This is how we can make elections in Kenya better
The recent controversial presidential elections in the US in which the unapologetic racist and misogynistic Donald Trump won despite losing the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by a huge margin will...
View ArticleWhy Raila’s divide and rule strategy will fail
German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once wrote; “Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.” These words ring true for any keen observer of Kenyan politics and...
View ArticleDemocracy in Africa, an important dialogue for all citizens
Post-election violent conflict along ethnic lines is the greatest threat to Africa’s stability and consolidation of democratic institutions and culture. It is with this in mind that on Wednesday, 14th...
View ArticleWhy PNU is good for Jubilee
Though many are not ready to admit it or say it out loud, President Uhuru Kenyatta’s the Jubilee Party is actually facing a crisis in it backyards of Central and Rift Valley. Thanks to the new law that...
View ArticleRespect the presidency, whether you voted for the incumbent or not
On April 6, 2009, Raila Odinga, then Prime Minister in the Grand Coalition Government, bitterly complained that he had been given a lousy reception in Mombasa. Addressing the public, he ranted on how...
View ArticleFor a better Kenya, register to vote
The political temperatures are about to hit the boiling point. The political players have been working overtime to fan the flames. As with the Kenyan politics, we are heading to that season when name...
View ArticleMedia should focus on manifestos, policies not personalities ahead of polls
The interest and expected role of the media in the political life of Kenya is becoming intriguing day-by-day, especially as politicians extend ownership of media stations and co-opt journalists in...
View ArticleRaila Odinga has again sensed defeat in presidential poll
On July 12, 2007, with President Mwai Kibaki’s re-election bid drawing close, ODM leader Raila Odinga went on national TV and claimed that the government was withholding identity cards from voters in...
View ArticleAfrica must break the barriers that inhibit its growth
The people who call the continent of Africa home have never lived at a better time than this. The potential of Africa is open for the world to see. According to a World Bank report, child mortality has...
View ArticleWhy Kalonzo should join Jubilee
The mice, frustrated by the constant dangers of the cat, met in council to determine a solution to their tiring challenge. They discussed, and equally rejected, plan after plan. Eventually, a very...
View ArticleUnderfunding should not excuse counties from performing
At least 6,000 delegates and all governors in Kenya converge in Nakuru this week to take stock of devolution, four years after it was effected. It is a unique opportunity that would see virtually every...
View ArticleWhat NASA can learn from Gideon’s Army
Bellum se ipsum alet. This is a Latin phrase that loosely translates to: “The war shall feed itself”. This was a common military stratagem in Roman times through the middle ages to Medieval times. It...
View ArticleMudavadi & Kalonzo will betray Raila, take this to the bank!
Politics is a game of chess and Raila is a king in checkmate! He is in a precarious position. Every move on the board reveals that the man is cheated and will soon be short changed! Yes! Raila is...
View ArticleIs Raila facing isolation within NASA?
As I was coming to work on Monday morning, I passed by this news vendor who had headlines screaming purporting that Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga was still the front-runner in the presidential...
View ArticleRaila’s “Change the Constitution” threat is recipe for chaos
To understand NASA’s presidential candidate, Raila Odinga, one needs to be immersed fully in the rich English idioms and metaphors. The English saying that “You cannot teach an old dog a new trick,”...
View Article100 years of failure
American novelist John Burroughs once said: “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.” Raila Odinga, Musyoka Kalonzo, Moses Wetang’ula, Musalia Mudavadi...
View ArticleNasa is falling apart at the ODM seams
That the so-called ‘National Super Alliance’ has been a phony and a fraud from the beginning has been amply demonstrated of late, not least by the fact that it was never registered as a political...
View ArticleMatching Kenyan’s ambitions
These elections take place at an intersection of Kenyan history. Immediately after Independence, and we shook of foreign rule, Kenyan leaders had the gigantean task of building a nation out of a former...
View ArticleNASA’s Strategic Blunders that could cost them the Presidency
A man rushes into General Julius Caesar’s tent and says, “Sir, Pompey’s men are deploying for battle!!” It’s the morning of 9th August 46 BC, Pharsalus, Greece. Caesar has been declared an outlaw by...
View ArticleTrustworthiness, Presidential Politics and when to say “Enough”
“Trust me”. The two words no one takes seriously when coming from the mouth of a politician. Indeed, it is trustworthiness, or in Raila’s case, the lack of it which will determine this election,...
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