/blogs/-/446718/446718/-/r0scw5z/-/index.html http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Children-of-the-Mau-Mau-seek-the-truth/-/446718/1847626/-/2fvfcqz/-/index.html This Mau Mau fight for compensation from the British brings to mind stories from my childhood and raises interesting questions about who is going to be paid and for what 2013-05-09T17:18:31Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/America-gets-ever-richer/-/446718/1839818/-/14dkew2z/-/index.html The state of European economies reminds me of an old reggae tune, onda pressure 2013-05-02T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Kenya-must-recast-relations-with-donors/-/446718/1758300/-/128rqa7z/-/index.html I can see a hole in the government being announced, as we used to say in the military, by our young friends now resident in that big colonial mansion near the park 2013-04-25T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1694444/-/c8u1v6/-/index.html How I wish that Prime Minister Raila Odinga was deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta’s political valentine. 2013-02-14T17:26:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1668302/-/c736ku/-/index.html The political party nominations are a complete, utter fiasco, and they tell us a great deal about Kenya’s political culture 2013-01-17T16:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1662684/-/c6y38c/-/index.html Congratulations to the 10th Parliament for its singular commitment to pork, and the welfare of MPs. Their derring-do in awarding themselves more money in the middle of the night shows the lengths to which they will go for a quick, free buck 2013-01-10T16:10:56Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Why-Kenyans-are-dying-on-the-roads/-/446718/1652618/-/bfw8ih/-/index.html I have some good news and I have some bad news 2012-12-27T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1643372/-/c5qmdk/-/index.html There are some things which go down a riot in the village but do not travel very well in town. And there some things which are a blast in the city — Gangnam Style, 50 Shades of Grey 2012-12-13T16:51:59Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1638268/-/c58j9x/-/index.html So, now that our politicians have provided ample evidence that they have the morals of alley cats, has the honest deal-making mixed with backstabbing 2012-12-06T16:28:54Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1633008/-/c550xu/-/index.html The contest in 2013 has more or less taken shape: Raila Odinga of the Orange Democratic Party, Uhuru Kenyatta of The National Alliance-United Republican Party alliance, Musalia Mudavadi of the United Democratic Front grouping 2012-11-29T16:16:58Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/I-wonder-how-we-will-conduct-poll-debates-/-/446718/1626932/-/14x0p4q/-/index.html Newspapers, at least the good ones, are very careful how they deal with this whole question of tribe. 2012-11-22T15:45:13Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Punish-saboteurs-who-vandalise-infrastructure/-/446718/1621092/-/5q8d1wz/-/index.html My friend, who shall for now remain unnamed, once told me the story of an organised African country which was having problems with boda bodas in its capital. 2012-11-15T16:33:48Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Why-this-election-must-not-be-business-as-usual-/-/446718/1620496/-/avjokk/-/index.html The election, in just over three months, can’t and will not be business as usual. The business of short-changing Kenyans by conducting fraudulent campaigns – where cheap victory is bought through appeals to tribalism 2012-11-14T17:43:54Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Americans-have-got-the-right-man-/-/446718/1615298/-/prnsiyz/-/index.html Mr Barack Obama, you nearly gave us a heart attack in the middle of the night, you bad man. 2012-11-08T16:28:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Being-a-black-in-this-world-is-hard-enough/-/446718/1609290/-/3b3t29/-/index.html Being black in this world and in this age, is not easy. It is hard. We are the object of racial prejudice and hatred from a great many people from every other race on earth. 2012-11-01T16:30:23Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1536638/-/bl4hy1/-/index.html I was so horrified to learn of the growing mess in the procurement of voter registration equipment by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) that I threw away the column I had written in favour of fulminating over that very topic 2012-10-18T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1532912/-/bl1ryr/-/index.html I lived briefly in Kijipwa in the late 1980s and fell in love with Kilifi, its people, the heat, the sea breeze, the doing nothing but sitting around in a vest lifestyle 2012-10-11T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1532914/-/bl1ryt/-/index.html African buffoons don’t learn. To you and me, if you put your hand in the fire and feel pain, chances are that you wouldn’t continue doing it in the hope of feeling pleasure 2012-09-27T16:31:33Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1532916/-/bl1ryv/-/index.html By the time you read this, our troops will most probably have entered