Photo: USA Ambassador to Kenya H E Bob Godec By S N Guys, don’t get angry that Trump called African countries and Haiti shitholes. Don’t start with the patriotic nonsense of pride. Trump is telling us the truth. If 450 years later, we have Africans dying in the Mediterannean sea, ‘volunteering’ as slaves, risking it […]

By Bonface Nyangla I have just finished Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury” after my Facebook friend Mutungi Kioko sent me a soft copy yesterday morning. I read it,studiously, the wholeday while traveling from Homa Bay to Nairobi and had plenty of time at Suswa where Lempaa Soyinka’s kinsmen held us up between 10.30am and 4.30pm […]

By M X Muriuki The Liberian national soccer team is called the Lone Star. That may change for that star has found a perfect companion in its galaxy, with the election of arguably Africa’s greatest footballer since Eusebio, George Tawlon Manneh Oppong Weah, as the country’s president. They simply call him George Weah. He is […]

The events in Zimbabwe were best explained by this former Sec Gen of University of Zimbabwe Student Union: My true heroes. Those in the democratic movement who have been killed, maimed, tortured, having their homes destroyed, arrested for no apparent reason, those who were abducted to this day without trace, those who were vilified and […]