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Our systems of governance have increasingly become heartless. Insensitive to the plight of the poor. Exploiting poverty for political power.
Our elections become exercises in political optics, coalition theatrics, and ethnic mobilisation, rather than serious debates about leadership, governance, and the common good.
Not only the Northern Kenya leaders owe Kenyans an explanation over underdevelopment of their counties but all counties, beginning with Nairobi County as the seat of national leadership.
As we head to the next general election, I propose that Parliament, for once, acts with the interest of future generations at heart.
The government's National Youth Opportunities Towards Advancement Project, which is funded by the World Bank, is a great idea.
The news media have kept to their mandate as public watchdogs.
After a heavy week of attending physical and online debates on the use of Artificial Intelligence for teaching and learning
Think about the ‘goonism’ culture characterising the ongoing political campaigns.
The United Opposition has a year and a half to prove to Kenyans that indeed it is an alternative government in waiting.
Road madness in Kenya is unbelievable.
Money and top positions in government give one power to decide on the measure of dignity this individual, that tribe, that part of the country, or those others should get.
Within mainstream churches, this week is known as the Holy Week.
The flying political jabs we are witnessing as we gear up to the 2027 General Election offer a glimpse of the neck-to-neck political competition ahead of us.
If the opposition seeks to become a serious contender against the incumbent, it needs to move beyond criticism and define a signature rallying call that speaks directly to citizens frustrations.
Books, journals, and long-form academic texts, once seen as the mark of intellectual depth, are now treated as optional or even irrelevant.
Firstly, a significant strategic advantage for the Opposition lies in the profound familiarity its leading figures possess regarding President Ruto's political modus operandi.
President Samia Suluhu recently said Tanzanian and Kenyan youth should be caned if they dare to protest under the pretext of democracy.
Rising fuel prices, economic hardship, and unresolved grievances from strikes and Gen Z protests are deepening public anger and risking wider unrest in Kenya.
AI-driven optical character recognition and computer vision can audit physical tallying forms scanned at polling stations against digital data transmitted to the national tallying centre.
Is this the moment in our independence history when we have to harvest what we have planted over the past 63 years?
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