Audio By Vocalize UASU Secretary General Constantine Wasonga addresses the media on October 12, 2026. [Nicholas Biwott, Standard] Every year since the proclamation of the Constitution in 2010, Kenya celebrates October 20 as ‘Mashujaa Day’ to acknowledge chosen ‘heroes’. Celebrations started in colonial times when Tom Mboya organised mass demonstrations on October 20 to demand Jomo Kenyatta’s release from prison, which became Kenyatta Day. Governments routinely recognise heroes to be those in the Cabinet and high offices. Surprisingly, dubious names occasionally receive the ‘shujaa’ award. A positive aspect is that a few ‘shujaa’ awardees, dead or alive, have shown intellectual…
Author: By Macharia Munene
Audio By Vocalize Poland is turning to Kenya and Africa for new investment opportunities and greater global influence. [Courtesy] These are peculiar times in which big countries watch themselves lose geopolitical power while small ones thrust themselves upwards at the expense of stagnant or declining countries. This phenomenon of states stagnating or declining while a few rise socio-economically and gain geopolitical leverage is clearest in Europe, where new powers overtake entrenched ones. While the stagnation or decline is self-inflicted and externally stimulated, the rise is meticulously orchestrated to take into account new realities and to avoid blunders. One European country…
Audio By Vocalize US President Donald Trump dances after concluding his remarks during a campaign rally at F&M Bank Arena in Clarksville, Tennessee on October 10, 2026. [AFP] In these times of world power reconfiguration, some states are raising geopolitical heads to exercise leverage in the world arena at the expense of the dominant United States of America, which virtually ruled the world for roughly a century, the “American Century”. It was an American world order, imposing American ‘liberalism’ everywhere, at times using such crude tools as coups, assassinations, and even mounting disastrous wars in little countries while avoiding…
Audio By Vocalize Canada’s Prime Minister, Mark Carney.[Courtesy, Hannah McKay/Reuters] Canada is large in territorial size and small in population. In global power projection, it is a middle power just below the superpowers United States, China, and Russia, and stands higher than many ‘Third World’ countries. Like many in the Conceptual West, it is a ‘developed’ rather than a ‘developing’ country and qualifies as a ‘development partner’ to Kenya and other ‘developing’ countries. These terms evolved to reflect geopolitical realities, starting in 1949 when US President Harry S. Truman launched his Point IV Programme to aid the “Under-developed” world in…
Audio By Vocalize Canada’s Prime Minister, Mark Carney.[Courtesy, Hannah McKay/Reuters] Canada is large in territorial size and small in population. In global power projection, it is a middle power just below the superpowers United States, China, and Russia, and stands higher than many ‘Third World’ countries. Like many in the Conceptual West, it is a ‘developed’ rather than a ‘developing’ country and qualifies as a ‘development partner’ to Kenya and other ‘developing’ countries. These terms evolved to reflect geopolitical realities, starting in 1949 when US President Harry S. Truman launched his Point IV Programme to aid the “Under-developed” world in…