/blogs/-/634/634/-/8cwo0e/-/index.html http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Kenya+economic+model+needs+rethink/-/634/1406326/-/11qs3ho/-/index.html As the leading economy in the region, Kenya is expected to be first in just about every matter. Its companies operate across the region and in some cases globally. 2012-05-15T13:58:06Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/1388434/-/4gj5h9/-/index.html For the record, I respect the sacrifices made by the millions as part of revolutions across the globe over the centuries. 2012-04-17T16:30:29Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/1383502/-/4gfol5/-/index.html Today, as I sat with some of my editorial colleagues for a meeting, the discussion shifted from website functionality to the ubiquitous necktie. 2012-04-10T07:13:11Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Let+us+mourn+Michuki+with+the+truth/-/634/1334156/-/yydf6fz/-/index.html John Michuki was a tough man on a power trip who had no qualms ordering a heavy clampdown of the Mungiki. 2012-02-24T09:43:27Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/1259900/-/3uml89/-/index.html In the wee hours of Mashujaa Day, Leah Kyalo, 51, became Nation Media Group’s oldest employee to scale Africa’s tallest mountain. 2011-10-22T15:59:02Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/51+year+old+defies+age+to+tackle+Mt+Kilimanjaro+/-/634/1259392/-/lep59qz/-/index.html In the wee hours of Mashujaa Day, Ms Leah Chalo, 51, became Nation Media Group’s oldest employee to scale Africa’s tallest mountain. 2011-10-21T16:08:49Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Kenya+at+war++but+Kibaki+goes+MIA/-/634/1257964/-/vctaahz/-/index.html A recurring criticism of President Kibaki has been that he sits on the fence too much; that he is a leader that rarely sticks his neck out or takes a robust position on any issue in the public sphere. 2011-10-19T08:52:51Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/NMG+hikers+eye+final+stretch+/-/634/1257378/-/3yc87ez/-/index.html The excursion by 42 Nation Media Group employees to scale Mt Kilimanjaro entered the final and hardest stretch Tuesday morning. 2011-10-18T07:04:05Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Readers+remember+Maathai+quotes/-/634/1243120/-/2jxl5xz/-/index.html Nobel laureate and renowned environmentalist Wangari Maathai died in Nairobi on Sunday, September 25, 2011. 2011-09-26T04:47:12Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/1240256/-/3ttn3s/-/index.html The choice of The Hague as the home of the International Criminal Court was an inspired one. The place is grey, soulless, occasionally rainy and unrelentingly dull. 2011-09-21T11:41:29Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/1229630/-/3srw9l/-/index.html In April when the Ocampo Six made their initial appearance before the ICC, they were escorted by 40 MPs, but not this time round. 2011-09-03T09:52:55Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/1216836/-/3s4byu/-/index.html The vandalism, looting and arson that has gripped London and spread to other cities has taken the British public by surprise. 2011-08-10T14:51:15Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/1213042/-/3s22rg/-/index.html The World Food Programme reckons that Kenya is not experiencing famine. 2011-08-03T15:28:45Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/1212902/-/3s1keu/-/index.html Admittedly, dictators belong to the very cruel of the human species. 2011-08-03T13:28:57Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/MPs+should+be+courteous/-/634/1196746/-/28hmi3z/-/index.html I am tired of lies and time wasting that MPs are so accustomed to. On Thursday at a press conference 2011-07-08T06:35:39Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/1173066/-/3cnkgh/-/index.html Barcelona's humiliation of Manchester United at Wembley during the Champions League final was just the revenge I had been waiting for. 2011-06-01T13:32:26Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/1131234/-/3a62q3/-/index.html Call it by any other name, but Tuesday’s ceremony at Parliament had all the elements of a State Opening as inherited from the English Parliament. 2011-03-23T06:21:55Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/1127850/-/39nti7/-/index.html Musa Juma's music once made former Nation business journalist WASHINGTON AKUMU to put aside his financial menu to direct his pen to music. Here is a profile he published in February 2004 on the fallen singer. 2011-03-17T10:39:08Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Goodbye+my+Musa+Juma/-/634/1127448/-/itj4wcz/-/index.html ESTHER MACHARIA - Musa Juma has joined Omondi Tony and the Limpopo Band is now in in heaven. 