Cameroon’s Incumbent President Paul Biya, of the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement party, wait to casts his vote during the Presidential elections in Yaounde, Cameroon.[FILE] Charles Dunbar Burgess King, a presidential candidate for the True Whig Party during the 1927 Presidential elections in Liberia, was sweating it out against Thomas Jefferson Richelieu Faulkner of the People’s Party. Interestingly, the registered voters were 19,000 and Faulkner garnered 9,000 votes (47.4 per cent). However, in the Kenyan style ‘Tharaka Nithi Moment’ style, King pulled a surprise win with a humongous figure of 230,000 votes out of 19,000 (1,211 per cent). In the previous…
Author: By Lucas Kimanthi
A general view of the logo of the African Union. (Amanuel Sileshi / AFP) The African Union (AU) is like a club of buddies whose purpose is to protect the interests of its peers regardless of how cheeky and wayward they are. The current state of affairs in Africa prompts the question; does the AU serve the interests of the African citizens or does it exist to protect the status quo of the African leaders. The AU never calls out gross human rights violations, massacres and electoral theft. Instead, it issues congratulatory messages when despots tighten their hold on power…
Prof Makau Mutua during an interview at Spice FM. [File, Standard] Prof Makau Mutua and I come from a community with a proverbial saying, mutinda na mukundu ndaema ukunduka, loosely translating to, he who enjoys the company of people with skin epidemics, will also get disease-ridden. Now you know why the good old professor is about to start itching and scratching his shiny head. I have had a lot of respect for Prof Mutua for many reasons. One, because he is my elder brother, and besides that, I looked upon him and the likes of Dr Willy Mutunga as people who walked…