Embu Governor Mbarire fights shadows in broad daylight, wailing, 'Come, baby come'

She issued and retracted threats, cajoled her enthused crowd for support, then restated her firm standpoint as a regional power baroness.

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Ngugi: The prophetic voice whose warning has now come to pass

Despite his long absence from Kenya, accounting for over 40 years, Ngugi still held a Kenyan passport. He died Kenyan, and he died for Kenya.

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Unmasking the literary genius: Ngugi's musings, myths, criticisms

Prof Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Kenya and Africa’s towering man of letters who has died at the age of 87, evolved from a mythical figure of my youth to become a close mentor whose friendship.

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Kenya Kwanza is redistributing wealth to hustlers, let's use the model to mobilise crowds

Some ten million hustlers took small loans of Sh500 once or twice, but never repaid and the government now considers them bad loans and will write them off.

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After taking all your cash in taxes, now Govt says it requires your ideas on spending it

Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi has reached out to Kenyans seeking suggestions on how to improve the National Budget for the next financial year.

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Mama Samia provides dash of Dar hospitality to top Kenyan activists

Instead of protesting the shabby treatment of Kenyans who were illegally detained in Dar, before being deported, Mudavadi suggested that they called it upon themselves.

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City residents to Sakaja: Slow down, we'll pay up when we can, even Kenya has debts

City dwellers who have defaulted on rent for years are facing eviction despite City Hall failing to maintain those units for a decade, collect garbage or fix city thoroughfares.

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Former top cop Charles Owino provides compelling analogy of how to commit murder

Charles Owino, the former spokesperson for the National Police Service, returned to TV screens this week to provide useful insights about law and disorder in Homa Bay county.

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Kenyans grieve their lost kin, even as Murkomen circles in useless legalese

Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen appeared on TV to “explain” what President Ruto meant when he declared that youth who were abducted had safely been returned to their families.

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It's a shoe in: Ruto's reign will be defined by the flying missile

I am sure the people of Migori have gentler ways of expressing their affection, even though flying a shoe may well be one of the gestures.

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The Kenyattas want a generational change they could not initiate, after 25 years in charge

Muhoho’s other major claim is that he’s the younger brother of Prezzo Uhuru Kenyatta, so I was surprised to see the younger Kenyatta looking elderly, complete with a grey beard.

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Get ready, 'Soundtrack To a Coup D'etat' will simply blow your mind

Soundtrack to a Coup-D’Etat intersects jazz, Cold War politics and colonisation to explain the murder of DRC’s founding premier, Patrice Lumumba.

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Get ready, 'Soundtrack To a Coup D'etat' will simply blow your mind

DRC is still under the Western-sanctioned continuation of neo-colonial exploitation.

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It's a shoe in: Ruto's reign will be defined by the flying missile

The government has left no foot unturned as they sought to establish the circumstances under a shoe floated so close to President William Ruto's face

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After jobs hoax in UAE, it's fair for Kenyans to say in unison: 'Hapa hatuna nchi'

Some distraught Kenyans have been sharing distressing stories about their botched job searches in the UAE, where they were deported as soon as they landed.

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'Crystal ball' Professor Mutua failed to anticipate own future in KK government

The good prof, who writes kizungu mingi every Sunday under the mantra of “Crystal Ball,” did not anticipate his own future working for the Zakayo administration!

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Young Kenyans are selling their kidneys for motor bikes, let's sell hearts for a little more

Reports of our young citizens selling their body parts to elderly Europeans and other nationalities hit a new, deep chord of desperation.

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As mid-term beckons, MPigs grunt it's their turn to fill up tanks

MPs have raised furore over Constituency Development Fund (CDF), which they claim hadn’t been released on schedule, hampering their work and jeorpardising their prospects for re-election.

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Thanks to climate change, free thinkers of Nyanza have turned into sycophants

Nyanza Professional Sycophants is raising funds to orchestrate the removal of Siaya Governor James Orengo from office for embarrassing Raila Odinga after asking hard questions on ODM-UDA deal

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Much ado about nothing? Why Malala drama echoes petty politics

Official censorship that required a licence from the government for directors to stage plays was repealed in the 2010 Constitution to entrench artistic freedom.

