There’s nothing as hard/difficult as running a country in peaceful times. Peace reveals that which war hides. Uhuru men and Ruto men used to fight all the time. The only time they…
I love basketball. I follow soccer whenever I have nothing important to do but for life’s sterner lessons, I watch the sport of TENNIS. Tennis is where time really passes. Tennis is…
There was always a struggle in the early months of President Ruto’s presidency to show that he had no global reach, and that his government was a local thing. This week has…
’41 Against 1′ was a mantra the Kikuyu coined post-2007 to justify their hanging on to power after Kibaki was defeated. Throughout the 2007 election, not a single time do you find…
The usual whiners are back to blaming ‘Luos in government’ for the ongoing conflict in Sondu. The Sondu conflict is intractable. It has socio-economic, cultural, and political dimensions that a security-led approach…
Luo politicians, if they are genuine that they want to end the opportunistic murder of Luos during political crises, then they must first build institutions of justice within the Luo community. When…
As demonstrations go on, Azimio risks losing out if the leadership does not quickly find a way of engaging the government on the way forward. The Finance Bill’s fate is in court.…
On December 12, 2020 I wrote this piece “Uhuru vs Fear”, for Medium: It was a certain American President who faced a country reeling from dire economic difficulties wrought by the “great…
President William Ruto has demonstrated he can deal with low-level graft. Where the rubber meets the road, however, is high-level larceny. Graft that involves folks at the presidency, folks in the cabinet,…
When is the process of having a new KER starting? What can we say Ker Otondi achieved for the Luo? What are we looking for in the next KER? I have gone…