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Agriculture and devolution: Time to close missing links

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

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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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After years of smooth music streaming, Spotify now insists on ads that I paid to avoid

Spotify logo displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) I have been enjoying Spotify for a while,…

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Time to smell soccer money fast like the Americans

The vitality, drive and aliveness with which both pro and anti-establishment politicians from Western Kenya have ganged up to take on President Ruto’s government…

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