Barack Obama is easily the happiest and most fulfilled person in the world today. The Obama family begins a new life this weekend, after a successful eight-year tour of duty in the White House. Over this time, Obama has diligently held the American tiger by the tail. He has successfully walked it through a global […]Read More

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has this week rolled out its roadmap to next year’s general election. The programme gives the steps that Kenyans will walk through in what is expected to be a democratic process – from recruitment of registration officials all the way to voting and announcement of winners. However, the […]Read More

The failure of Burundi peace talks to take off this week should worry Africa. President Pierre Nkurunziza has distinguished himself as the reigning bad boy of Eastern Africa. This has not been without the abetment of his continental peers. Africa’s ruling class looked on tight-lipped as Burundi’s pot began boiling over, about this time last […]Read More

For four hundred years, the African was a commercial item in international trade. The Transatlantic Slave Trade flourished from the 15th to the late 19th centuries, at the expense of Africa. For the African was the most sought for item in this trade, also known as the Middle Passage Trade, or the Triangular Trade. A […]Read More

Today Kenya marks the 52nd Jamhuri, a divided nation. The very thought of a “divided nation” is of course a philosophical absurdity. How could you be at once a nation and divided? It is a contradiction between two valid realities, a philosophical antinomy. We live together as the Kenyan “nation.” But it is also true […]Read More

When you write a column such as I do, you often find yourself in the wilderness. You live in a veritable ideological wasteland. Like the man Isaiah in the Christian Old Testament and John the Baptist in The New Testament, you are permanently crying out in the wilderness, engaged in a lonely dialogue of the […]Read More