Reading the Washington Post online, I came across an item about 20 questions on science and technology that American scientists propose that candidates for election as President should debate publicly. […]

Politicians and their sycophants are obsessed by “ethnicity” or rather the mobilisation of ethnicity—as the primary basis of politics, apart from dishing out money and jobs, which rightly belong to […]

The MRC Cases at the High Court and Court of Appeal Randu Nzai Ruwa and 2 others v The Internal Security Minister and Attorney General, (Miscellaneous Application No.468 of 2010) […]

“Evelyn Mwambe, 37, mother of two and a resident of Kyapaloni, Buseruka village revealed [in a police statement] that her husband vanished into thin air after receiving compensation monies without […]

In this article I summarise some of the points I made in my keynote lecture at the final meeting of the Samosa Festival season, held at the University of Nairobi […]

There has been considerable controversy over the consequences of consuming miraa. For a long time it was consumed in Somalia, northern parts of Kenya, and Ethiopia. With the movement of […]

Two of Kenya’s leading intellectuals, Anyang’ Nyong’o and David Ndii, have been much troubled recently with the contradiction, or at least the tension, between ethnicity and the system of governance […]

Since the disappearance of lawyer Willie Kimani, taxi driver Joseph Muiruri and boda boda rider Josphat Mwenda, there have been numerous calls for the dismissal of Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph […]