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Does Henry Dunant Have a Legacy in Africa?
May 8th is the international Red Cross Day. It coincides with the birthday of the late Henry Dunant. He was the founder of the Red Cross Movement, as well as the YMCA, and the inaugural recipient of...
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What Sepp Blatter’s Resignation Could Mean for Africa
In the past week the world of football has been rocked by the indictments of several FIFA officials, by the American Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as the opening of investigations, by Swiss...
View ArticleHow #cecilthelion is part of the problem, not the solution
By the time you are reading this, the outrage will likely have died down, and the world’s twitterati will have moved on to some other outrage. Anyway, for a brief moment, the death of Cecil the Lion,...
View ArticleSolidarity Tomorrow: How everybody lost in Kenya’s Teacher’s Strike
The month of September has seen Kenya’s Education sector undergo, what may go down as the most pivotal teachers’ strike in the sectors history. This being part of a court dispute over pay rise, itself...
View ArticleOn Violence and the Selective Memories of Kenyan Society
Violence is a part of Kenyan history. From the brutality visited upon resistance to colonial rule, to the marginalization and ‘security crackdowns’ of the first decades of independence, to the...
View ArticleBibi The Lion: Wildlife Conservation and the Encroachment Single Story
The death by poisoning of ‘Bibi’ the 17 year matriarch of a lion pride that was the centerpiece of the globally televised wildlife documentary ‘Big Cat Diaries’ has once again re-ignited the debate on...
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When Richard Comes Pounding on Athletics Kenya’s Door
Kenya’s athletics has a problem. Richard Pound, a World anti Doping Agency (WADA) investigator renowned for his work uncovering doping in track and field, was due to release an investigative report...
View ArticleWither EACC: Kenya’s failing War on Corruption
That Kenya’s politicians have a corruption problem is not news. That Kenya’s politicians will stop at nothing to evade accountability is also not news either. So much so that it became normal for them...
View ArticleDisciplining a Kenyan, the old Fashioned way
Kenya’s University of Nairobi has been closed indefinitely. Student protests over the reelection of Student Union president Babu Owino, led to violence in the streets of Nairobi, and the dreaded...
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Has the time Come for Africa to Host the Olympics?
Africans have participated in the Olympics in some form or the other since 1904.South Africa sent a team to the London games. Since then as number as have grown as African countries gained their...
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