Kismayu, the beautiful but unfriendly nest of Al-Shabaab vipers 2012-09-20T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Our-goose-is-cooked-/-/446718/1506590/-/i453hi/-/index.html If you ask anyone whether we are going to have violence at the next election, the answer will almost certainly be: Absolutely not. 2012-09-13T16:19:13Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1532918/-/bl1ryx/-/index.html The killing of Aboud Rogo, the radical preacher and terror suspect, and the subsequent outpouring of hatred is very worrying 2012-08-30T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1532920/-/bl1s0l/-/index.html Nobody should be shocked that MPs have passed an integrity law with such loopholes that the biggest graft shark would swim through without the least inconvenience 2012-08-23T17:04:30Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1475590/-/b4h7u0/-/index.html Mr Ezekiel Kemboi is a great man. He is a fellow you can count on to deliver the goods. He also knows his mind and is not afraid to think for himself. 2012-08-09T16:10:13Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1469638/-/b3xguq/-/index.html This is a horrible thing to say, so I will say it: I expected some level of corruption in the procurement of election materials. 2012-08-02T16:18:53Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1464036/-/b3tuk3/-/index.html Oh, God, some dizzy NGO judge has gone and done it, was my initial, knee-jerk reaction to the High Court ruling lifting the ban on the Mombasa Republican Council. 2012-07-26T16:38:51Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1452342/-/b370ek/-/index.html In an angry email message, Miguna Miguna once called me “unprofessional” and implied that I was incompetent. 2012-07-12T16:23:01Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-This-is-nothing-but-Anglo-Leasing-revisited-/-/446718/1403454/-/aoahqm/-/index.html The handling of the National Health Insurance Fund scandal is a demonstration of just how dysfunctional and corrupt the coalition government has become. 2012-05-10T16:28:41Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/All-aspirants-should-be-given-a-chance/-/446718/1398888/-/mi8587z/-/index.html The political classes have their knickers in a twist over Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi and his temerity to stand up and challenge his erstwhile benefactor, boss and friend, Prime Minister Raila Odinga. 2012-05-03T15:14:59Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-Intrigues-of-Sololo-and-the-NSSF--/-/446718/1389902/-/1i635d/-/index.html A newspaper is like an old man’s house. There are little-visited nooks and crannies full of interesting and valuable things. 2012-04-19T16:08:50Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1385440/-/al103o/-/index.html Prime Minister Raila Odinga is in danger of losing his voice just when he needs it most. 2012-04-12T16:43:37Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1380750/-/akwkv3/-/index.html One of my friends used to tell me that the greatest reformer in the public service was Dr Richard Leakey. 2012-04-05T16:05:26Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1376450/-/akf5jf/-/index.html I think you will need a guide on how to behave properly as citizens of an oil-rich country. 2012-03-29T17:58:21Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Mt-Kenya-is-the-source-of-life-itself-/-/446718/1371552/-/qrfb54z/-/index.html Mt Kenya, which is on fire, is not just the home and shrine of (to their tribal rivals) the loathed Mt Kenya Mafia. 2012-03-22T15:49:50Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1366996/-/ajspo4/-/index.html I met a gentleman who has returned after working abroad for a while and he was puzzled. 2012-03-15T14:12:55Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/It-is-a-good-thing-to-care-for-the-poor/-/446718/1361984/-/o6w7vfz/-/index.html I do not wish to sound heartless. Neither is it my intention today to get into a fight with President Mwai Kibaki or his dear partner-in-power, Prime Minister Raila Odinga. 2012-03-08T16:05:03Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Modern-highways-are-not-enough/-/446718/1357118/-/yej73i/-/index.html The Thika superhighway and the new by-passes in Nairobi will make traffic jams worse and increase road deaths. 2012-03-01T14:42:03Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/To-truly-reform-the-Judiciary-we-need-to-go-all-the-way/-/446718/1333580/-/aw0yrxz/-/index.html Why is the vetting of judges and magistrates being done in secret? Is it to spare the wrongdoers the blushes? 2012-02-23T16:05:16Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Lynch-mob-proposals-not-the-answer-/-/446718/1329114/-/190rg0/-/index.html Members of Parliament have insinuated themselves at the Central Bank and after conducting hearings, arrived at the rather unsurprising conclusion 2012-02-16T16:49:13Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/ODM-should-not-allow-intolerance-to-ruin-its-great-moment/-/446718/1323396/-/1470cbx/-/index.html The vilification of Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi by a section of Orange Democratic Party members for daring to seek the party’s presidential nomination is an arrogant and intolerable display of chutzpah. 