By Robert Omulo Still fresh from taking the bronze medal in the “World Corruption Championship”, you have to admit that has never been tougher being Kenyan. Once upon a time, while abroad, we used to take offense when we were asked by other citizens whether we were Nigerians. Being the most populous country in the […]

By G Oguda I have read Reverend Mutava Musyimi’s response to Dr. David Ndii’s article on Saturday, and I have never read a more shallow politically-correct response than it. He writes, and I quote; “Just one question. Will there be any violence in the doubtless middle or upper class neighbourhood in which David Ndii lives? […]

Kibiria Wa Thuo:>>DAVID NDII. Thank you for saying what some of us have been saying for a long time. That the foundation of our nationhood is shaking. As a kikuyu, I have at times felt (and said it in this forum) that “our” elites such as Uhuru Kenyatta sometimes act like they are setting us […]

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 […]