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 »
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.
Katrina Lantos Swett issued a rude response to the protests against the award of her human rights prize to Paul Rusesabagina, the hero created by a Hollywood movie.
