‘One day there will be an uprising in Kenya. Things have to change’
Robert 'Rowbow' Ochola(Photo Petterik Wiggers) Introduction: With a new constitution since 2010 and with social media as a new tool for communication, Kenyan politics has been...
We must not give up on revolutionary optimism in Kenya
Introduction: Kenyan former chief justice Willy Mutunga speaks out. “We must not give up on revolutionary optimism”, he warns in this piece. Since a new...
Only a strong judiciary can guarantee progress in 2017
Only a strong judiciary can guarantee progress
The revolution that consumed so many of us
By Dawit Mesfin
Book review
DELIVERANCE: A Tale of Colliding Passions and the Muse of Forgiveness
A Historical Novel
by Bereket Habte Selassie
The story Dr Bereket Habte Selassie...
“Let the horror begin”. That may be a good summary of the reactions in Africa regarding the victory of Donald Trump. Where Obama was Africa’s hero,...
War is better than a bad peace
War is better than a bad peace, writes Peter Adwok Nyaba. He is a long standing South Sudanese intellectual, former minister of Higher Education...
Eritrea has become a catastrophe
By Abraham Zere, head of Pen Eritrea It initially sounded like a joke; gradually it got serious and then tragic. A decade and a half...
Kenya has become a “bandit economy”, says Chief Justice Willy Mutunga
Africa is at war with its cartels, says Willy Mutunga, Chief Justice of Kenya
By Robert Ocholla One of the enduring curiosities of Kenya’s sporting scene has been the inability of our national soccer team Harambee Stars to make...
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