Public Square

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The Complex Search for Suspected Rwandan Genocidaires 

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Then They Came for Dr. Margaret Nyakang’o…

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The Tall Order That Is Wanjigi’s and Omtatah’s Call for Declaration of Odious Debt 

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BY Mwalimu Mati

The Tall Order That Is Wanjigi’s and Omtatah’s Call for Declaration of Odious Debt 

Over the last many months, my two good friends, businessman and presidential aspirant Jimi Wanjigi and Busia Senator Okiya Okoiti Omtatah have variously made claims that Kenya’s domestic debt is illeg…
BY Mwalimu Mati

For Financial Sanity, Kenya Should Embrace The R-Word

BY Vincent Ng'ethe

Will Kenya Ever Be Good Enough for Kenyans?

BY Mwende Ngao

“Failed Brakes”, Kenya’s Deadliest Excuse

BY Vincent Ng'ethe

No One in Nairobi Knows Their Height

BY Soila Kenya

Kawira Mwangaza Is Paying for the Sin of Being a Woman

BY Jacqueline Kubania

Ghost Payrolls and Budgeted Corruption: Are We Listening to Dr Nyakang’o?

BY Mwalimu Mati

Lessons from Public Participation in Nairobi County: Digital Isn’t Always Better 

BY Vincent Ng'ethe

We Are Who We Are. Not Lazy. Not Unmotivated. Not Unintelligent.

BY Jacqueline Kubania

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