2011-03-16T15:33:37Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/1108092/-/38g9uo/-/index.html It is 8.30am and everyone is sat at their desks ready for a new day, with no single idea that the office would be painted red in a few hours. 2011-02-15T13:57:46Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/1103610/-/38cwrf/-/index.html Parliament's Justice and Legal Affairs Committee has done well in regard to upholding the constitutional right of public participation.  2011-02-08T10:56:10Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/1089990/-/2tbqno/-/index.html A lot has changed in the village lifestyle since I last visited Kajulu in Kisumu. 2011-01-15T08:42:47Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/1088466/-/2taxcq/-/index.html The government decision to introduce a quota system on admissions to national schools finally proves what most of us have been pointing out as wrong with KCPE (Not 8-4-4, but KCPE). 2011-01-12T14:18:58Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/1088412/-/2tax87/-/index.html There seems to be a real problem when it comes to Public Relations –forget the text-book banner, magazine, guided-tour stuff, I mean the actual touch with the wananchi, the taxpayers and the voters. 2011-01-12T13:45:52Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Prince+William+as+the+star+in+White+Mischief/-/634/1057036/-/681q7az/-/index.html For a country that had its international image battered by the 2008 post-election violence, a piece of the British royal nuptials and the generous publicity that came with it was just what the doctor ordered. 2010-11-20T09:40:02Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Prince+William+as+the+star+in+White+Mischief/-/634/1066252/-/67fu0kz/-/index.html Reports that WikiLeaks could release 1,821 US diplomatic cables on Kenya have predictably got our leaders in a foul mood considering the unflattering manner in which the secret memos have depicted their counterparts elsewhere. 2010-11-20T09:40:02Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Why+Kenyans+should+salute+Tarus+/-/634/1052830/-/hub93v/-/index.html A man fighting for his political life goes to the International Criminal Court headquarters at The Hague where he admits to answering “many questions” and flies back to a familiarly choreographed reception. 2010-11-13T12:10:32Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/1048020/-/2qtoix/-/index.html When I recently asked Philip Mwaniki, the Nation’s entertainment critic, for a quick review of the Club Galileo in Nairobi’s Westlands area, this is what he had to say: “It is upscale, but not high-end. You could say it’s patronised by upwardly mobile young professionals with about Sh5,000 to spare after paying their monthly house rent.” 2010-11-06T09:32:15Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/1043262/-/2qq9ll/-/index.html A picture, as they say, is worth a thousand words. But the ones I saw last week of tough politicians lose their nerves in court, cut a lonely figure on the front benches of Parliament or nearly break down in the reclining chair of a ministerial office only told me one thing: that Kenya is indeed changing. 2010-10-30T09:42:40Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/There+is+order+to+Kibaki+chaos+after+all/-/634/1038600/-/47qqgpz/-/index.html For a country where politics is ever so fluid, I am often hesitant to view the outcome of political contests in Kenya through the narrow lens of winners and losers. 2010-10-23T09:21:27Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/1033896/-/2q4uhs/-/index.html Michela Wrong, the author of It’s Our Turn to Eat, just fell short of calling Kenyan editors a bunch of cowards and hypocrites for being reluctant to mention a person’s tribe in media reports during the 2008 post-election violence. 2010-10-16T08:59:18Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/1033660/-/2q4su2/-/index.html The credibility of Parliament suffered on Thursday when deputy Speaker Farah Maalim made a a contentious, even, illogical ruling. 2010-10-15T13:02:41Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/1029410/-/2pme6f/-/index.html October 10 would have been a public holiday if Kenyans had not decided in the August 4 referendum to erase 24 years of Moi’s misrule from their collective memory. 2010-10-09T14:32:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/The+inconvenient+truth+about+Vision+2030/-/634/1028596/-/2tgj6a/-/index.html On September 22, 2008, I argued in an opinion article in the Sunday Nation that Kenya’s development blueprint – popular as Vision 2030 – could turn out to be wishful thinking unless Kenyans were made to see it clearly. 