Murkomen is a later day Meinertzhagen. Read on: nation.africa/kenya/weekly-r…

Tom Mboya: Remembering the man they shot on Government Road, by John Kamau, MBS open.substack.com/pub/johnkamau/…

We shot Pio Gama Pinto. We shot J.M. Kariuki. We shot Robert Ouko. We shot Baby Pendo. We shot Rex Masai We shot Boniface Kariuki. We shot the hopeful and the broken. We shot them in the dark, and sometimes in daylight. We shot them in alleys and in parliament grounds. We shot

Let us protect this asset from goons. nation.africa/kenya/weekly-r…

In this article, I argue that Raila Odinga risks ending up like Harry Thuku: nation.africa/kenya/weekly-r…

We keep the faith.

The millionaire who ended her life within Happy Valley nation.africa/kenya/weekly-r…

Once upon a time, Kenyans were asked to make a choice between Daniel arap Moi and others versus Prof Wangari Maathai. They gave Prof Maathai 4,000 votes countrywide. We have a problem.

In the land of Kaka Sungura....

I understand that the government has announced plans to relocate the Kenya National Archives — a move I have long called for. This decision could not be more timely. The current premises, though historically significant, are no longer adequate for the demands of a modern archival

After Harambee Stars’ exit from CHAN, watch Kenyan politicians drive people to tribal default settings. Many cannot function outside the tribal rails.

In my Sunday Nation article today on Kenya@105, I have shown how we ended up with an imposed identity, a mispelled word, and a country that was a cartographer’s work. Our duty is to make lemonade out of the lemon but this cannot be done if leadership is left to tribalists. Buy a

Among the old veterans of Nairobi, the area now occupied by the Kenya National Archives is still remembered as Commercial. This name lingers from an earlier era, when the imposing structure housed the headquarters of the Kenya Commercial Bank. In those days, it was also a vital

What became of Nigeria in athletics?

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I have written a lengthy piece on Raila Odinga in today’s Daily Nation. The feedback is impressive. This was my conclusion for those who want to go and read it.

Is there a media campaign on the voter registration or we are busy disenfranchising the youth through silence?

Once upon a time, I told my mother that I wanted to be a matatu tout. I must have been six or seven—too young to understand what work really was, yet old enough to admire the loud confidence of those men hanging from the sides of village face-me junks, calling out destinations