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Columnists November 10, 20251 Min Read

Unintended consequences of labour disputes in varsities

By Hudson Gumbihi

Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Published Date: 2025-11-11 00:00:00 Author: By Hudson Gumbihi Source: The Standard

November 10, 20251 Min Read

Why Suluhu's despotic disposition is bad for democracy in Tanzania

November 9, 20251 Min Read

Why university's attempt to revive oral tradition and history is important

November 9, 20258 Mins Read

Suluhu, Africa's strongmen have met their match in youth protest

November 9, 20252 Mins Read

Raila Odinga: The diplomat many didn't know

November 8, 20251 Min Read

What many didn't know, Raila was Africa's diplomat per excellence

November 7, 20256 Mins Read

Tanzania's political instability risks spreading in the region

The occupational hazards of dealing with thieves, and idiots with overdrawn accounts

Columnists November 6, 2025

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Prezzo Suluhu's solution to Tz's manufactured crisis is to blame alien 'creatures'

November 6, 20251 Min Read

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Why invisible tariffs should keep us awake at night

November 4, 20259 Mins Read

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Why invisible tariffs should akeep us awake at night

November 3, 20251 Min Read

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Ruto will bag Luo votes if he picks Mama Ida as a running-mate

November 3, 2025

How Uhuru helped to turn Raila's grave into a shrine

November 2, 2025

Why would Mama Suluhu be so cosy as regional peace haven burns?

November 2, 2025

Ruto ought not chest thump when Raila's spirit is with us

November 2, 2025

Those who seek Raila's political mantle must carry his burden

October 30, 2025

As we mourned, 2025 Nobel prize winners were named

Columnists October 27, 2025

Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Published Date: 2025-10-28 00:00:00 Author: By Sharon Wanga Source: The Standard

Unforeseen events have conspired to give President the upper hand

Columnists October 27, 20251 Min Read

Muthoni Likimani: 100-year-old Mau Mau veteran still going strong

Columnists October 26, 2025

How Raila Odinga's death has exposed political warriors, parasites

Columnists October 26, 2025

When leadership forgets about taxpayer, nation pays the price

Columnists October 26, 2025

Is it grief or guilt that in death, we find grace we denied in life

Columnists October 26, 2025

To heal country's wounds, we must trade tribal loyalty with integrity

Columnists October 25, 2025

Beyond Raila: Will Kenya now face a spectre of political, economic winter?

Columnists October 25, 2025

Raila's exit lays bare Kenya's political warriors and parasites

Columnists October 25, 2025

From defence to offence: Trump's quest to revive the warrior spirit

Columnists October 25, 2025

Columnists October 25, 20251 Min Read

Parasites and warriors exposed by Raila's death

Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Published Date: 2025-10-26 00:00:00 Author: By Ronald Kipruto Source: The Standard

Why Kalonzo Musyoka should consider joining Ruto's camp

Columnists October 24, 2025

Debunking norms and customs, and folly of right hand knowing what the left does

Columnists October 23, 2025

Praise song for the dead, who clarify our purpose and meaning in this life

Columnists October 23, 2025

Business Weekly Round Up

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A guard of honour comes to the rescue, as tech fails to deliver visitors to KU Referral Hospital

Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Published Date: 2025-08-22 00:00:00 Author: By Joackim Bwana and Patrick Beja Source: The Standard

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UoN, Taifa Hall: Site of departure, site of return for Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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Ruto is not empowering youth; he is manipulating them with fake mercy

Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Published Date: 2025-08-13 00:00:00 Author: By Lewis Nyaundi and Mike Kihaki Source: The Standard

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We've 'killed' God by allowing politicians to abuse the pulpit

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Ruto ought not chest thump when Raila's spirit is with us

Columnists November 2, 20253 Mins Read

Kenya requires a foreign policy grounded on reality not rhetoric

Columnists October 4, 20251 Min Read

Kenya Kwanza's tragi-comedy of stattering communications

Columnists September 28, 20252 Mins Read

Research not a preserve of the West

Columnists July 20, 202510 Mins Read

AG should initiate review of all laws on mandatory sentences

Columnists July 19, 20258 Mins Read

Citizens have power to change wanting quality of leadership

Columnists May 21, 20251 Min Read

'Ruto Must Go' and Foucault's 'refusal to be governed' counsel

Columnists April 3, 20258 Mins Read

Changed face of Kenya's protests

Columnists July 5, 20251 Min Read

The unspoken deal: Trump and Putin have split the world

Columnists September 6, 20251 Min Read

Ruto will bag Luo votes if he picks Mama Ida as a running-mate

Columnists November 3, 20251 Min Read

Cheers to Kenyan trio brewing muratina for fun in California

Columnists September 16, 20251 Min Read

Embu Governor Mbarire fights shadows in broad daylight, wailing, 'Come, baby come'

Columnists June 5, 20251 Min Read

When pulpits are reformed, polling stations redeem themselves again

Columnists October 12, 20251 Min Read

Cheer Harambee Stars with an eye on the fly in our soup

Columnists August 16, 20251 Min Read

What the height of toilet bowls say about the quality of life in Togo and Senegal

Columnists October 2, 20251 Min Read

What Ruto will likely do to win Kenyans' confidence and votes in 2027

Columnists April 22, 20258 Mins Read

Rafiki: of tastier Kenyan cuisine in Pacific Northwest

Columnists September 9, 20251 Min Read

Legislators' enhanced interest in foreign policy is good for Kenya

Columnists June 29, 20251 Min Read

Here is your chance to help craft a citizen-friendly Finance Bill

Columnists May 14, 20251 Min Read

Raila no longer excites the masses; his magic wand has lost its potency

Columnists July 14, 20251 Min Read

Huge infrastructure projects might boost Ruto's re-election bid

Columnists April 29, 20251 Min Read

Reforms or brutal crackdown? How Gen Z revolt puts Kenya at turning point

Columnists June 29, 202525 Mins Read

You don't empower people with Sh200, salivating at their votes

Columnists July 20, 20258 Mins Read

President's charade on Parliamentary bribery is distraction from self guilt

Columnists August 24, 20259 Mins Read