By Maurice Aluda
This month women all over the world are celebrating their Month, which officially kicked off last Monday. International Women’s Day (8 March) is an occasion marked by women’s groups around the world. It is during this occasion that women on all continents, often divided by national boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic [...]
By Patrick Idwasi PhD | Oklahoma
Reading the Daily Nation end of year article (Good Economist, Bad politician by Murithi Mutiga, December 27th 2009) about Kibaki and his apparent success on the economy and failure in politics, it is not difficult to see that the author and the paper are both not objective arbiters [...]
By Caroline Kusa Kwatemba
As Kenya and the world gear up to celebrating the Earth day on April 22, 2010; we need to take cognizance of the fact that the world and its people have changed a great deal, most changes are man made. Man himself has decided to change, what God has made for [...]
By Carolyne Gichuki
Fish catches at Lake Victoria have declined, due to increased population pressure on the resource, too many people exploiting the resource, use of illegal gears and climate chage affecting the ecology of the lake.
Today the people who’s livehood depend on the Lake have turned to sand mining from the lake beach region [...]
By Hudson Gumbihi
EVEN before agricultural credit lending institutions in Kenya come to terms with the effects of the devastating global economic crisis on their business, they have been thrown into yet another tricky situation where they have to fight the impact of the ravaging drought that has led to massive crop failure and livestock deaths.
Conversely, [...]
By Patrick Idwasi PhD
In two mama mbogas mama Ciku and mama Atieno are selling tomatoes and mama Ciku finds that mama Atieno had lower prices she would immediately embark on a mission to find out what her secret was. Was it her source? Was she using cheaper transportation? Was she targeting higher volume sale thus [...]
By Kengere Ombasa
Reports that Kshs 1.3 million contributed by the government in Nairobi and the donor community towards Free Primary Education Funds (FPE) may have been mis-appropriated are disgusting, to say the least. This is especially so when it comes hot on the heels of other claims that kshs.75 million meant for SEPU and Kshs. [...]
By Peter Clottey, VOA, Washington, DC
The deputy president of Kenya’s National Human Rights Commission says Kenyans want more checks and balances in their government.
Post-election violence led to the demand for democratic reforms. Hassan Omar said citizens have been vocal in their opinions and expectations about the current draft constitution.
The debate on the draft constitution ends [...]
By Isaac Masidza
Hello folks. This column is back and will hopefully ran for a long time till another break. I have to indulge your apologies for being AWOL (absent without official leave) but I can explain that. You see I was sent to do some work for some organization in one of the many God [...]
By Maurice Aluda
In act 1 of Nikolai Vasilyevitch Gogol’s The Government Inspector the governor calls together the leading town officials to discuss strategies for covering up the extent of corruption, incompetence, and inadequacy in the town’s public institutions from the eyes of the government inspector — who is expected to arrive any day. The governor [...]
