/blogs/-/445642/445642/-/10obfbo/-/index.html http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1303840/-/7tvcqrz/-/index.html There is a widely held view in East Africa that Tanzanians practise the most witchcraft. 2012-01-11T16:06:32Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Alek+Wek+and+Wanjikus+exotic+view+of+Uganda/-/445642/1300148/-/m1i9ja/-/index.html There was no mega earthquake, tsunami, war, massacre, or outbreak of rebellion last Christmas and this New Year. 2012-01-04T16:35:25Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Great+wedding+cons/-/445642/1296618/-/trekn2/-/index.html I have always been fascinated by what you might call the “asymmetrical con” 2011-12-28T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/If+Jesus+were+alive+today+hed+be+rich/-/445642/1293542/-/j9fgomz/-/index.html With the holiday season upon us, my mind is in what you might describe as an “idle state”. 2011-12-21T15:36:21Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1289480/-/88wog9z/-/index.html Today, the Kenya military campaign in Somalia will have been going on for exactly two months. 2011-12-14T17:34:19Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Our+problems+and+the+chiefs+who+cant+fix+them+/-/445642/1285728/-/lyn5msz/-/index.html East Africa is facing a serious power crisis. In Uganda, the patience snapped, and there have been several demonstrations. 2011-12-07T15:49:39Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/What+Somalia+war+tells+us+about+power+war+and+peace+/-/445642/1282118/-/14ygaj6/-/index.html Question: Why is the Kenya army (KDF) in Somalia? 2011-11-30T16:59:16Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Why+our+young+angry+protesters+must+be+making+Karl+Marx+smile/-/445642/1278378/-/12lry0q/-/index.html The young people of Egypt are very angry. After overthrowing the corrupt 2011-11-23T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1274500/-/89mod2z/-/index.html It is a dangerous time to be dark-skinned in Tripoli,” Human Rights Watch 2011-11-16T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1270366/-/89pi26z/-/index.html So we have seen the opinion polls about how the Kenya 2012 election might turn 2011-11-09T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1266316/-/8a7v5vz/-/index.html So I am in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, again. As it happens, two days 2011-11-02T16:00:35Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/+Art+of+making+war+the+Kenyan+way+/-/445642/1262172/-/yrcevk/-/index.html I have witnessed and covered my fair share of wars. Among the things I have learnt is that the way a people make war — and peace — often tells you a lot about their national character and history. 2011-10-26T15:30:45Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1258224/-/8as26hz/-/index.html When at the weekend the Kenya Army moved into Somalia in a campaign against the militant group al Shabaab, which is believed to have kidnapped aid workers from the Dadaab refugee camp, it changed the political story of the Great Lakes region. 2011-10-19T16:53:31Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1254370/-/8ausjez/-/index.html Kenya, we learnt this week, is ranked the top country in the world 2011-10-12T15:53:17Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1248728/-/8beh5ez/-/index.html As the confirmation hearings in the “Ocampo Six” case drew to a close 2011-10-05T17:30:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1240562/-/8bk36bz/-/index.html East African political parties met in Nairobi a few days ago and, predictably 2011-09-21T18:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1232230/-/8c5audz/-/index.html You all know the popular golden oldie, Me and Mrs Jones. You hear 2011-09-07T16:45:34Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1228560/-/8cmlemz/-/index.html Last week was the first anniversary of the new Kenya Constitution. If you asked 2011-08-31T17:00:27Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1224712/-/8cpc8rz/-/index.html Libya’s strongman Muammar Gaddafi is still threatening to fight 2011-08-24T15:37:42Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1220820/-/8cs3p6z/-/index.html I hardly paid any attention to Kenyan peace activist Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, 2011-08-17T15:18:55Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1216952/-/8daftaz/-/index.html I don’t know whether I was seeing things, or if the Community Shield clash between 2011-08-10T15:59:08Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/There+is+a+good+side+to+famine+in+Eastern+Africa+/-/445642/1213008/-/or3l7sz/-/index.html Large areas of Somalia, Ethiopia, South Sudan, and Kenya are being battered by one of the worst droughts in 60 years. 2011-08-03T15:04:10Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Why+Sweden+prostitution+laws+are+better+/-/445642/1208876/-/3o1okj/-/index.html I wouldn’t be surprised if there were some Kenyans that have photos of Naivasha MP John Mututho on their walls. 2011-07-27T15:32:01Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/How+boredom+is+killing+Africans/-/445642/1204878/-/ep5qkrz/-/index.html Last month, our own Ory Okolloh, who is Google’s policy manager for Africa, was speaking at The Guardian Activate summit on technology in London. 2011-07-20T16:05:04Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Kenya+vs+Uganda+and+the+politics+of+eating/-/445642/1200498/-/6lsb3rz/-/index.html Of late, I have been suffering what you might call “restless feet disease”, the need to get out of one’s comfort zone, and find new explanations for things. 2011-07-13T12:00:56Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Why+the+kitchen+in+schools+is+important+/-/445642/1195752/-/bkg0h2/-/index.html According to a report on the state of education in East Africa released last week, Kenyan pupils are tops in the region. 2011-07-06T15:14:49Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/How+milk+from+African+women+could+end+poverty+/-/445642/1191554/-/p9w1ifz/-/index.html As popular technology magazines come and go, there are few to beat WIRED for being unconventional. 2011-06-29T14:56:42Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1187468/-/8s1suvz/-/index.html Okay, this is probably going to bore you to death, but it is too important a subject for Africa (and the world, for that matter) to ignore. 2011-06-22T16:36:47Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1181650/-/8s5x94z/-/index.html If I had the power of God, I would have made every African president and politician read the May/June issue of Foreign Policy magazine (it’s available in the good news stands in Nairobi). 2011-06-15T16:49:53Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Why+Kenya+needs+many+more+mad+men+like+Ahmednasir+/-/445642/1177318/-/ayjn5s/-/index.html When Kenya’s Judicial Service Commission (JSC), under the new Constitution, televised its interviews for the next Chief Justice and deputy 2011-06-08T15:15:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/What+does+not+kill+Africa+will+make+it+free/-/445642/1173364/-/108rcpn/-/index.html On Tuesday, a group of 200 or so people protested at high food costs in Nairobi. They were part of what has been dubbed the “Unga Revolution”. 2011-06-01T16:32:07Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/What+happens+in+Aberdare+could+save+or+kill+humanity+/-/445642/1169256/-/ujlxo0z/-/index.html Somehow, a few years ago I ended up on the mailing list of Rhino Ark, the conservation group founded by Kenyans in 1980 2011-05-25T14:20:40Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Nomination+of+outsiders+could+herald+reform+in+Judiciary+/-/445642/1168150/-/81mixoz/-/index.html If Dr Willy Mutunga stood for office in war-ravaged Gulu in northern Uganda, he would perhaps win. 2011-05-23T16:05:37Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/They+wonder+if+Kenya+will+burn+or+not+after+2012/-/445642/1164970/-/md838t/-/index.html I am at a conference on social media and democracy/governance in West Sussex. There were two black faces at the conference 2011-05-18T12:13:03Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Here+is+a+case+for+why+riches+can+be+bad/-/445642/1160596/-/d5sxll/-/index.html The African Development Bank (AfDB) is becoming cool these days. It recently released a report 2011-05-11T15:44:14Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Osama+an+evil+genius+was+ahead+of+his+time/-/445642/1156244/-/w7eq54z/-/index.html So on Sunday, an elite US military team finally caught up with and killed “terrorist mastermind”, al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, in Abbottabad. 2011-05-04T13:38:58Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Gaddafi+and+other+presidents+fear+Africas+diseases+/-/445642/1151892/-/1smrka/-/index.html When leaked American diplomatic cables were first fed to the world a few months ago by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, one of the juicy bits was about Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi and his “voluptuous blonde” nurse. 