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
One of the key outcomes of the London G20 summit - perhaps even more important than Michelle Obama’s hug for the Queen - was the allowance for the IMF to allocate $250 billion worth of Special Drawing Rights. This could be the basis of a future global reserve currency outside the sovereign control of [...]
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 [...]
Recently, an old friend who lives in New York told me that he wanted to leave because he was convinced that he was in a fascist United States. A participant at a writing seminar handed me an essay to review in which she likened George Bush to Hitler and the people who voted for [...]
On Saturday July 2nd, Live8 concerts will be held in ten cities around the world. They will feature the biggest and most famous names in pop. Performing in London, at Hyde Park, will be the African Children’s Choir, Annie Lennox, Bob Geldof, Coldplay, Dido, Elton John, Joss Stone, Keane, The Killers, Madonna, Mariah [...]
Is it just me or is Kenya held captive by people who were born in the 16th Century? Whenever I see pictures such as this one, with an elderly politician or public servant standing in front of microphones, I always suspect that they are saying something vaguely ridiculous. I know it is a [...]
Kenya is many things and many peoples, a dizzying blend of communities and individuals; not a single entity with a common understanding of itself. A friend of mine recently asked: How does Kenya arrive in your village, at your doorstep? As a friend or a foe? In the case of the Pokot, or the [...]
The British Council in Nairobi on April 8th hosted a public debate on Kenya, Britain and the Mau Mau. On hand was David Anderson, writer of the critically acclaimed ‘Histories of the Hanged - Britain’s Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire’, one of two recent books that have re-written the history of [...]
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