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| Revisiting History: Celebrating Kimathi Day |
 | Revisiting History: Celebrating Kimathi Day
This week, Kenya marks the anniversaries of two arrests. One will be marked by a public holiday and celebrated with fanfare, while the other will be almost completely ignored. The lives of the two suspects, the circumstances surrounding their arrests, and the differing reactions we have to them today, are symbolic of the contradictions at the centre of Kenya’s path to independence and beyond.
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| The Revolution in Middle Age |
 | The Revolution in Middle Age
On 16 January 1979, Iranians woke to headlines declaring that Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi had been deposed. Crowds of jubilant citizens danced in the street, waving newspaper front pages and currency with the Shah's visage excised. This was the culmination of days of demonstrations against the Shah's regime, seen as a capricious rule under which Iran had been treated as the Shah's plaything, and where he had been overly influenced by the United States.
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| Did we learn anything from post-poll violence? |
 | Did we learn anything from post-poll violence?
The question before us one year after the outbreak of electoral violence in Kenya is straightforward: What have we, as Africans, learned? Or thinking about Zimbabwe’s attempts at a Kenya style settlement, have we in fact learned the wrong lessons?
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| Ethnicity abounds: Kenya's identity crisis |
 | Ethnicity abounds: Kenya’s identity crisis
But race is an issue I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now…’ Barack Obama, speech titled ‘A More Perfect Union’, 18 March 2008
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| Britain's Mau Mau |
Britain's Mau Mau
Kenya was always Britain’s most troublesome African colony because it was neither one thing nor the other.
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| Ukweli Hauogopi tisho wala nguvu za majeshi |
Ukweli hauogopi tisho wala nguvu za majeshi
Brothers and Sisters, we meet at a difficult time for many Kenyans - and perhaps it is appropriate to rise for a moment of silence in honour of those Kenyans, some 1,600 souls, who lost their lives during the post-election period.
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| Dedan Kimathi and Me III: Kionyo Patrol, early days |
Dedan Kimathi and Me III: Kionyo Patrol, early days
For four or five days, while the local population established the Police Station, we slept in the open and suffered the encroachment of cloud that went with our 8,000-foot-high location. Conditions were cold and damp. The eleven of us lay in a circle around the Land Rover that contained our radio link to Meru. Unidentified animal life circled around us, presumably curious about our intrusion into their area. On one occasion Albino, an Acholi who was armed with a Greener...
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| Kenya, still a long way from nationhood |
 | Kenya, still a long way from nationhood
Elections are all about choosing persons who
can best represent the interests of the electorate in government. True
representative democracy dictates that elected leaders have only one duty, to
effectively advocate and defend the interests of their constituents. To act
contrary to this social contract is an abdication of their very raison de etre.
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| Dedan Kimathi and Me |
Dedan Kimathi and Me
In the first installment of a series, Peter Swan recalls his service at an exciting time in Kenya's history.
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 | Kenya Police: The Legacy of Colonialism
The history of policing in Kenya is rife with tales of wanton brutality, complicity of the police force in petty and organised crime as well as the abuse of human rights.
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A brief History of Kenya - Part I
The journey to nationhood, for Kenya, begins long before one day in December 1963. A long and tortuous and painful journey that begins with an arbitrary line being drawn on a map.
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| Capturing Dedan Kimathi |
Capturing Dedan Kimathi
I was trawling through the blogosphere when I came across this blog here written out entirely in the Gikuyu language.
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Changing names
Its taken me a while to write this article. I
have been mulling over it forever, trying to find the words to introduce it. I
have not found them yet, well until just there.
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| Ending African History |
Ending African 'History'
French President Nicholas Sarkozy addressed
"Africa's Young" in a speech at the University of Cheik
Anta Diop in
Dakar, Senegal, on July 26, 2007. Africans widely and roundly criticized the speech,
little noted by the U.S. media, as racist and condescending.
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