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The play explores themes of corruption, complicity, understaffing, negligence, and other normalised malpractices in a story set in a public hospital.
The Ol Kalou Constituency by-election in Nyandarua County was marked by all kinds of humour, drama and reactions before, during and after the poll.
Former Senator Omar Hassan criticised the Kikuyu and personalised those attacks by targeting the Kenyatta family, but he faced no public reprimand despite language widely viewed as divisive.
A resurfaced video of Njoki Ndung’u saying she does not speak Kikuyu due to an English-only upbringing by her father has sparked debate online, even as she campaigns for a seat at the ICC.
The ceremony that was highly publicized online and which saw the controversial senator being honoured as a Nyakinyua while sipping Muratina, the Gikuyu traditional brew, has been labeled as a farce.
In Kikuyu traditions, a widow was not meant to remarry. This was meant to protect her late husband’s family identity as remarrying would mean losing the family blood line.
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