2010-10-08T07:42:03Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/1024554/-/2pixgo/-/index.html If I were on the judges’ panel for last week’s Kalasha Awards, I would have handed the top prize to the comedians on Citizen TV’s puppet show, XYZ. 2010-10-02T06:44:16Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/1017838/-/2oyjtl/-/index.html You can rant all you want at the people of Juja, Makadara and Starehe for voting the way they did in last week’s by-elections. 2010-09-25T08:08:28Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/OTIENO++Gor+Mahia+scores+big+victory+for+national+cohesion/-/634/1013274/-/npslkm/-/index.html Cheering on Gor Mahia has to be the latest lifestyle in Nairobi. 2010-09-18T09:27:22Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/OTIENO++Break+silence+over+women+killers+of+Kisii/-/634/1008610/-/p8tfifz/-/index.html Last month, reports that European explorer Henry Morton Stanley’s village mates in Wales were planning to immortalise him with a bronze statue triggered a high-minded exchange on the Daily Nation’s commentary pages. 2010-09-11T08:26:54Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/After+the+census++being+a+Luo+is+not+easy/-/634/1003558/-/o9bpxu/-/index.html OTIENO OTIENO | It has not been easy being a Luo this past week. 2010-09-04T10:06:28Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/BLOG++Who+pays+for+promulgation+parties/-/634/1000942/-/olurja/-/index.html JOHN NGIRACHU | So, who has been paying for the ostentatious parties held to celebrate the August 27 promulgation of the new Constitution? 2010-09-01T06:44:57Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Smart+Karua+is+the+woman+after+my+own+heart/-/634/998586/-/qbs0s8z/-/index.html Martha Karua, the Iron Lady of Kenyan politics, has found new love: tweeting. 2010-08-28T10:21:08Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/997428/-/78nhqf/-/index.html How will life in Kenya change after the new Constitution comes into force on August 27? Please explain your position. 2010-08-26T14:55:06Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/994252/-/78ldah/-/index.html BLOG - After the gripping referendum drama, the outbreak of new mobile phone price wars has got Kenyans talking in the past four days. 2010-08-21T13:40:29Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/980148/-/77w1bb/-/index.html OTIENO OTIENO - As president, Daniel arap Moi had a Medusa touch – everything he laid his hand on turned into stone. 2010-08-18T07:29:47Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Kibaki+vs+Moi+Mchongaono+for+titans/-/634/966424/-/fkm016/-/index.html OTIENO OTIENO - Kibaki this, Moi that....who will win this contest between Kenya's serving and former presidents? 2010-07-28T14:23:25Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/956570/-/766nqn/-/index.html Clouded in the unreasonable fear South Africans have to makwerekweres (foreign migrant workers) are three stark reminders within Johannesburg of the country´s shameful historical episodes; the Constitution Hill, the Hector Pieterson Museum and the Apartheid Museum 2010-07-13T18:00:09Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Mwakwere+has+the+tyranny+of+villagers+to+thank/-/634/957290/-/v4udunz/-/index.html OTIENO OTIENO - Polite warning: if you hold that democracy is the best system of government ever invented, you may find this offensive. 2010-07-13T16:15:06Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Mwakwere+has+the+tyranny+of+villagers+to+thank/-/634/957240/-/v4ue03z/-/index.html Polite warning: If you are one of those people who still hold that democracy is the best system of government ever invented, you’ll probably find this blog a little offensive. 2010-07-13T15:34:32Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/BLOG++Octopus+Paul+is+simply+witchcraft+from+the+West/-/634/954974/-/ogpantz/-/index.html In the run-up to the climax of the first soccer World Cup in Africa, the international media attention has been unfortunately focused elsewhere. 2010-07-09T14:15:26Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/BLOG+SAMANTHA+SPOONER+My+quarrels+with+my+Africa/-/634/929872/-/159hcxbz/-/index.html SAMANTHA SPOONER - When you’re born and raised in Kenya, you are exposed to another country, you start to realise how used we are to mediocracy. 2010-06-01T07:52:13Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/BLOG+Smoking+while+driving+what+next/-/634/927900/-/e7m5byz/-/index.html Kenyans have had enough of the notoriety of the public service vehicle crews- drivers and conductors- in recent times. 2010-05-28T14:45:36Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/BLOG+Referendum+symbols+a+poor+choice/-/634/920080/-/duu8c1/-/index.html ALPHONCE SHIUNDU on why the choice of 'red colour' for the 'No' camp and the 'green colour' for the 'Yes' camp raises allusions of a psychological bulldozing for the Proposed Constitution to sail through or be rejected come the August 4 referendum. 