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
Kenya is not for beginners – another lesson I learned ‘kwa ground’. I migrated back to Kenya in 2020, reverse migration if you will – I had lived in…
This video grab made from a video from the Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation (TBC) shows Samia Suluhu Hassan signing official documents as she takes the…
Residents of Loruk wade through the submerged Marigat–Loruk road, after Lake Baringo’s rising waters flooded the key route, on September 3, 2025. [Kipsang Joseph,…
Kenya’s 2010 Constitution, through Article 1, proclaims that “all sovereign power belongs to the people of Kenya.” This general will — inalienable and indivisible…
