As the presidential elections appear around the corner, Kenyans are getting anxious about how they are going to manage an election in a toxic political environment poisoned by ethnic animosity.
In such troubling times, the role of intellectuals is crucial: to help Kenyans clarify the issues, and to help them imagine a different scenario that would help us vote peacefully and with our conscience and intellect - as opposed to violently and according to our primal instincts.
Hassan Omar Hassan's article on Kibaki's Kikuyu-centric presidency captured the very disturbing scenes in the TV news reports about the soaring fuel prices and the volatile Kenyan shilling. read more »
I guess it is in the character of my friend, Sharif Khalill, CEO of Aga Khan Foundation Canada, to put one on a podium before a distinguished assemblage of guests comprising members of the diplomatic community, Members of Parliament, Directors in the Canadian Foreign Affairs Ministry, staff of international development agencies, CEOs from corporate Canada, senior academics, and ask one to get the discussion rolling with a ten-minute ope read more »
Now that Kenyan media have made it their mission to attack women's empowerment campaigns in the name of concern about the boy child, I have decided, as a Kenyan woman, to now fight for the boy child. My first target: traditional initiation rights.
Once again, I am pained to read and respond to yet another anti-human article published by the Nation newspaper which blames women for everyone's problems. I am compelled to repeat what I said in a previous post.