2012-02-09T13:09:48Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1304632/-/ag3163/-/index.html It is early morning, on the third day after voting. The country is on the verge of mass panic. 2012-01-12T16:15:53Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1297198/-/a2l4nv/-/index.html The first existential test for New Kenya will come, not from the Rift Valley and its addiction to bloodletting, but from the Coast and its fondness for secession. 2011-12-29T15:29:56Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1290064/-/a2g8kg/-/index.html I am willing to stake my reputation on this: there isn’t going to be a 2011-12-15T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1286252/-/a1xw55/-/index.html Don’t be alarmed if you are a little confused about the military situation in Somalia. You are not alone. 2011-12-08T16:33:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1282588/-/a1v7an/-/index.html It most probably isn’t fate (or bad luck, or karma or ancestral spirits) causing trouble in your life. In many cases, fate has a name, a grudge and a plan, and is reorganising your life in the most fascinating and destructive of ways. 2011-12-01T15:58:22Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/What-matters-is-whether-the-polls-will-be-free-/-/446718/1278646/-/f2vk56/-/index.html Kenya is full of madmen. The talent for sitting back, reflecting and taking the best decision is totally absent. 2011-11-24T15:09:30Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Trucks-on-our-highways-being-driven-by-lunatics/-/446718/1274828/-/cmh3htz/-/index.html The beautiful Mombasa highway the Narc government built for us is unravelling. 2011-11-17T13:30:26Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/How-America-Cold-War-blunders-created-monster/-/446718/1270796/-/9ww7saz/-/index.html I have spent valuable days poring obsessively over reams upon reams of prints from the internet on Al-Qaeda in East Africa. In my mind is beginning to emerge the appalling extent of the influence of Cold War mistakes on the security and future of the Horn of Africa. 2011-11-10T12:55:59Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1266720/-/a0px73/-/index.html The reaction of the international media to Kenya’s incursion into Somalia has left me, as a media man, a bit baffled. 2011-11-03T12:57:38Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/So-Al-Shabaab-is-suing-for-peace/-/446718/1262910/-/17nr1p/-/index.html Dear Mr Wetangula, We have a problem. Your quick brain, and even quicker tongue, will be required to deal with these jokers in Somalia. 2011-10-27T17:21:04Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1258834/-/a05sqk/-/index.html Armies don’t go to war, countries do. So Kenya is at war with al Shabaab. I tend to be a little hot-headed and a bit of a war-monger, I fear. 2011-10-20T15:25:09Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/We-must-stop-playing-party-politics-/-/446718/1254956/-/4dghu3z/-/index.html We are all facing financial ruin because the shilling has gone West (to borrow an expression). 2011-10-13T16:23:10Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1251294/-/a00sxx/-/index.html Somali pirates are killing Kenya, one tourist at a time. Hotels have closed 2011-10-06T16:58:06Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/It-is-time-to-sue-for-peace-and-to-unite-/-/446718/1245046/-/j1oktez/-/index.html After the election violence of 2007/8, it is only right and fair that justice be sought, locally and internationally 2011-09-29T14:19:52Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1241230/-/9ye9w7/-/index.html Elections are best rigged well before the ballots are cast. In Kenya, electoral 2011-09-22T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Negligent-failed-leadership-allowed-Sinai-tragedy-/-/446718/1236952/-/13qtdk0/-/index.html The Sinai fire tragedy was bad. It was so bad that even seasoned Nation journalists, many of whom see death nearly every day, required trauma therapy. 2011-09-15T15:49:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Lets-pay-our-teachers-well/-/446718/1232780/-/13fox21z/-/index.html When I was a university student (Mr Wilson Sossion, the fire-breathing Knut chairman was my yearmate and neighbour in the halls of residence) 2011-09-08T17:40:19Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1229074/-/9xbp7o/-/index.html Sometimes small things happen which change the course of history 2011-09-01T15:23:40Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1225426/-/9x90xg/-/index.html There will be probably never be a better time to retell the story of Caesar 2011-08-25T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1217380/-/9wnu26/-/index.html After liberation in 1994, there grew in South Africa a breed of eaters, known as 2011-08-11T15:37:12Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Crusade-bombing-has-changed-Kenya-forever/-/446718/938880/-/uliqapz/-/index.html You will know a bad one when the tip comes in. Sunday’s grenade attack on a crusade at Uhuru Park doesn’t come any worse. 2010-06-14T17:50:56Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/838410/-/ou2mkqz/-/index.html The Akiwumi tribunal has done us all proud. It’s sagacity and probing intellect is a great credit to this country. 