The first time visitor to Kenya will soon discover that Kenya is a very religious country. Churches and mosques are...
By Lotte Hughes and Emily Kinama By-lines: Lotte Hughes is an historian working on contemporary Kenya. Until recently she led a major...
By Prof. Jill Cottrell Ghai The constitutional vision The overall vi...
By Henry O Maina. By-line: Henry Omusundi Maina is the Regional Direc...
By Allan Maleche, Tabitha Griffith Saoyo and Nerima Were. By-line: Al...
By Gitungo Wamere Jessica Musila of Mzalendo Trust By-line: Gitungo...
By Walter Khobe Ochieng By-line: Walter Khobe, is a Lecturer at the D...
By Prof. Yash Ghai. I. Hopes and plans Some history At independence...
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Is it possible for us to celebrate and perpetuate someone’s achievements whilst condoning that person’s human failings? The world has become very condemnatory, lately. And viciously so. If we read more or less the same newspapers, watch more or less the same TV shows and use more or less the same social media, then we have been made more or less part of the burgeoning, universal inquisition. It’s guiding tenet is simple: if evidence is found of past ethical misconduct on your part, no matter how long ago, then you must be ‘outed’ at the earliest opportunity, stripped of all your...
‘I will hunt you down ... I will find you ... and I will kill you’ - we are all familiar with muscular American men saying this in countless movies and other entertainment tropes. A typical scenario involves a hot-blooded white guy, in the prime of his life, who has been mugged, assaulted, beaten or otherwise physically harmed, or someone close to him – a wife, daughter, niece, friend – is raped, killed or seriously injured. This, then, is how he reacts, filled with an uncontrollable urge to inflict the bloodiest punishment on the perpetrator of the crime. But whoever that person...
A critique (first of three) by Karim Hirji of articles published in AwaaZ Volume 15, Issue 2 2018. ...
By Shashi Tavares. Service to humanity is service to God KD Travadi's voice, loud and clear, thundered across the Kenya Legislative Council chamber as he debated the White Paper on the Civil Service with Tom Mboya, on 16 December 1960. He said: ‘... and I myself, am in my 44th year in this country - I have had my children and children's...
India should see the removal of Gandhi’s statue in Ghana as the decision of a sovereign people ‘It will be waste of good money to spend Pounds25,000 on erecting a clay or metallic statue of the figure of a man who is himself made of clay …’ Gandhi, Harijan on February 11, 1939. His view ignored, Gandhi statues were proposed, in his...
Every time I read about protests in Africa against the installation of...
The saintly legacy of Gandhi is being questioned. In 2016, the Univer...
Tamale 1983 ‘We could fly you into Upper Volta and drive you down acr...
The Christian right in the US has been a bulwark of reaction for decad...
Date: 11 January 2019 Venue: Soma Mkawahi, Mikocheni, Dar-es-Salaam ...
Jill Cottrell Ghai, Prof. Yash Pal Ghai, John Allan Namu, Wambui Otien...
Life is a dew drop. This I know. And yet. And yet! This Japanese Haiku (traditional t...
It is little wonder that as soon as news of Urmila Jhaveri`s death spread, heartfelt tri...
By SHAMLAL PURI in London The UK’s East African diaspora mourned the passing on of Cham...
