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Columnists November 10, 20251 Min Read

Unintended consequences of labour disputes in varsities

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

Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Published Date: 2025-11-07 00:00:00 Author: By Mate Tongola Source: The Standard

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

A ship offloads cargo at the Port of Mombasa. [File, Standard] A recent forum hosted by…

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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Let's tackle silent hazard of CO2 pollution in our vehicles, homes

It’s the kind of place you have probably passed a hundred times without realising it’s a hotbed of conspiracy theories and whispered tales. READ…

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Babies' deaths in Kiambu must be a national concern

This week reports emerged that over 100 children died in the past year in Kiambu alone due to a doctors’ strike. Of course, attribution is…

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What if Ruto is on right path?

President William Ruto lays the foundation stone for the construction of Maua Modern Market in Meru County, on April 2, 2025. [File, Standard] I…

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Kenya doesn't need new leaders to steer progress, it needs new voters

Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Published Date: 2025-10-05 00:00:00 Author: By Betty Njeru Source: The Standard

The colonial legacy of 'kitchen totos' and 'shamba boys' lives on

Columnists September 15, 20251 Min Read

Africa must unite to escape exploitation by the West and East

Columnists April 29, 20257 Mins Read

Ruto pulse: President who eats, sleeps and dreams of changing how everything is done

Columnists September 10, 20251 Min Read

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

Columnists November 6, 20251 Min Read

Yes, let's fish seedlings from the air and supplant them to earn carbon-credits

Columnists October 10, 20254 Mins Read

Trump's hand in relocation of UN bodies from New York to Nairobi

Columnists August 9, 20251 Min Read

Farouk Kibet's efforts might help UDA to win Malava by-election contest

Columnists August 18, 20251 Min Read

'New opposition' should make its presence felt in Parliament

Columnists June 5, 20258 Mins Read

Detention of six activists in Dar exposes cracks in foreign policy

Columnists May 24, 20251 Min Read

The scorn in a tired overused shoe thrown at the President

Columnists May 10, 20251 Min Read

Getting an early taste of electoral politics, and genesis of our deformed democratic cultures

Columnists October 23, 20251 Min Read

The President is beating drums of war against his own people

Columnists July 12, 20251 Min Read

When Mammon becomes the master

Columnists September 20, 20251 Min Read

Ruto's warm reception evidence of political maturity in Mt Kenya

Columnists April 3, 20257 Mins Read

Murkomen defends police extortion as Bill on "transport" levy gets under way

Columnists September 19, 20251 Min Read

Let's keep fire of EAC dream burning

Columnists May 24, 20251 Min Read

How confusion in opposition guarantees Ruto's comeback

Columnists August 5, 20252 Mins Read

Crushing defiance and ignoring graft sends the wrong message

Columnists July 2, 20251 Min Read

Why 2027 polls must be all about the economy

Columnists July 27, 202511 Mins Read

Hooray, the Nanyuki-Rumuruti road is getting paved, we'll monitor closely

Columnists November 6, 20251 Min Read

Is the Finance Bill 2025 about boxing or dancing?

Columnists June 9, 20251 Min Read

When you thought democracy was growing in EA, dictators sprouted

Columnists May 25, 20251 Min Read

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

Columnists October 26, 20252 Mins Read

Let's tackle silent hazard of CO2 pollution in our vehicles, homes

Columnists May 17, 20251 Min Read