The electoral crisis has prompted various calls for radical changes to the Kenyan state and polity. Some of them would involve the destruction of the state of Kenya, and others […]

Kenyans hear most of ethnicity once in four years. That is when election fever starts as the government launches into its electoral campaign. It thus starts the campaign by breaking […]

We can hope that a number of the people elected in August have come into their new offices full of not just enthusiasm but also determination to fight corruption, and […]

The Constitution does not begin and end with politics and elections — at least if we think of politics Kenyan style (personal ambition and ethnic manipulation — and huge expenditure […]

Not only is the Bill of Rights the longest Chapter, but the drafters designed the Constitution to be firmly based on human rights. This is something we can see most […]

Two weeks ago, this column raised the issue of how far party manifestos — at the presidential level at least — show concern with and understanding of the Constitution, and […]

There is a tendency to treat party manifestos as a waste of time. Most Kenyans think that no party is going to respect the manifesto if it wins. But they […]

Plastic bags and sub-counties may seem to have little in common. What links them is our government’s tendency to think it can govern by pronouncement—including  to ban the former or […]