Archives for March 2016

By C Luanda Magere Dr David Ndii, as usual, wrote a brilliant article in his Saturday Nation column yesterday. He said what many people in this country have toyed with for years; secession! Reke tumanwo. The reaction from the Mountain quite surprised me. Arrest Ndii, they said. He is a threat to national security, he […]

By A Shiundu Take home from Ndii’s brilliant article. 1) Cruel marriages end up in divorce or death. Divorces, even the thought of divorce is messy. Unsettling. Death, well, death is cruel. That’s how I read the headline. Is that a lie? No! 2) We don’t have “a national narrative” (ha ha unless you want […]

A decade ago, Prof Bethuel Ogot, one of the country’s towering intellectuals, pronounced the “Kenya project” dead. Kenya has never been a more distant idea than it is now at the beginning of the 21st Century. Nationalism is dead, replaced by sub-nationalism. The tribe has eaten the nation. Few years ago, the country exploded into […]

By George Morara I have no issues if someone wants to celebrate the death and resurrection of our LORD Jesus Christ. What I find strange is the effortless pagan infiltration and its unquestionably acceptance and practice by “Christians”! The idea of eggs in Easter for example and “Christians” who hit the shops for them. It’s […]