Recently, my colleague Bev, asked me a number of strategic questions relating to Africa - What are my dreams for Africa, What do I think of Africa's potential and so on and What really are Africa's challenges and opportunities. You'd think that I will have ...
New VAT Law bring savings into my home!
The VAT Act became law in Kenya and was implemented in the past two weeks. With it, came an increase in a number of daily necessities that have seen major changes in my house. These commodities include Milk and Newspapers (among several others)
I have not ...
Can we “soup up” the National Anthem?
This article was published this past Sunday in the Daily Nation (Kenya).
Last week I attended the admission into the roll of advocates of 72 new lawyers presided over by the Chief Justice of Kenya Dr Willy Mutunga.
At the colourful ceremony, I noticed two important things. ...
‘The Failure of Satire in Campaign-period Kenya’
My friend Stephen Derwent Partington asked me to post this on my blog (Squatting has taken on a new meaning I think - you heard it coined here first: Blog-Squatting) and since he's so smart and I have to increase the intellectual value of this blog, ...
WE PROTEST: #KOT Against Mps Bonus
Today, Kenyans on Twitter (#KOT) staged a protest in Nairobi, which was against the Members of Parliament awarding themselves a Kshs. 10 million per person bonus (!)
At a time,when teachers struggle to live and hospitals in Kenya have no services to treat our children, the ...
Make it okay to fail, and maybe development will fail forward
Blog post #2 from the Open Africa Summit, Zanzibar
Until today, I had never met Rakesh Rajani, the great man who leads Twaweza. I knew of him by reputation and we came close to meeting on a number of occasions but today, we met at the ...
WSF: great talk, no walk
A follow up article by Al Kags.
A little more than a week ago, I asked a question – or a series of questions that left me castigated left right and centre by the online socialist community. My question was specifically related to the World Social ...
The Races: The start of a series
Kenyans are for the next two years in for a veritable treat as far as entertainment is concerned. For eons, competition has been the surest form of entertaainment for the average human - and the two years 2007 and 2008 are going to be highly ...
Church Must Get a Grip – The Hominids Stay.
The Heads of the evangelical churches in Kenya, led by the Bishop Boniface Adoyo, who is the leader of the Christ is The Answer Ministries of the Nairobi Pentecostal Church, want the world acclaimed hominid fossils of the “origin of man” - undoubtedly among ...
Our cyle, our lives
A pregnant woman and a child were this week killed at the Dadaab refugee camps in northern Kenya, in a spate of flash floods that have left many homeless. According to Mr. Eddie Gedalof, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees acting representative in Kenya, many ...
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