By Silas Nyanchwani In the autumn of 2011, I was part of a dozen students from the University of Nairobi’s Literature department that were taken to Germany on a sponsored tour by DAAD(German Academic Exchange Service). It was brief tour, but the most astonishing thing was that schedule that was sent to us a month […]

ALERT : Governor Hassan Ali Joho has been blocked from attending the SGR launch at miritini. He wants to address the media at the scene. Kindly avail yourselves

A damning email sent to this writer demonstrates the incomprehensible demands that young female Kenyans who applied for in-service crew jobs with the SGR were put through, with both Kenyan officials and their Chinese counterparts openly demanding sexual favours to increase chances of one landing a job with the SGR. “Typically, you’d be invited for […]