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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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We have engaged reverse gear with budget cuts in education, health sectors

Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Published Date: 2025-05-20 00:00:00 Author: By Mike Kihaki Source: The Standard

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Mama Samia provides dash of Dar hospitality to top Kenyan activists

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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

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Ruto, Parliament standoff over graft is good news for Kenyans

Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Live Published Date: 2025-08-24 00:00:00 Author: By Josphat Thiong’o Source: The Standard

Murkomen has reason to smile, giving 'promise of timeline' to equip CCTV cameras

Columnists June 19, 20251 Min Read

Reduce education and health costs to win back the trust of Kenyans

Columnists August 11, 20251 Min Read

NIS boss, Kahariri's objective is achieved; public is talking about security

Columnists April 7, 20257 Mins Read

Candid conversations on state of the nation make striking conclusions on Ruto presidency

Columnists July 25, 20254 Mins Read

Why the work is cut for the Opposition ahead of 2027

Columnists May 17, 20251 Min Read

Forgiveness must address parents living with graves of their children

Columnists June 1, 202511 Mins Read

Types of political power seekers and why youths hold key to better Kenya

Columnists April 27, 20251 Min Read

America has sneezed and the rest of the world has caught a cold

Columnists April 9, 20256 Mins Read

The hearth vs flat screen TV: The winner is

Columnists August 25, 20251 Min Read

Babies' deaths in Kiambu must be a national concern

Columnists October 4, 20256 Mins Read

Penpoints, gunpoints, and dreams, as literary scholars experience Ngugi's Kenya first-hand

Columnists June 26, 20251 Min Read

Mama Samia provides dash of Dar hospitality to top Kenyan activists

Columnists May 22, 20251 Min Read

When demeaning demands turn politics into a humiliation theatre

Columnists August 16, 20251 Min Read

Theatre of the absurd takes root as Kenya Kwanza's manifesto

Columnists April 11, 20252 Mins Read

Westlands market's beauty and how self-regulation has kept it spick and span

Columnists October 8, 20255 Mins Read

A roach showed up for dessert at a fine city diner, we all responded with calm

Columnists April 10, 20251 Min Read

Let us celebrate the well-run counties and shame the rest

Columnists August 16, 20256 Mins Read

Letter from Massachusetts, the citadel of American intellectualism

Columnists September 6, 202511 Mins Read

Kenyan link in Afrikaners' land woes

Columnists May 17, 20251 Min Read

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

Columnists November 2, 20252 Mins Read

Judas' betrayal: Kenya's quest for Paradise and the lessons to be learnt this Easter season

Columnists April 20, 20251 Min Read

Get ready, 'Soundtrack To a Coup D'etat' will simply blow your mind

Columnists May 9, 20253 Mins Read

Behold, the crowning glory of a doctorate from Bus Stop Number 9, Lagos, Nigeria

Columnists September 18, 20251 Min Read

What if Ruto is on right path?

Columnists September 26, 20252 Mins Read