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…
Mwalimu David Kakuta Mulwa, a legendary icon in the Kenyan creative industry with over 50 years of vast experience and having inspired generations after generations…
Weekly Opnions Round Up
An invigilator shares English exam paper to Moi Avenue Primary School candidates sitting for this year’s Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE), on Monday , March 07 2022.[FILE,Standard]…
More often than not, living as a migrant means eternally existing in a long-distance emotional marathon. The suitcase is never fully shut, yet old…
President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Vice President after grand coalition parliamentary Group meeting at KICC.[FILE/Standard Several vice and deputy presidents…
United opposition led by Peoples’s Liberation Party leader Martha Karua and Wiper counterpart Kalonzo Musyoka during a press briefing in Nairobi on July 31, 2025.…