2011-04-27T15:45:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1148172/-/8uhcgmz/-/index.html The masses of East Africa are hungry, angry, and protesting at the high food prices. 2011-04-20T15:26:38Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Rwanda+heroism+demons+can+be+traced+from+its+1000+hills+/-/445642/1139992/-/non7t5/-/index.html On Monday, as I stood outside the Genocide Memorial in Kigali, the workers were busy scrubbing its pavements and walkways. As they dry, they almost sparkle. 2011-04-06T13:52:52Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Libya+needs+a+protracted+bloody+war+/-/445642/1135784/-/85pb9jz/-/index.html Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s forces this week pounded rebels as they moved on the strongman’s home city of Sirte, halting their rapid advance and scattering them into the desert. 2011-03-30T15:38:24Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Athletics+politics+and+why+Kenya+should+let+others+win+/-/445642/1131726/-/15ct829/-/index.html It was both awe-inspiring and embarrassing watching the weekend’s IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Punta Umbria, Spain. 2011-03-23T15:57:08Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/After+ICC+experience+Kenya+is+on+the+way+to+political+heaven/-/445642/1127184/-/11bhlbjz/-/index.html The arguments over the so-called “Ocampo Six” for their suspected role in the 2008 post-election violence has become very hot. 2011-03-16T14:27:05Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Violence+in+Libya+is+Africas+future/-/445642/1122090/-/gxhnhb/-/index.html We need to take a new hard look at the “Arab Revolt” in North Africa, and what it says about what is coming in Africa. 2011-03-09T16:45:06Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1117856/-/8wci17z/-/index.html Gor Mahia officials say they are going to punish the club’s fans who were behind the violence that prematurely ended last Saturday’s Kenya Premier League match against Rangers FC. 2011-03-02T16:30:07Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1113458/-/8wfdfnz/-/index.html When President Kibaki withdrew his four nominations to constitutional offices on Tuesday, there was a mega collective national sigh of relief. 2011-02-23T14:06:41Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Egypt+Tunisia+rebels+gave+some+serious+love+/-/445642/1108852/-/7x5ovez/-/index.html Something exciting just happened in Tunisia and Egypt. As we also saw, in their millions the people revolted and ousted Zein al-Abidine Ben Ali, who had been dictator in Tunisia for 23 years, and more spectacularly Hosni Mubarak 2011-02-16T15:04:09Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Railways+roads+and+East+African+democracy+/-/445642/1104588/-/6t6qtj/-/index.html At the end of last year, senior editors at Nation Media Group were studying the Kenya population and political map and trying to understand how it might change with the new Constitution that established 47 counties as the new administrative units. 2011-02-09T16:42:16Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1100552/-/8x3yi7z/-/index.html We live in truly exciting times and the world, for sure, is changing. Proof of that is in North Africa where the people did something unthinkable in an Arab country. 2011-02-02T16:52:27Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/How+Kenya+story+became+Raila+and+Ruto+prisoner+/-/445642/1096406/-/qhnhhez/-/index.html If you hang out with foreigners quite a lot in Nairobi, you will hear them occasionally referring to Prime Minister Raila Odinga as the president. 2011-01-26T16:33:53Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Despite+tribal+drums+Kenya+is+changing+/-/445642/1092458/-/60fhf/-/index.html The squabbles over the six people fingered by the International Criminal Court in connection with the post-election violence, and within parties like ODM, have taken Kenya to a strange place. 2011-01-19T16:13:53Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Hail+to+Africa+election+cheats/-/445642/1088572/-/15i2b2z/-/index.html Prime Minister Raila Odinga, the African Union’s mediator on the Côte d’Ivoire crisis, is due to return to Abidjan to try and break the deadlock. 