This week I have a piece in the East African from my recent trip to Central America. Visiting Colombia is the only time this past few months I have felt hopeful in a practical way that there is a way to bring Kenya back to some semblance of function.
Uribe’s style
Simon Johnson, a former economist at the International Monetary Fund, argues that Wall Street holds the Western and particularly American political class captive. If this were in the so called Third World, the IMF would know exactly how to break up this cozy relationship. In other words, how would an American structural adjustment [...]
The Chinese call for the creation of a new global reserve currency is a sign of weakness and not strength - according to the man with the op-ed momentum: Paul Krugman (link)
By the way, does anyone know what Samir Amin of ‘delinking’ fame is writing about the present crisis? I have not read much [...]
A country created by grand theft, ruled by a clique
(Originally printed in the East African on January 14, 2008)
Robbery has thrived in Kenya for many decades now. The very creation of Kenya a century ago was an act of grand theft. Our country won its independence but has never broken free from the idea that [...]
This piece appeared in the East African in the second week of January 7, 2008 as Kenya continued to burn.
Ethnic strife: How Kenya’s politics was tribalised
It is Friday, December January 4. I walk through the lobby of the Serena Hotel in Nairobi. Packs of politicians and their entourages hurry past. Most have mobile phones into [...]
Everyone reading this blog must know that Kenya is aflame. We have burnt churches with dozens trapped in them, we have seen a peaceful election with the highest turnout in our history end as farce and the number of displaced citizens has risen to more than 100,000. I wrote a piece last [...]
Dear Baba,
This is an odd and public and rhetorical letter, on a subject that recent tradition has asked us to sweep under the carpet. I find myself, at 35, at odds with the tone and nature and political space that is Gikuyu. For the first time in my life, in the Kibaki government, my identity [...]
My oh my, I have not blogged for the past two weeks. It is because I have been actually trying to get my running going (not going very well I must say), working and writing, all which has left me absolutely exhausted and strangely blog-mute if you know what I mean. My life [...]
There is much I could say about modern-day slavery in Mauritania, Niger and Sudan. But let me instead turn to the dirty little secret that so many of us Kenyans know but maintain a studied silence about. Yes, I am talking about the lot of the ‘mboch’, the housie, the maid, in good [...]
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