/blogs/-/445642/445642/-/10obfbo/-/index.html http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1888480/-/4ygycyz/-/index.html Even by Africa’s very high standards for the bizarre, the saga over Kenya’s deportation two weeks ago of controversial Nigerian businessman Anthony Chinedu takes the biscuit 2013-06-19T16:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1880870/-/4ymfsez/-/index.html The TV reality show, Big Brother Africa started its eighth season recently. This one is called “The Chase”. 2013-06-12T16:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1873364/-/5070o9z/-/index.html Kenya could soon be in for a shock. Why? Well, with a new government that is still taking shape, the country is understandably preoccupied with domestic affairs 2013-06-05T16:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1866352/-/50qgn0z/-/index.html After this column last week, I had a discussion with a worthy reader about how President Uhuru Kenyatta’s electoral victory could be “razor-thin” given that it was by over 800,000 votes 2013-05-29T16:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1859926/-/51arxlz/-/index.html I was last in Kisumu “City” nearly seven years ago. At that time, I was, how shall I put it, terribly underwhelmed? 2013-05-22T16:02:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Uhuru-can-give-all-school-children-laptops/-/445642/1766442/-/oio97vz/-/index.html Ever since President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy, William Ruto, declared during their campaigns that theirs was a “digital” ticket and promised that every Kenyan child entering primary school next academic year will get a laptop, opinion has been divided 2013-05-01T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/New-foreign-minister-is-a-woman/-/445642/1757266/-/bw9vlf/-/index.html Kenya’s newly elected President Uhuru Kenyatta on Tuesday named the first four ministers of his Cabinet. 2013-04-24T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Nairobi-Half-Life/-/445642/1656258/-/edcgcx/-/index.html More than a month after it hit the screens, I watched David “Tosh” Gitonga’s Nairobi Half Life, that much talked-about Kenyan film, which threatened to get an Oscar nomination. 2013-01-02T16:31:37Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1637426/-/65ptrcz/-/index.html The past few days in Kenya have seen a hurricane of political coalitions ahead of the elections in March next year. 2012-12-05T16:51:14Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1632172/-/65tdl9z/-/index.html As the Kenya election draws ever closer, I am struck by the number of reports and stories popping up everywhere predicting “even worse tribal violence than in 2008”. 2012-11-28T13:57:11Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Police-deaths-Imagine-if-this-happened-in-Uganda/-/445642/1626040/-/120heocz/-/index.html The ambush and killing of as many as 42 police officers in the Suguta Valley a few days ago in an ambush by “Turkana warriors” was quite shocking 2012-11-21T16:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Youssou-NDour-club-holds-secret-to-riches/-/445642/1620126/-/wmvhg6z/-/index.html What will African journalists and media owners eat in future? Will the young males afford to pay bride-price? Will the ones with families be able to pay school fees? 2012-11-14T15:59:21Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Americans-are-adept-at-selling-their-elections/-/445642/1614314/-/f5cyb9/-/index.html A tab on the New York Times website crowed: “Keep up with the election the whole world is watching”. 2012-11-07T15:53:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Why-an-Obama-loss-would-be-good-/-/445642/1608292/-/88eiuk/-/index.html In five days, Americans go the polls and we will know whether or not President Barack Obama has a job. 2012-10-31T13:58:23Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1594256/-/6l6gkyz/-/index.html There has been a lot of press the last two days suggesting that either through the design of a few devious politicians, or seemingly insurmountable problems that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission 2012-10-24T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1535696/-/6otwebz/-/index.html President Kibaki is stepping down in March next year after serving his two terms. 2012-10-17T14:54:01Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Kenyas-MPs-not-bad-boys-and-girls/-/445642/1530266/-/l25wwjz/-/index.html Once again, President Kibaki has ridden to the rescue. On Tuesday, he refused to assent to the Finance Bill in which MPs had given themselves a controversial sweetheart bonus totalling Sh2 billion 2012-10-10T15:59:10Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/A-great-history-of-our-polygamists/-/445642/1524092/-/c41wlbz/-/index.html Wednesday was the second anniversary of the death of Ancentus Ogwella Akuku, who was better known as Akuku Danger. 2012-10-03T15:37:38Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/It-might-pay-for-East-Africans-to-scratch-the-itch/-/445642/1518226/-/8ojqyoz/-/index.html On Monday this week, the Social Good Summit (SGS) came to Africa for the first time. The big one was held in Nairobi at the Godown Arts Centre theatre. 2012-09-26T14:41:54Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1511854/-/6q5q0bz/-/index.html I can’t help but feel sorry for Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. The good man has been having embarrassing woman problems. 2012-09-19T14:46:44Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1505486/-/6qoko2z/-/index.html The ethnic clashes in Tana Delta (a French news agency report called the violence “tribal vendetta”) have claimed more than 100 lives 2012-09-12T16:19:37Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Spouses-and-the-quest-for-political-power/-/445642/1497396/-/12loh2j/-/index.html US First Lady Michelle Obama made what is widely considered to be a very brilliant speech at Tuesday night’s Democratic National Convention. 