2011-01-12T15:29:49Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1084318/-/9c6nh1z/-/index.html Ever since Parliament passed a motion asking the government to quit the International Criminal Court 2011-01-05T15:21:43Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Why+we+should+expect+more+not+fewer+attacks+from+the+Shabaab+/-/445642/1076990/-/8wlhqm/-/index.html Kenyan and Ugandan security officers say Albert Olando Mulanda, the Tanzanian who is suspected to have set off an explosive that killed two people and injured 40, was likely linked to the extremist Somali group, Al Shabaab. 2010-12-22T13:40:33Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/How+todays+arch+villains+become+tomorrows+heroes/-/445642/1073022/-/t6nkfnz/-/index.html As International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo revealed the names of the six suspects he intends to pursue in connection with the post-election killings just over three years ago, I saw a different story. 2010-12-15T14:00:16Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Kenya+vs+Ocampo+The+big+global+politics+of+crime/-/445642/1068744/-/6cli8vz/-/index.html The hour that ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said he would file his case against six Kenyan post-election masterminds and perpetrators is nearing, and the noise levels have gone up big time. 2010-12-08T16:28:11Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1064038/-/9desk9z/-/index.html The biggest story in the world today, without doubt, is the leak of over 250,000 secret US State Department documents by the website WikiLeaks. 2010-12-01T16:13:48Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/African+woman+at+war+and+use+of+the+naked+truth+as+a+weapon+/-/445642/1059760/-/7m1gdk/-/index.html By now, we have read or heard about the dramatic, albeit bizarre, story of Zimbabwe’s ambassador to Australia, the worthy Ms Jacquline Zwambila. 2010-11-24T16:11:11Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1055468/-/9e0jwwz/-/index.html Last month, a record 6,000 fans of Uganda’s national football team, The Cranes, crossed into Kenya to watch their game against Harambee Stars. 2010-11-17T14:27:43Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1046176/-/9elgtlz/-/index.html Our good Tanzanian sisters and brothers voted in a general election on Sunday, October 31. Yesterday, three whole days later, the complete official results had not been released. 2010-11-03T14:40:33Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Why+Mrs+Grace+Mugabe+is+Africa+most+revolutionary+adulteress/-/445642/1041492/-/52jeumz/-/index.html So we are told that Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has been “left in turmoil” by his wife’s affair. 2010-10-27T14:53:16Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Kenya+does+not+need+to+enter+Gods+kingdom/-/445642/1037034/-/sbe78uz/-/index.html "There is nothing like a naturally occurring state, or country. Five things happen to states. They arise, expand, stagnate, collapse, and renew themselves." 2010-10-20T17:49:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Kenyas+Commonwealth+runners+win+gold+and+fail+to+take+crown/-/445642/1032424/-/ju28c4/-/index.html "To start a world marathon championship career, you need bare feet, a village path to run on, and to live where you won’t be murdered if you went running at 4am" 2010-10-13T14:49:19Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Please+bring+back+our+one+million+poor+denizens/-/445642/1027396/-/j9iubhz/-/index.html After more than a month since the release of Kenya’s population census figure, I finally met up with one of my favourite people in Nairobi. He is from Kibera, once touted as “Africa’s largest” slum. 2010-10-06T15:50:30Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/No+wedding+or+birthday+party+without+permit/-/445642/1020700/-/4w61tm/-/index.html In recent days, two eye-popping events came to pass in Uganda. They would also have been monumentally ludicrous, if it were not that they were so scary. 2010-09-29T15:51:32Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Two+great+Kenyan+stories+and+a+marvellous+movie+made+in+London+/-/445642/1016284/-/o58gmaz/-/index.html When the London Film Festival opens on October 13, it will offer a very Kenyan experience. One of the two African films selected for the festival is First Grader. 