Chasing Umra: The Governor Lamu Almost Had

I remember where I was on the day that the results of the Lamu Gubernatorial race were announced. Saturday 13 August 2022. I sat on the living room rug of my childhood home in Mombasa watching the votes get counted on a TV that never saw darkness until the final votes were tallied and the winners announced. Issa Timamy had secured 33% of the votes in Lamu, with Fahim Twaha not trailing too far behind with 30%. 

Kenya At 60, A Reflection

The year 2023 is monumental for the Pan-African movement and Kenya. On 25 May 1963, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was founded in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, by thirty two leaders from the then independent African countries. This was seven months before Kenya’s independence. After accomplishing its main duty which at that time, was liberation […]