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Sheria House is rare enclave of law and order, and apparently love is in the air!

At Sheria House the seats are clean and so is the chamber while the orderlies are courteous and helpful.

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A roach showed up for dessert at a fine city diner, we all responded with calm

I saw a mid-sized roach jump out of the menu booklet at a five-star hotel in the city.

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Theatre of the absurd takes root as Kenya Kwanza's manifesto

There is no way of knowing who among these powerful actors - President Ruto, former CS Justin Muturi and former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua - had most resonance with their audiences.

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Down the Athi River, farmers and fishermen watch as their livelihoods are washed away

Fishes of the water, the best barometer of the quality of the water have been floating lifeless along the stretches of the river to infer the scale of the poisoning.

By 2 months ago

How about a new Cabinet every month, Mister Prezzo, it'll do our country a lot of good

I’d like to encourage him to think of Cabinet appointments as gigs, renewable after every three months, as this will have many more indirect benefits.

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Prezzo Ruto delivers April Fool's day stunt by taking road to ruin

President Ruto misstated facts like Kenyan tea is being sold to Sudan, because it is not, since his government allowed Rapid Support Force (RSF) to operate from Nairobi.

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Democracy by exclamation goes to stadium, revealing nation in a restive state

The highlight of the Harambee Stars against Gabon match, unsurprisingly, were chants of Ruto Must Go, which were delivered to celebrate the team’s triumphs or humiliation on the pitch.

By 2 months ago

Baba Yao's quest for freedom, and why snake oil salesmen are hovering around

It’s strange so many Kenyans are surprised that former Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu aka Baba Yao is still in jail after he was convicted for corruption. 

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Why Cabinet shuffle is the most successful project, complete with annual reviews

After nearly a year of push and pull, Justin Muturi, the former AG and Public Service CS, has been sacked, only a day after Ruto declared his tenure at Sheria House as “fairly incompetent.” 

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Season III of presidential tours destined for Mount Kenya, with goons in tow

In recent times, Mt Kenya region has been labelled “tribal,” because Rigathi Gachagua asked President Ruto difficult questions about different sectors of the economy.

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Raila, 80, seeks liberation from Kenyans in his quest for time 'lost' in detention, exile

ODM leader Raila Odinga owes no one an explanation for his choices, he was jailed and lost many years while his peers were making money

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Death of a doctor and the tragedy of a nation that long lost its soul

A medical doctor who treated patients for free at Kenyatta National Hospital died because he could not access treatment.

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Kesses man takes law into his own hands, offering a model worthy of replication

Some chap in the Rift Valley has captured the national attention for establishing a “police patrol base,” which he reportedly operated undetected for six months.

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Dough-nation: Ruto's grand plan to feed the masses or charm them

President William Ruto committed to purchase one-million chapati-making machine for Nairobi county to facilitate the Dishi Na County programme.

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After receiving red card in Kisii, Raila blames Ruto for 'making the first move' on merger

When Raila Odinga faced a hostile crowd in Kisii he moved quickly to explain that it was President Ruto who made the first move on their coalition agreement.

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Alai keeps it real, restoring Nairobi to its ancient mission of a supply depot

This week, Robert Alai presented a Motion that seeks to regulate what he calls non-motorised transport.

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The audacity of freedom after jailbreak from cages of Nairobi's old estates in Eastlands

The modest dwellings, constructed under a proper affordable housing project in the 1960s housed junior cadre of civil servants, but have been knocked down to pave way for new houses..

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From broad-based to now bread-based government, interesting time beckon

President William Ruto has dismissed the Auditor General’s disclosures on rot in the government as handiwork of “cartels” who are hell-bent on discrediting his efforts.

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Sakaja trashes the city paving the way for its rebuilding, bottom up

When Governor Johnson Sakaja showed up in office on Monday and found folks at Kenya Power had turned off power, over some unpaid electricity bills, he instantly swung into action.

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City parking rakes up Sh2,000 every 15 minutes, so I'm carrying trash to dish out

Nairobi County enforcement officers use clamps to immobilise motorists who forget to pay their parking fees.

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