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 […]
Tag Archives: Raila Odinga
Kenya Election 2013: Raila Odinga And The Vaclav Havel-Lech Walesa Problem
April 3, 2013 9 Comments Short URL Central Kenya, Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, International Criminal Court, Kenya, Kenya election 2013, Kikuyu, Kikuyu people, Lech Walesa, Raila Odinga, Rift Valley, Uhuru Kenyatta, Vaclav Havel, William Ruto Fast & Furious, Rogue Stuff
Kenya’s Tribalism And Other African Madness; Why Ethnicity Is A Myth And Voodoo Political Science
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 4 Comments Short URL Africa, election, ethnicity, GEMA, Homa Bay, John Githongo, Jomo Kenyatta, Kalonzo Musyoka, Kamukunji, Kenya, Kikuyu, Martha Karua, Mount Kenya, Mwai Kibaki, Narc-Kenya, Orange Democratic Movement, post-election Kenya, Raila Odinga, Tom Mboya, tribalism, Uhuru Kenyatta, voodoo science Blue Skies, Political Barometre, Rogue Stuff
‘Peeling Back The Mask’; Why An Angry Aide’s Book Might Be An Unlikely Early Christmas Present For Kenya President Kibaki And Prime Minister Raila (Part 1)
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 8 Comments Short URL Barack Obama, Kenya, Kibaki, Kilaguni, Miguna, Mo & Me, Mwai Kibaki, Orange Democratic Movement, Peeling Back The Mask, Raila, Raila Odinga Naked Chiefs & Emperors, War & Peace
The Moi Hand In Museveni’s Kenya Game; And The Political Tremors Shaking Up The Greater Horn Of Africa (Opening Shots)
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 11 Comments Short URL anti-imperialist, Burundi, Daniel arap Moi, East African Community, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Francis Muthaura, Great Lakes University' Education Fund, Hassan Mwinyi, Hegleig, Isaias Afwerki, John Kazoora, Kalonzo Musyoka, KANU, Kenya succession, Kenya’s disputed 2007 election, Lonrho, Mark Too, Meles Zenawi, Mugabe-ist, Musalia Mudavadi, Museveni as Luo elder, Mwai Kibaki, National Resistance Movement (NRM), native cunning, northern Tanzania, Orange Democratic Movement Kisumu, post-election violence (PEV) in Kenya, Raila Odinga, roving envoy Mark Too, Rwanda, Somalia, SPLA/M, Sudan, The Star, Tiny Rowland, Uganda, Uhuru Kenyatta, William Ruto, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Diplomatic Shenanigans, Political Barometre
