WAGING WARS ON CIVIL SOCIETIES

Governments in Africa have not demonstrated hospitality to criticism especially countries that are ruled by despots and strong men, who have zero respect to human rights and freedoms. Strong men who are deluded that the presence of civil societies and affording their citizens unlimited human rights and freedoms poses threat to them having unfettered access

STEP-FATHER.

I was raised by a single-parent, my mother always stressed the values of hard work, honesty, humility and most important the fear of the God. These values acted as guideposts in our household and informed any decision-making process. Involvement of multiplicity of voices with diverse perspectives improves quality of decision making, and this was highly

DOUBLE STANDARDS

Politicians need to secure the professional services of political think-tankers to proceed apace and birth other policies apart from fighting corruption, which can be used to create political sugar-rush and woo voters during the campaign period. Politicians should be made aware that touting assault on corruption as apolitical policy is now all too familiar and

women empowerment groups roasted..

In 2003, immediately after the cusp of the election victory where the preferred candidate of the incumbent was handed a political drubbing, the then minister of justice and constitutional affairs, Mr Kiraitu Murungi, was involved in a tiff with organisations that champion and aggressively advocate for the emancipation of women rights and gender rights. The

DISSAPOINTED GRADUATES

Calloused hands holding tattered brown envelopes filled with copies of tightly phrased curriculum vitae and academic certificates, heads bowed staring at wrinkled shoes with peeled soles. This is the sad situation of graduates shuffling out of offices begging for jobs and pleading for internships in vain. Distraught unemployed graduates walking around with a sheaf of

ELECTIONS IN AFRICA

African elections are traditionally colourful processes awash with political pop: politicians securing the services of think-tankers to write glittering manifestos, launching of political blueprints, holding of rallies where hundreds of supporters cheer with unstinting vim and unalloyed enthusiasm and hate speech during political meetings is in abundant supply. Political competitors in an attempt to outdo

OF POLITICIANS AND THEIR PROMISES

The government has not been coy in declaring that they are making inroads in the opposition strongholds and that the opposition should prepare for a political drubbing that will consign them to a dustbin of oblivion. This statement of cockiness from the establishment is worrying as pollsters have predicted the forthcoming General elections to be

ASSAULT ON CORRUPTION

Kenyans are deeply embittered with pervasive corruption within government circles and the endemic ineptitude demonstrated by the people and institutions mandated to fight corruption. Prudential management of funds is divorced from government tendering processes and most of government transactions are shrouded in financial opacity or couched in legalese nuance that cannot be comprehended by the

HOMOSEXUALITY

As Africans our upbringing has culturally wired us to be heavily-weighted against the practise of homosexuality or demonstrate hospitality of attitude and temperament towards individuals practising this type of sexual orientation. Majority of the men can stomach lesbianism but only in porn movies because it tickles our fancy and facilitate us to feed the memory

ADMINSTRATING UNIVERSITIES AND THE ATTENDANT HICCUPS

The vice-chancellor of Technical University of Kenya has been vilified and demonised as the embodiment of inefficiency in management of universities and a textbook manifestation of how not to administrate a public university. He has also been unfortunate enough to be used to perpetuate a theory that intellectual depth and know-how of academic matters is