Jendayi Frazer: One American’s crusade against the ICC
She operates with the zeal of a big sister defending her little brother from neighbourhood bullies. Whether she is on twitter, addressing an international forum or giving an interview, Jendayi Frazer...
View ArticleWhy charismatic Christianity is steadily going to seed
During Wangari Maathai’s requiem service at the Holy Family Basilica in October 2011, retired Anglican clergyman Desmond Tutu remarked that the mourners, who included the then President Kibaki and...
View ArticleHistory written in Kenya’s political leadership
Kenyans voted in early March for the first time under the new Constitution passed in 2010. Besides being a transitional election, it was one of the elaborate and complex election ever. While in the...
View ArticleBattle between Legislature and Judiciary spills into 2014
When on November 29 President Uhuru Kenyatta suspended six members of the Judicial Service Commission and appointed a tribunal to investigate their conduct, it appeared like the end of a long-drawn-out...
View ArticleTame ‘motor-psychos’ on killer contraptions
There was a time when motorcycles were a symbol of power in Kenya. For one, they were few and far between. There was one which was used by the Inspector of Schools (the only mortal who put the fear of...
View ArticleRaila needs real remake even as ODM revitalises
When he lost the presidential election for the second time in 1997, a columnist urged the then grumbling and petitioning Mwai Kibaki to swallow his pride and take up his position as Leader of...
View ArticleWhere thick skin, blunders qualify one to be first-rate public servant
A thick skin is all you need to be a successful public servant. “Successful applicants must have a skin as thick as that of an old rhino… or show proof they have the potential to quickly grow one as...
View ArticleHow teachers have succeeded in ‘kicking poverty out of schools’
Like the pre-Equity Bank financial institutions, headteachers and the gaggle of scarcely literate eating chiefs, who constitute the boards of management, have decided poverty has no place in...
View ArticleOf new-found convenience truce between senators, MPs
Nothing reminds me of a back-stabbing caricature – the one popular with our cartoonists depicting two people having a bear hug while each one is plotting to stab the other in the back – like the...
View ArticleMatemu’s ‘lack of passion’ for job could be his strength at the Integrity Centre
The anti-corruption battlefield is littered with casualties, some of whom are former colourful generals. There is the inimitable John Harun Mwau, he who ran for president alongside retired President...
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