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In this last offering of the ‘My Story’ trilogy, indefatigable wordsmith Philip Ochieng argues in a fledgling democracies such as ours, guarding press freedom is the best bet in preserving social rights
..Notwithstanding the completely false historiography by its present intelligentsia, the West has shown that it usually takes a revolution to bring about a new…
The Fourth Estate’s watchdog role and why we need to change the culture of journalism
BY DAVID MATENDE You risk being dismissed with a derisive wave of the hand in Kenya if you proclaim membership to a watchdog group.…
Blurred lines Because of factors such as the Internet, movies and popular music, children are ‘maturing’ too fast, and age-appropriate sexual content is becoming a moot concept
BY KEVIN MOTAROKI Patrick came home one evening to the welcome of a shocking conversation between his two sons aged 9 and 11. He…
Foods and your fertility
BY MAORE ITHULE Towards the end of last year, the controversial tetanus vaccine turned Kenyan clergy pyrotechnic. Shockingly, men and women of the…
Oh, the chagrin!
BY TIJAN SCHWEIN A vibrant league and clubs naturally translate to a formidable national football team, rightly so because the clubs act as a…
Sportsmen who made second fortune
BY ODONGO WATTA Sometime towards the end 2013, Athletics Kenya (AK) convened an unusual seminar in Eldoret that brought together athletes and a number…
The ‘letter’ versus ‘spirit’ of the law
BY PHILIP OCHIENG One of our basic assumptions rises from the premise that society’s collective good is what is served by the punitive…
Building democracies: Why civil societies matter
By Prof John Haberson When civil society advocacy becomes contentious in a constitutional democracy such as Kenya, which came about in large part…
Econo-political integration of Africa still a distant dream
By William Naggaga In 1980, African heads of State and government, meeting in Lagos Nigeria, adopted the Lagos Plan of Action to galvanise…
Poverty a threat to Kenya’s socio-economic success
A report launched in Nairobi last week presented a bleak forecast regarding the country’s capacity to meet its millennium development goals and execute a socio-economic…