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Truth Without Fear
Pedestrians outnumber motorists by more than 20 to one, yet we are the ones expected to apologise for existing. The injustice goes deeper than bad manners.
Qualitative approaches value formative assessments over high-stakes exams, fostering resilience in a demographic dividend ripe for exploitation.
Benevolent dictatorship is a sugar rush offering fleeting highs but guarantees a bitter crash. The appeal is understandable.
Kenya’s youth are the real owners of the country. Yet, our electoral system sidelines them until age 18, a threshold that feels increasingly arbitrary.
The Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development is facing criticism over alleged opacity and actions said to undermine constitutional principles in the education sector.
The categorisation of schools into National, Provincial (now Extra-County), County, and District (or Sub-County) tiers is sold as a masterstroke for national cohesion.
Calls are growing to classify election rigging as treason in Kenya, following reports of widespread bribery, intimidation and disinformation in the November 2025 by-elections.
In March 2004, NARC strategised to undermine Kenya’s proposed constitution, with Kiraitu Murungi leading government delegates in a dramatic protest to preserve the powers of the presidency.
We are paying for duplication while the national debt climbs and youth unemployment festers. If we continue this path, by 2032, the fractures may be too deep to mend.
The traffic police have turned routine enforcement into a predatory ritual.
Parliament and the IEBC have a rare opportunity to send a powerful message: voting is not secondary to paying taxes or renewing a licence. It is the supreme act of citizenship.
Matatus and commercial vehicles are stopped with clockwork regularity, not to ensure safety but to trigger the familiar dance of intimidation and extortion.
Robots cannot authentically replicate empathy, genuine esteem-building, or the reciprocal trust that emerges from shared vulnerability and nonverbal cues.
In the annals of Kenya’s constitutional history, one statistic should shame every MP into permanent silence.
An argument that Kenya’s Consolidated Fund lacks transparency and accountability due to blurred roles within the National Treasury.
Integrity is reduced to absence of a criminal conviction, while ethnic arithmetic, party loyalty, and coalition balancing decide outcomes.
A look at how the Njonjo-Nyerere rivalry shaped Kenya-Tanzania relations, influencing regional politics, integration, and enduring stereotypes.
If Parliament cannot find the political courage to legislate accountability for its own members, the courts must step in and compel them.
In agronomy, plants require 17 essential nutrients to thrive, 6 macronutrients in larger quantities and 11 micronutrients in trace amounts.
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