2010-01-08T06:37:59Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/663762/-/pvgvhaz/-/index.html It is 19 years since the clamour for constitutional change gained widespread support. 2009-09-26T15:30:28Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/660632/-/pvj0awz/-/index.html I think henceforth, whenever President Kibaki wishes to make an appointment, he should ask his secretary to call me 2009-09-19T18:26:46Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/657002/-/pw0sqfz/-/index.html No one, least of all the politicians, has had anything good to say about former police commissioner Major-General Hussein Ali 2009-09-12T16:49:08Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/640006/-/pwr7utz/-/index.html A section of Members of Parliament think it is a grand idea for us to have a special tribunal, after all. 2009-08-15T11:19:30Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/636568/-/px9grgz/-/index.html August 7, 1998, was, for me, a time of trauma beyond the terror attack. That week someone had come to my house 2009-08-08T13:38:43Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/633292/-/pxbm0uz/-/index.html I am amused by the outrage expressed by MPs over the Cabinet decision to try election violence suspects in the High Court. Why are MPs pissed off? They got what they wanted, didn’t they? 2009-08-01T12:23:36Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/629714/-/pxsv9vz/-/index.html No empire is ever conquered by an outside power without first destroying itself from within 2009-07-25T11:31:11Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/622710/-/pxxqi7z/-/index.html The unthinkable was always going to happen, I just didn’t expect it to be this soon: I am beginning to tire of Barack Obama. 2009-07-11T19:30:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/619116/-/pyfjuvz/-/index.html Fox News, the American TV channel which during the US presidential elections distinguished itself with its anti-Obama slant, caught my attention yesterday. 2009-07-04T15:12:23Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/616150/-/pyhmq1z/-/index.html I confess I have been writing saucy war headlines. We journalists and our soulmates in certain sections of society, mainly MPs 2009-06-27T16:29:53Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/613222/-/pyjoyoz/-/index.html I have no illusions: the world is a twisted unkind place and human beings, while capable of the most touching kindness 2009-06-20T14:58:10Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/610344/-/pylr3wz/-/index.html If I were on talking terms with Finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta, here is what I’d say to him 2009-06-13T13:20:50Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/608752/-/q02na7z/-/index.html There is no age-set without its hero.” The proverb sat between the two men like a grenade. 2009-06-06T14:20:15Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/608754/-/q02na5z/-/index.html I has supported the mochion,” the fat man panted as he slipped into the seat opposite the other fat man, whom we shall call Fat Boy for ease of identification. “We have win.” 2009-05-30T16:06:59Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/608760/-/q02n9dz/-/index.html We have been hoping that the Kenya coalition will last a while, not because we like the feuding clowns who currently populate our politics, but because we are grateful it stopped the war, and there is an important reform job to be done. The most important part of that job, is of course, to take the law to every region and class. 2009-04-18T15:57:52Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/608762/-/q02n9bz/-/index.html South Africa is about to elect its first African president. A 66 year-old man who learnt to read and write in prison, was indicted for corruption, a populist politician with a strong tribal appeal, a revolutionary of Umkhonto we Sizwe for which he was intelligence chief, Jacob Zuma is the next ruler of South Africa. Mr Zuma is what my grandfather would have a described as a man with a strong thigh, five wives and/or fiancés and counting with 18 children out of his loins. 2009-04-11T15:16:54Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/608764/-/q02n99z/-/index.html Kenyans today stand to lose half the land in their country: All that region to the west of the Rift Valley is going to suffer a disaster of big proportions; it’s drying up, the farms are producing less, rainfall is decreasing, it’s becoming hotter, the lakes are vanishing. 2009-04-04T15:54:06Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/608766/-/q02n97z/-/index.html I could not hold back a guffaw when I read on Saturday that Prime Minister Raila Odinga and President Kibaki were having second thoughts about the much talked- about Cabinet reshuffle because they have been advised it could do irreparable political damage. 2009-03-28T16:51:52Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/608768/-/q02n95z/-/index.html A politician was banned from the United States by its government earlier in the week, and there was probably joy across the land. 2009-03-21T15:52:56Z