The Case for Reviving Kenya’s Abandoned Transition

“The struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”  – Milan Kundera. This month marks fifteen years since Kenya’s journey to true nationhood was so viciously interrupted as we descended into 60 days of anarchy, more popularly known as the 2007/8 Post-Election Violence (PEV). That sad chapter in our national history […]

The Quickest Way to Get a Married Woman Into Bed? Choreplay.

To clarify, I mean a married woman who you are married to, and you’re trying to get into bed with. The lag could be for many reasons: work is kicking both your arses. You have kids. Everyone is tired at the end of the day. All of the above.

A Case Against Tampering With Presidential Term Limits

The Constitution of Kenya 2010 provides any Kenyan with the right to propose its rehabilitation. This may be through a parliamentary or a Wanjiku-driven (popular) initiative. The Constitution, however, does not specify the period when or within which this may be done. The success of a proposed amendmendment therefore depends on the alignment of the […]