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 […]
February 27, 2013
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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 […]
February 13, 2013
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The just-ended shambolic Kenyan nominations for the March 4 elections have earned the “leading” political parties; the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), The National Alliance (TNA), the United Republican (URP) etc. a lot of scorn and stick on social media and blogs. They say no good deed goes unpunished, so it was that in the messy […]
January 21, 2013
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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 […]
December 9, 2012
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Speaking about what promises to be a hotly election next year, President Mwai Kibaki recently advised Kenyans to “eat politicians’ money if it is offered”, but to vote with their heads. Last year Uganda’s opposition leader Dr Kizza Besigye made the same argument during the campaigns for the presidential elections early in the year. And, […]
October 3, 2012
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Ghana’s President John Atta Mills, died on Tuesday aged 68. If the gods of democracy exist somewhere out there, then they are sending very mixed signals to African democrats. There is now a nearly-established fact of African politics. The strongmen and dictators not only rule longer (naturally), they also seem to live longer than the […]
July 26, 2012
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The Miguna has landed, said a Kenyan wag. Last year, Miguna Miguna, Kenya Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s controversial and combative advisor on Coalition, Constitutional and Legal Affairs was dropped from his job. And with that, the country witnessed one of the bitterest political fall-outs between master and servant of recent Kenyan history. An angry Miguna […]
July 19, 2012
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Recently The Star newspaper in Nairobi reported that Kenya’s Deputy Prime Minister and Local Government minister Musalia Mudavadi held “secret” talks with Uganda’s President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in Kampala in early April. The meeting, the paper reported, was also attended by former Kenya president Daniel arap Moi’s roving envoy Mark Too. That was a richly […]
April 24, 2012
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“The LRA had punctured a hole in her upper and lower lips, then run a padlock through it—and walked away with the key. When they found the woman, she was emaciated, and had a rotting wound stuck around the padlock” THIS IS THE STORY OF KONY, OR RATHER KONY 2012, that sensational […]
March 13, 2012
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Where men are threatened in Kenya, you can expect Maendeleo ya Wanaume (Movement for Men’s’ Rights), a conservative lobby group led by the colourful Mr Nderitu Njoka, to show up. So it was that recently, Maendeleo ya Wanaume warned that it was going to mobilise Kenya’s suffering men to boycott food in their houses starting […]
February 28, 2012
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