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Today, young Brenda Gitonga could perhaps be cheerfully taking care of her father's dream project of constructing residential houses in a remote part of Meru County.But that is not the case. Instead, into the fifth month, 23-year-old Brenda and some relatives is not only mourning the death of her fa
In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, there is a character named Squealer, a pig whose sole purpose is to serve as the regime’s chief propagandist. With a nimble command of language and a disregard for truth, Squealer convinces the other animals that their failing memories are in fact evidence of sheer pr
I was in the United States on March 9, 2013, when at about 3am Nairobi time, the Kenyan media reported that the election commission had declared Uhuru Kenyatta winner of the Presidential election.Not too long after, I was startled to see a phone call coming in from Michael Gichangi, the head of the
The third decade of the 21st Century is full of uncertainty as three leaders of top powers seem determined to destroy the post-World War II world order. The trio, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, China’s Xi Jinping, and America’s Donald Trump, have similar orientation towards society and their regions. Each
There are people whose lives read like the story of a nation. Raila Amolo Odinga was one of them. I have been reflecting not just about the man who earned the name Baba, but about the country he helped shape, steady, and soften in ways we may only appreciate now.He was many things to many people. A
Strathmore Leos are quietly turning heads in the new 2025–2026 Kenya Cup season.The university outfit collected back-to-back wins that have pushed them into early conversations about playoff contenders.The students, coached by the ambitious Willis Ojal, are not talking about the title yet, but their
NAIROBI – When Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo stepped off Kenya Airways flight KQ764 from Dar es Salaam on Wednesday evening, the arrivals hall at JKIA erupted. Mothers waved placards reading “Our Sons Are Home” while Gen Z activists sang the national anthem through tears.
RIYADH/NAIROBI – They have Kenyan blood but no Kenyan papers. They speak Arabic before they speak Swahili or Luhya or Kikuyu. They are the children born to Kenyan domestic workers in Saudi Arabia – and right now more than 500 of them are growing up in government orphanages because neither Riyadh nor Nairobi seems willing to claim them.
ELDORET – Twenty-four-year-old Emmanuel Kipchoge Cheruiyot (no relation to the marathon legend) left his village in Moiben on a cold July morning with a small backpack and a promise of $2,000 a month. Three months later his mother received a single photo: Emmanuel in Russian camouflage, holding an AK-12 somewhere near the Ukrainian border.
NAIROBI – At exactly 11:17 a.m. on Friday, November 21, 2025, the Central Bank of Kenya’s real-time remittances dashboard rolled past the symbolic figure: KSh 1,000,000,000,000. One trillion shillings sent home by Kenyans living abroad in just ten months –