2010-05-17T13:05:05Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Who+is+Africa+s+preferred+UK+premier/-/634/893830/-/e0qmiv/-/index.html GITAU WARIGI - Gordon Brown looks dour, humourless, and a tad too serious. His younger opponent, the Conservative Party’s David Cameroon, is the exact opposite. Flashy, media-savvy, a bit too slick Aside from the good looks and the flashing smile, there is gnawing suspicion he is more dash than substance. 2010-04-06T12:47:42Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/What+does+manhood+involve/-/634/893704/-/12wr9gf/-/index.html What does it take to be a man in today's world? 2010-04-06T07:22:30Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Who+are+Kenyas+most+beautiful+women+and+handsome+men/-/634/885196/-/1372hwqz/-/index.html Who are the more beautiful and the more handsome in Kenya? Recently, Nation Media Group editor Charles Onyango-Obbo posted a tongue-in-cheek list on his Facebook page ranking what he considered the most beautiful African women and “handsomest” African men, as he put it. 2010-03-23T14:48:23Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/853472/-/6m1ta0/-/index.html SAMANTHA SPOONER argues that there is more to the abortion debate, issues that have been so neglected that they have become part of Kenya's social fabric. 2010-02-01T09:28:56Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/850014/-/6lyn1e/-/index.html Kenya is in dire need of investment in technology. That is why KAHENYA KAMUNYU is angry that the factors hindering growth are actually "policy" related, and not innovators or investors. 2010-01-26T14:26:03Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/843138/-/6lf7wx/-/index.html A phone call from a colleague alerted me to a demonstration that had escalated into chaos… and was happening right outside Nation Centre at the centre of down town Nairobi! Of course you have to rush down and look. 2010-01-15T15:45:21Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/838770/-/6kwafj/-/index.html Several factors have come up recently that have made me question whether the direction we are going in is the right one. 2010-01-09T07:20:26Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/837064/-/6kvfle/-/index.html SAMANTHA SPOONER on cars again… but this is the reason – it is where we are spending a huge proportion of our time these days. 2010-01-06T11:07:36Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/831146/-/6kraf4/-/index.html Of late, there have been reports in the media concerning the inhuman plight of overseas Kenyan labourers, especially those in the Arabian Gulf region. 2009-12-25T13:03:09Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/681290/-/5kojbw/-/index.html Everyone has one of those days when everything goes wrong. You know what they say – when it rains, it pours. And my drizzle began with a big workload and a computer that was not playing nice. 2009-11-03T07:47:15Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/654300/-/5iw15y/-/index.html CABRAL PINTO - Kenya’s own Janeth Jepkosgei lost the recent 800 metres race at the World Championships in Berlin to Caster Semenya of South Africa. Kenyans seem to be waiting for the answer to the question, “Is Miss Caster Semenya a woman?” 2009-09-07T13:54:11Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/641530/-/5i8fxp/-/index.html SALONI KANTARIA - Much speculation exists as to what happens next now that the ICC Prosecutor Louis Moreno-Ocampo has been provided the list of names and of the alleged masterminds and perpetrators of the December 2007 electoral violence. 2009-08-18T08:01:09Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/631094/-/5hlsaj/-/index.html Journalist SARAH ELDERKIN on why the post election violence in Rift Valley had little to do with the presidential poll. 2009-07-28T08:41:08Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/627130/-/5h4fxa/-/index.html William Ruto has of late been conjuring interesting heights on the Waki list, the ICC and a local tribunal to try post poll chaos perpetrators. 2009-07-21T08:05:08Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/441118/-/4f2vau/-/index.html I LAUGHED TO TEARS WATCHING on TV last week Immigration minister Otieno Kajwang’ display his talents as a comic. 2008-07-23T05:49:30Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/634/434974/-/4eilrw/-/index.html CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO: Sudan's President Omar el-Bashir has been indicted on genocide and war crimes in Darfur by the International Criminal Court (ICC). 2008-07-21T10:20:10Z