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Loyalty to human rights beyond the ICC and immediate national interest

Kenyan media coverage of the presence of Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir at the ceremony marking the official promulgation of the new constitution has pitted those who view his presence as a smudge on...

Book Review: Loyalism and Mau Mau

The two related themes in Kenya's history that have drawn the most debate and interpretations are land and the Mau Mau war. Daniel Branch's study is amongst the most recent analyses of the Mau Mau conflict....

Kenya's military public display does not breach security

Once again I am perturbed by the level of ignorance displayed by Dominic Odipo's editorial in The Standard (August 30, 2010). It is amazing that the Standard and other print media often allow their editorial...

2009 Census Released

Kenya's minister of Planning, Wycliffe Oparanya, has released the results of the 2009 census. 

Why Kenya would not (and could not) arrest Bashir

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir’s surprise appearance on Friday at the promulgation ceremony in Nairobi has sparked outrage from within and without Kenya. Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal...

The Curious Case of the Promulgation That Didn’t

August 27th 2010, Kenya Promulgates Constitution

Kenya's Promulgation Day: A Time To Hope

Glocal Strategies in Kenya's LGBTI Activism

Just a theory

Constitution: Rent on Land

Constitution: Debunking the myth of Rift Valley's "No" Vote

Kenyan Constitution: To promulgate or not to promulgate

Constitutions alone don’t change nations

Beware the Presidency

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Arts and Culture

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Let's re-write history

shall we?  what if there was no scramble for Africa? would Nkurumah have emerged to be the great Pan-African leader he became? would Idi Amin have become the tyranny we remember him to be? ...

Theatre Review: The Ten Commandments

The Ten Kenyan Commandments currently showing at Alliance Francaise is a Heartstrings Kenya production conceptualized by Dan Nadambuki aka “Churchill” and directed by Sammy Mwangi and Victor...

Invisible

My name is Njuguna, Gush to my close friends. I am here, but I am invisible, this is why you don't see me. I am the boy who sells you groundnuts on Uhuru Highway. I am the short boy with slightly curly...

Review: News Made in Kenya (play)

"It will come as no surprise to many of us that Kenyans drink, eat, belch, vomit, and breathe the Media," announces the flyer from News Made in Kenya a play by Heartstrings Kenya. 

Review: Burden of Peace

I have just seen The Burden of Peace , a documentary about the impact of the post-election violence on Kenya's women.

Review: Say You Are One of Them

Fresh Paint

Adornments

Love Lost

Film Review: Seeking the Soul of the Soul Boy

Death by Dominoes

Homeland by George Obama (Review)

Lamentations

Haiti Cherie

Africa's Media Explosion

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Finance and Economics

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Cereal Numbers

Last year, Kenya experienced the worst food crisis in her history, more than 10 million facing the prospect of starvation. In a letter to the IMF in May 2009, Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and central...

Reforming motor insurance

As news from the insurance industry goes, the announcement of the revival of previously fallen Invesco Insurance Company was big news. The insurer was resuscitated by the matatu industry, which was...

Big milk cheese

With a dairy cattle population estimated at nearly 7million, the largest such herd in Africa and more than the rest of the countries in East and Southern Africa combined, Kenya is the third-largest...

Massive crop failure in "grain basket"

Two months before harvest time, the maize in Kenya's Rift Valley should be tall, lush and green, bursting with life. Instead, crops in the province's Lare division are stunted, barren fields of parched...

Hand in Mouth: National Security, Food and Doha

Thanks to Wall Street, this is the season forwestern-country bashing. God knows I have sickened of it. My qualm with thebashing is not its veracity -- at least on certain levels. I just resent thesupremacist...

How does the greatest bull run of all times end?

The Budget Speech 2009

Reflections on the Budget Speech

ENG Kenya unveils the ‘Largest Billboard in East Africa”

Helping Kenyan farmers at the touch of a button

A warning before time: the AngloDisease

The end of regulatory arbitrage

Dead Aid: A review

Is Safaricom Ready for Disruption?