2012-09-05T15:14:31Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Equity-Bank-chief-creating-capitalists/-/445642/1484886/-/88mho4/-/index.html On Tuesday, I was one of the guest speakers at the Third Annual Equity Group Foundation Education and Leadership Congress at the Kenyatta University campus. 2012-08-22T14:32:44Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/If-DRC-wants-peace-EA-must-eat-some-wealth-/-/445642/1451440/-/e1egecz/-/index.html The Democratic Republic of Congo is back in the news — for the wrong reason. War has erupted again in the eastern part of the country, with rebels of the M23 reportedly advancing towards the country’s main eastern city of Goma. 2012-07-11T16:06:40Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/The-story-of-restive-Kenya-natives/-/445642/1445136/-/l4oqlq/-/index.html I attended a conference in Nairobi on Tuesday where, amongst others, civil rights activist Okiya Omtatah spoke. 2012-07-04T18:05:28Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Roadblocks-help-sweeten-EA-project/-/445642/1437532/-/vc4ffx/-/index.html The weekly business magazine insert “Smart Company” quoted the World Bank as saying that non-tariff barriers (NTBs) remain the biggest obstacles 2012-06-27T16:20:35Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/The-politics-and-maths-of-secession/-/445642/1431546/-/ckfxigz/-/index.html In recent months, the Mombasa Republican Council has been in the news quite a bit. It is seeking secession — or is it independence? — for a chunk of coastal Kenya. 2012-06-20T14:03:42Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1426892/-/79ig5ez/-/index.html As was to be expected, politicians are already alleging there might have been foul play in the helicopter crash that killed two ministers 2012-06-13T16:14:56Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/How-Kenya-got-first-true-EA-political-stock-exchange-/-/445642/1422116/-/uniata/-/index.html It seems that now all the potential main presidential contenders in Kenya’s polls next year have found/bought/formed their “election vehicles”, as the media likes to call them. 2012-06-06T16:05:29Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/445642/1416908/-/7a4yh2z/-/index.html When what now certainly seems to have been a terrorist bomb went off on Nairobi’s Moi Avenue on Monday, I saw the future... of journalism 2012-05-30T15:13:14Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Somalia-rushes-to-make-up-for-lost-time-/-/445642/1400840/-/9tf7en/-/index.html Is the samosa the devil’s food? Is the stuff inside it kosher? Is its triangle shape Zionist? 2012-05-06T19:45:47Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Why-there-is-a-parties-bazaar-in-Kenya/-/445642/1389094/-/12w1e79/-/index.html The state of pre-election Kenyan politics has become a huge feast for cartoonists and comedians. 2012-04-18T15:00:19Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/What-Ghana-teaches-us-all-about--elections-/-/445642/1370814/-/5ufki6/-/index.html As the temperatures rise in Kenya over the date of the next election, I got round to watching An African Election, a documentary on the 2008 Ghana election that I got two weeks ago. 2012-03-21T14:49:33Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Museveni-never-liked-or-trusted-Raila/-/445642/1361246/-/o8slqvz/-/index.html Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Uganda’s President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni seem to have become quite hunky-dory with each other these days. 2012-03-07T15:01:36Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Museveni-never-liked-or-trusted-Raila/-/445642/1361258/-/o8slpxz/-/index.html Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Uganda’s President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni seem to have become quite hunky-dory with each other these days. 2012-03-07T15:01:36Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/In-death-men-like-Karume-reveal-what-kind-of-country-Kenya-is-/-/445642/1356542/-/7wh0fsz/-/index.html In the space of three days last week, two eminent Kenyan citizens died 2012-02-29T16:45:29Z 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/-/bejejg/-/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/-/ydbwut/-/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/-/9sb4fyz/-/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/-/11s9hjqz/-/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/-/brgmt3/-/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/-/kx1wm5z/-/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/-/10xmm7h/-/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/-/1577b5g/-/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/-/12yaqf7z/-/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/-/qo9kf1z/-/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/-/elw2dw/-/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/-/115j1jw/-/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/-/13fchqm/-/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/-/sdvdppz/-/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/-/ddpc70z/-/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/-/bf081gz/-/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/-/yi6eg0/-/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/-/cakqgx/-/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/-/n40ranz/-/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/-/11vpm8iz/-/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/-/iyksd9z/-/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/-/mf30boz/-/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/-/1jrnvz/-/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/-/150x5wsz/-/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/-/21bpntz/-/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/-/rdi1eiz/-/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