoral Commission of Kenya from Shailja Patel.
Dear Mr. Kivuitu,
We’ve never met. It’s unlikely we ever will. But, like every other Kenyan, I will remember you for the rest of my life. The nausea I feel at the mention of your name may recede. The bitterness and grief [...]
