Opinion
What did you do with the optimism and exuberance of independence? Two young men in their early 20s, wasted no time: Peter Kimani King’ori aka Ndichu wa Kingúra (1947-2020) and Francis Macharia Mbuthia (born 1944). They had just settled in…
Kenya Pipeline Company storage facility in Nairobi. [File, Standard] I was thinking about this privatisation bug that seems to have bitten the powers that be and I concluded that, as much as every government has to set its…
Youth during a past Gen Z protest in Mombasa. To transform Kenya’s youth bulge into a…
The church in Kenya stands again at a moral crossroads. In the last election, it did…
Environmental activist Truphena Muthoni hugs an indigenous tree in Nyeri. [Courtesy] On a cold night in…
President William Ruto during the Jamhuri Day celebrations at Nyayo National Stadium on Friday. [PCS] It was Mozambique’s Moisés Samora Machel who told his countrymen that the day they see their enemies praising him, they must be alert, because that…
The new normal is that we learn about all breaking news, both real and fake, from social media. This is courtesy of “citizen journalism”, where…
Weekly Opnions Round Up
Boda-boda riders in Migori County staged a protest for two days over unfair taxation, bad roads. The riders are from four Sub-Counties which inlcude…
Lifting of the logging ban, which was imposed in 2018 to curb deforestation, may lead to wanton destruction of the key water towers.. [File,…
Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga during a past ODM event. [File, Standard] When celebrated Indian author Bhabani Bhattacharya wrote his book, ‘So Many Hungers!’…
A couple of weeks ago, long before the Finance Bill was published, social media was awash with how the Finance Bill 2025 is such…