The recent Kenya election was easily the most watched and commented on in East Africa for a long time.Finally, last Saturday the Supreme Court upheld the election of Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta of the Jubilee alliance as the next president. After the March 4 poll, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) announced Uhuru winner […]
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A Farewell: Kenya’s Kibaki, And The Making Of An African ‘Minimalist Presidency’
Whether or not a clear winner emerges from Monday’s March 4 Kenya election, thus avoiding a second-round run-off in April, one thing is for sure: In State House, President Mwai Kibaki will be packing his last suitcases, preparing to clear out. A lot has been said about what Kibaki’s legacy will be; how the disputed […]
Why Male Golfers Hate Women, And That Little Matter Of The Castration Complex : Outrage At Kenya’s Limuru Country Club
Why do male golfers hate women? A few days ago, Kenya’s Limuru Country Club expelled three female golfers for opposing a new a rule denying women a voice and a vote in the general assembly – and then speaking about it to the media! It doesn’t matter what the status of the three women are, […]
As Kenya Elections Near, Some Struggle To Find Their Place In The Homeland – It’s A Story Well Told
Kenya’s first presidential debate aired on Monday February 11. Reports say it was easily the most watched local TV event of recent years in Kenya. I guess it would not have been a genuine Kenyan debate if, as it did, it didn’t linger a little long on the question of ethnicity/tribalism. But maybe that also […]
Meles Zenawi, A Retrospective: Why Ethiopians Eat Raw Meat, And One Man’s Struggle To Be A Modern Emperor Menelik
One of the key events in Africa of the last 10 years, not just 2012, was the death of Ethiopia’s cerebral but iron-fisted Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. Officially, Meles died on August 20, 2012, but his critics and enemies (and they are quite a few) believe he passed on early in July, but his ruling […]
What East Africa’s Cows And Their Milk Teach Us About Why Reform Fails
TODAY I visited with the good people of East Africa Dairy Development (EADD) in Nairobi, to talk about cows and milk in our neck of the woods. Put briefly, EADD works with dairy farmers in Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda to help them be smarter and make more money. As I sat with Moses Nyabila, EADD’s […]
Why East Africa – And The World – Can Chill A Little As Kenya Leaders Cook Up Political Deals
There was a dramatic rush in the Kenyan capital Nairobi last Tuesday (December 4, 2012) to beat the deadline for registering coalitions for the March 4, 2013 General Election.When the dust settled, the rest of East Africa, which had been worrying itself to death about Kenya having another violent election as it did in 2007/2008 thus […]
Africa’s Slums, Leafy Suburbs, Its ‘New’ Children, Music And Beautiful Future
Nairobi is an unusual city. Every wealthy suburb has its own slum that provides cheap labour for gardening, housework, plumbing, and other services for the stately homes. The diplomatic enclave of Gigiri, home to the UN Complex, US and other embassies; and the Runda and Rosslyn suburbs too have their slum – Githogoro. However, something […]
