The allure of power and wealth can be a powerful motivator for most politicians as leadership positions offer access to significant resources like public funds, lucrative contracts and influential ...
A friend, Evelyne Ongogo, a budding poet who had an anthology of her poems titled, ‘Dichol and Other Poems’ and ‘Breaking the Burdens’ published by non-mainstream publishers a few years back, sent me ...
Wole Soyinka is a towering figure in the global sphere of literature, arts, and culture. So the emergence of a feature documentary, Ebrohimie Road, directed by Kola Tubosun, and narrated by Femi ...
For the past three weeks, the streets of Maputo, Mozambique’s capital, and other major cities have been consumed by protests against the ruling Frelimo party and the electoral fraud that, according to ...
When Lynes Manduwa miscarried, nurses in the gynaecology ward at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) ganged up and confronted the husband. “They confronted him for impregnating me [a woman with ...
I have been following the Adani Group’s electricity deal with the Kenya government involving the Kenya Electricity Transmission Company, Ketraco, and it reminds me of the story of a similar deal with ...
Two initial observations made at the beginning of the war in Ukraine were that first, this was actually not an aberration, but a return to the historically normal way of doing things among European ...
Kenyans are quite fond of saying that we have good policies but we fail at implementing them. I suspect this sentiment, along with “lack of political will”, comes from many years of political analysts ...
Vice President Kamala Harris’ recent visit to Ghana, Tanzania, and Zambia is a welcome step in the right direction in the US’s reengagement with Africa. However, the “more aid syndrome” is a ...