Not delivered - equality and equal access
When President Mwai Kibaki last year unilaterally appointed Alnashir Visram, Githu...
In solidarity with the doctors' union
In solidarity with the doctors' union. We are all together in thisIn early May this...
Occupy Oakland & Mercenaries of the Oligarchy: The 99% vs. The Iron Heel
"We are in power. Nobody will deny it. By virtue of that power we shall remain in...
Kenya’s Invasion of Somalia: Perils and Pitfalls
After so many years of threatening to invade Somalia, Kenya is finally on Somali...
Let's not be tempted to invade Somalia
Al-Shabaab is essentially an internal issue for Somalia and Somalis. Kenya has no...
Catfish: What’s the Social Networked Internet good for?
The jury is still out on the motion picture Catfish; is it a documentary, a faux...
What Africa Needs
I will sit by the fire tonight, Here under the stars, Here surrounded by the desert...
Imagining Utopia in Stephen Derwent Partington’s How to Euthanise a Cactus
How to Euthanise a Cactus opens with the word “Nightmare” and ends with the...
Book Review - Not a Chance
The dedication at the beginning of the book reads: “This book is also dedicated...
Invisible
My name is Njuguna, Gush to my close friends. I am here, but I am invisible, this...
Capital transfer from developing countries
How do multinationals and unethical companies conceal and move capital abroad? It...
Chewing on it: - thoughts on food production
This has probably been better written elsewhere, but it is odd that very few in Kenya...
Cereal Numbers
Last year, Kenya experienced the worst food crisis in her history, more than 10...
Reforming motor insurance
As news from the insurance industry goes, the announcement of the revival of previously fallen...
Big milk cheese
With a dairy cattle population estimated at nearly 7million, the largest such herd...
Living by green values
The United Nations Environmental Programme and the wider United Nations family in...
The mobile technology hype
I read an article from the online site Mobile Behaviour a few weeks ago in which...
Book Review - Oil on the Brain
Oil on the Brain by Lisa Margonelli was recommended by Paul Sankey at the 2009 Energy...
Enter the Elephant
In The Happiness Hypothesis , psychology professor Jonathan Haidt compares human...
Can we live without the Mau Forest?
In the mountains above the Masai Mara, turmoil reigns. The mountain forest of Mau...
3,000 dinars under the snow
When my friend and I landed in Belgrade the temperature was -15 centigrade and it...
Responsible profit is possible - development tourism
As we wound down our Northern hemisphere summer season with a big smile of satisfaction...
Surviving Germany
Of course, I knew what to expect when I got to Germany! The “experts” in Kenya...
Dear India
Dear India, I remember the first time I came to see you. You were enchanting through...
Visiting home and feeling the foreign pinch
New Year’s Greetings, I am reading Christine Stephanie Nicholls’ Red Strangers:...