2010-09-22T15:52:28Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1012002/-/9givr0z/-/index.html "Our leaders portray themselves as democrats, so when they steal votes, they reveal themselves for what they are" 2010-09-15T16:45:57Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/The+stark+truth+about+Kenyans+frenzied+rush+for+love/-/445642/1006650/-/3kdjdrz/-/index.html By now, everyone knows the story, but it still sounds sweet no matter how many times it is repeated. 2010-09-08T19:23:12Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1001380/-/9h62f3z/-/index.html I am not a fan of Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, who is currently under indictment for war crimes, and I wish him bad luck. 2010-09-01T16:23:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Why+Makmende+is+about+the+lost+Kenyan+story+/-/445642/996856/-/24th3j/-/index.html David Lamb’s The Africans was published in 1983, which means most of the thinking, research and writing of the book took place between 1978 and 1982. 2010-08-25T17:13:22Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Why+Nairobi+Dar+are+sweeter+for+terrorists+than+Mogadishu+/-/445642/980454/-/14sjp44z/-/index.html It all began on July 11 World Cup finals night when terrorist bombings in Uganda’s capital Kampala killed nearly 80 people. 2010-08-18T13:59:28Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Why+it+is+tough+being+supermodel+Naomi+Campbell+/-/445642/975122/-/i4hfcdz/-/index.html QUESTION: If the woman who received “blood diamonds” from former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor was not a supermodel, leggy, and beautiful like Naomi Campbell, would it have been a big story? ANSWER: No. 2010-08-11T15:59:59Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Kenya+Somali+headache+is+country+blessing/-/445642/971032/-/r8gx64z/-/index.html The final verdict on the referendum on Kenya’s proposed constitution that was held on Wednesday will, as many people have noted, also be a judgment on the much-touted Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC). 2010-08-04T14:36:56Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Scared+shoppers++and+the+uprising+of+Kenya+Ray+Ban+class/-/445642/970886/-/hfc1w4/-/index.html Last evening I went shopping around 11pm at Nakumatt Ukay in Westlands, Nairobi (we night owls are eternally thankful to Nakumatt for starting 24-hour service, it saved our skins). 2010-08-04T11:28:04Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Erotic+secret+behind+the+ordinary+yawn/-/445642/966464/-/3vckcoz/-/index.html We have had a full plate of drama over the last two to three months. 2010-07-28T14:49:25Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Kibaki+has+sat+by+the+river+is+about+to+collect+his+prize/-/445642/961986/-/tonn64z/-/index.html Referendum day on the Kenya draft constitution is a few days away. There have been a lot of stories about the draft 2010-07-21T13:10:02Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Al+Shabaab+bombs+Kampala+it+must+now+expect+a+tireless+enemy/-/445642/957988/-/hmx8rv/-/index.html The Somali radical Islamic group, Al-Shabaab, has claimed responsibility for the deadly Sunday night bomb attacks in Kampala that killed at least 80 people. 2010-07-14T17:18:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/World+Cup+Africas+bleeding+hearts+and+painful+memories+/-/445642/953858/-/9ftmiqz/-/index.html I am glad I came to South Africa during the World Cup. It has helped me appreciate the meaning of the World Cup to the South and, at a wider level, Africa in ways I never would have. 2010-07-07T14:55:50Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Why+an+African+team+must+not+win+the+World+Cup/-/445642/949632/-/10qovng/-/index.html When South Africa bagged the privilege to host the 2010 World Cup, there was excitement all over Africa. 2010-06-30T13:08:12Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/The+best+thing+about+Kenya+Its+politicians+sleep+around/-/445642/945176/-/vnna0cz/-/index.html I’ve just returned from nosing around in Rwanda. When I asked a leading political figure there what he thought of Kenyan politics, he replied that “of all East African countries, I find Kenya’s politics most difficult to understand”. 2010-06-23T16:02:36Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/The+strange+case+of+retail+vs+wholesale+murder+in+Kenya/-/445642/940370/-/otxnev/-/index.html For about a week, Kenya's attention was transfixed with horror on the story of Philip Onyancha. 2010-06-16T15:19:45Z