Introduction
“We must work from the basis that Kenya is a garment of many colours, which is beautiful because each colour is present. We cannot be one colour because we would be dull. Some colours cannot run over others because we would be ugly. We must all stay in place and be bright”
Mayor of Garissa, 2010
This [...]
This is a powerful speech by USA. It throws down some amazing challenges that we Kenyans need to face up to-and also highlights some substantial issues we should deal with; and soon. Answers to the questions asked are especially relevant if Kenya is to move beyond the rut we seem to be stuck in as [...]
Today is 16 years since Jaramogi Oginga Odinga died, & the silence is amazing. I remember how many people I have head talking about this man as their mentor-he has on several occasions been referred to as the doyen (what does that mean exactly?) of Opposition politics, etc. He certainly is many things to many [...]
Kikuyusforchange is a lobby group that was formed in April 2008 by young people from the Kikuyu community who felt that Kenyans need to face-up to the fact that negative ethnicity is a primary source of resistance to the resolution of various issues of national importance, past & present (e.g. the war on impunity & [...]
Press Statement on 22nd December 2009
We express great concern on the recent directive by the Ministry of Internal Security to audit properties & businesses in the Eastleigh area of Nairobi & the Coast Province. We raise this concern because this directive raises the perception and danger of ethnic profiling of members of the Somali community, [...]
Press Conference, 9th October 2009, at Palacina Hotel
Kenya’s change-the-constitution history
It has been argued that the Kenya constitutional process has been the most debated among emerging democracies. It is also clear that constitutional change in Kenya is a challenge as clearly evidenced by the costly failures of the last 17 years.
Kenyans have realized that for [...]
Introduction
Today power continues to be centered on the Presidency with limited checks and balances, resource allocation is skewed against marginalised communities, the Judiciary lacks independence and basic needs are not considered as human rights. The result is that impunity and corruption continue to reign; poverty and inequalities are further entrenched while violence is becoming a [...]
I was walking past the mental hospital the other day. All the patients were shouting, ‘13….13….13.’
The fence was too high to see over, but I saw a little gap in the planks, so I looked through to see what was going on…..
Some crazy idiot poked me in the eye with a stick!
Then, they all started shouting [...]
Written by Chrispus Mbogo & Published in the Daily Nation on 28/09/09
The adverse reactions to the census question on tribe bring to the fore an issue that is our Achilles Heel. It did not help that this fire was stoked by civil society with an expensive promotional campaign to encourage respondents to avoid answering this [...]
In January & February 2007 our country was burning, and amongst the people who stepped in to help us form the government that we now have operating were the Americans. On several occasions since then Kenya has turned to America for assistance in one area or the other. Infact, America facilitated the process that has [...]