Uhuru and the CMA

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Science and Technology

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The mobile technology hype

I read an article from the online site Mobile Behaviour a few weeks ago in which the author made the very obvious observation ‘mobility connects one person to another’. I mention this because one of...

Book Review - Oil on the Brain

Oil on the Brain by Lisa Margonelli was recommended by Paul Sankey at the 2009 Energy Information Administration Conference as a book that provided great insight into the oil industry. I have had it...

Enter the Elephant

In The Happiness Hypothesis , psychology professor Jonathan Haidt compares human brain/behavior to a man riding an elephant. There exists a complex choreography between our newer rational cortex (the...

Can we live without the Mau Forest?

In the mountains above the Masai Mara, turmoil reigns. The mountain forest of Mau is being fought for. News is coming in of land disputes taking place, with forest being destroyed and inhabitants being...

Obama Calls for Agricultural Development, Not Aid

American president Barack Obama wants the United States, the world's largest provider of food aid, to focus on agricultural development in the countries it helps support, rather than having them remain...

Naivasha MP to Push for Furadan Ban

The Mara in Crisis

African Coastal Populations at Risk as Climate Changes

Will it Be Phones or Computers that Close the Digital Divide?

Tex-Mex Hog Sniffles

Kenya: land of the Lion no longer?

Malaria control: a new method

The Bio-safety Bill vs Organic Farming

Could GMOs Turn Kenyans into Bioserfs?

Making the case for wind power, again

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Traveller

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Surviving Germany

Of course, I knew what to expect when I got to Germany! The “experts” in Kenya had briefed me on everything necessary for survival in that cold land—cold in more ways than one. The oft repeated...

Dear India

Dear India, I remember the first time I came to see you. You were enchanting through my eyes. It was a long journey to get to you. I was shivering when I finally met you with goose pimples all over my...

Visiting home and feeling the foreign pinch

New Year’s Greetings, I am reading Christine Stephanie Nicholls’ Red Strangers: The White Tribe of Kenya. The makeda calls lighter skinned black people yellow and my brother was once told...

Canadian Arctic

Amman please fix the slideshow. Thanks It's not the first place you would think of for a vacation, or even a travel destination.  As a matter of fact, I only went there because a travel writer acquaintance...

A photo essay on Nepal

In 1986, I traveled to Nepal, through India, making my first trip out of North America; my first chance to see how the rest of the world lives.

Motorshow: Concours d'Elegance

A Road Less Travelled in Tsavo

Peru: Macchu Pichu

Mombasa Raha?

Abseiling in Swaziland (Updated)

LA: America's Epicentre

Las Vegas calling

Darkness, Global Warming, and Sex

Nigeria calling

Bangkok, the hub of South East Asia

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Crime and Football

The soccer world cup will be played in one of the most crime-ridden countries in the world. Let us hope we do not have another incident similar to to what happened to the Togo team at the Africa Cup of...

Liveblog: IRB Sevens 2010 Las Vegas

Liveblog: IRB Sevens 2010 Las Vegas

   Photo: CC This weekend, the Kenyan national Rugby Sevens team is in Las Vegas on its continual quest for a championship. An international crowd favorite...

Coming Into the Cold

If you're in the diaspora and find yourself staring hatefully at banks of snow, think about adopting a new sports team or athlete this winter. The Olympics are kicking off today, and if you are housebound...

FA Cup: Arsenal FC 2 West Ham United 1

Alright, I have to admit I am one of those who were looking at the match and thinking, especially after Manchester United's defeat to Leeds that we would be competing for just the Premier League and the...

Arsenal 3 Aston Villa 0

This match is being reported as having been turned by the Cesc Fabregas cameo that supplied two goals, a beautiful direct free-kick and a characteristically devastating finish to a team counter-attack....

Kenya Should Invest in Sports

Usain Bolt: Eyes on the Prize Beyond the Finish Line

Caster Semenya and a Question of Gender

Caster-way?

Monday Puzzle VI: Meno

Monday Puzzle IV

Monday Puzzle 3

Beijing: The XXIX Olympiad

Monday Puzzle

Against all odds; Turkey in Europe

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