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Kenya is doing so badly, worse than under previous regimes, but in every institution, the middle class is propping up GoK.The sycophancy of this era is at a level that

This wasn't a joke. A history of women being sidelined in imperial institutions has made some women justify manipulation as "women's power." It's not power but powerlessness. Yano was saying

I hate to see our people being so humiliated like this. We have a barbaric government that thinks disease is fought by humiliating people. When do we actually stand up

It is only this year that I recognized how brutal and passive aggressive Kenya is. We hate those who excel, and we also hate those who do not win the

The argument an MP gave on Citizen TV for BBI is the same argument kumirans gave for voting for the ICC suspects in 2013: we're traumatized and tired of dying.

Tekayo is going full steam ahead in creating education segregation in Kenya. He has now appointed a bunch of professors to create the National Elite University of Kenya. I knew

The role of the government, this Anglo-American contraption which gives us grief, is to contain us so that a few royals who don't work survive on our work. Unless we

Let me say that after a good number of years, and being familiar with the work of David Graeber (RIP, I still can't believe it), I take this advice with

More on how the colonial-independence government enforcd tribalism using the education system.An article by Klopp and Janai Orina. Orina was a Moi University student persecuted by GoK in the late

At the height of Nyayoism, KANU hawk Kamotho said that pictures of Moi should be hung in our bedrooms. That's how reactionary politics had invaded our intimate lives.My generation was

For the longest time, the British were frustrated by the Kamba. Like the Giriama, the Kamba didn't enter the cash economy. They used cattle as a medium of exchange for

When I raised the flag about the sale of Makini and Riara to foreigners, people rudely told me it's simply business and shouldn't concern me.Truth is, Kenyans thought they would