Opinion
Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua. The Constitution bars anyone who has been impeached from holding public office. [File, Standard] The Good Book says: “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.” Anything short of that is…
A child holds a plate. [GettyImages] This week Kenyan media published a harrowing story with the headline “Chief Clears Orphans To Beg For School Fees.” The chief’s sign and blessing of such humiliation is not charity, it is…
Students in a class. [GettyImages] Technology is the quintessential modern dilemma: while we enthusiastically embrace the…
Students in a class. [GettyImages] Technology is the quintessential modern dilemma: while we enthusiastically embrace the…
Martin Luther King Jr. remains one of the clearest answers to a question the church and…
Judicial Service Commission Chairperson Martha Koome. [File, Standard] Kenya is a country of many challenges in law, democracy and governance amidst a reassuring Constitution that teaches us whenever it is tested in courts, that it can endure the most trying…
The war against drugs and drug abuse can only be won through decisive action. [Courtesy] Kenya’s renewed fight against alcohol and drug abuse has entered a…
Weekly Opnions Round Up
A young farmer. [Courtesy/GettyImages] When elections end, expectations begin and they begin fast. Life does not come with a pause button. School fees are…
Protestors along the Nakuru-Eldoret highway at Free Area during the nationwide Saba Saba demonstrations on July 7, 2025. [Kipsang Joseph/Standard] I love cross border…
Ariel view of Brookhurst International Schools.[Courtesy] Kenya’s embrace of international education has accelerated over the past decade, and the surge in IGCSE and A-Level…
Gen-Z protesters along Kenyatta Avenue as they remembered 60 young people who died in last year’s finance bill demonstrations on June 25, 2025. [Kanyiri Wahito,…
