The book I review this month is called Mizizi: A Collection of Essay on Kenya’s History (University of Nairobi Press…
Month: October 2014
On August 10, the Daily Nation published a rather curious opinion article titled “Why Some Ethnic Groups Become the Subject…
In the beginning there was Abebe Bikila, the imperial guard who ran barefoot atop Roman cobblestones by torchlight in 1960…
All national newspapers splashed retired President Daniel Arap Moi’s 90th birthday celebration on their front pages. TVs gave the story…
In this interview with Tom Odhiambo, 82-year old Elimo Njau – real name Rekyaelimoo – talks about birth in Tanzania,…
Someone once suggested, in the heat of the struggle for multiparty democracy, that those found flashing the multi-party (two-finger) salute…
In less than a year, the world will celebrate the eight hundredth anniversary of what is commonly regarded as the…
I attended the 27th Swahili Colloquium at the University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, from 08th – 09th June, this year.…
While MPs and governors have millions of shillings in CDF and county budgetary allocations the senators have nothing. It would…
As Aden Bare Duale, a take-no-prisoner politician who makes no apologies in defending the Jubilee government to the hilt,…