Time to reclaim Kenya's dream
As Kenya celebrates 53 years of independence, we have to remember that the dream of the country at independence was to eradicate ignorance, disease and poverty.
By Jennifer Muchiri 8 years ago
Time to reclaim Kenya's dream
We have become psychotic
The novel is set in a town aptly named He-Who-Drinks-Water-Is-An-Idiot. As the name suggests, everyone in this town is drunk on something so much so that being sober (drinking water) is the exception. It is a town characterised by drunkenness, crime, prostitution, violence, and general social and economic instability.
By Jennifer Muchiri 8 years ago
We have become psychotic
Youth must be taught how to be responsible
Who is willing to teach the youth that tribalism has no place in the making of a united nation? How will our young people know that leadership positions should not be determined by one’s ancestry or the depth of their pockets?
By Jennifer Muchiri 8 years ago
Youth must be taught how to be responsible
Mother's Day should be marked daily
The story of Ezi and Mma reminds us that mothers are unrivaled in their love and desire to tend to their children; that they will sacrifice their own lives if they have to if only to see their children safe and happy.
By Jennifer Muchiri 8 years ago
Mother's Day should be marked daily
Tribute to South Asian journalists
This book reveals that although South Asians may occupy an “in-between” space in Kenya, journalists of this heritage have played a major role in the making of this nation.
By Jennifer Muchiri 8 years ago
Tribute to South Asian journalists
Living with and conquering prejudice
Human beings often experience prejudice of one form or the other but each person deals with it differently depending on personality, exposure, or the circumstances in which one finds oneself.
By Jennifer Muchiri 8 years ago
Living with and conquering prejudice
Watch out for the stealthy investor from the East
About a week ago, Kenya police officers arrested 41 foreigners (22 Chinese and 19 Taiwanese) who were found setting up communication equipment in a house in Runda.
By Jennifer Muchiri 8 years ago
Watch out for the stealthy investor from the East
Making and unmaking of a terrorist
It is one year since the Garissa University terror attack in which 148 young men and women, both students and security officers, were senselessly killed.
By Jennifer Muchiri 8 years ago
Making and unmaking of a terrorist
Men need to support women
There are very few African novels that openly proclaim their feminism in the manner that Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter does.
By Jennifer Muchiri 8 years ago
Men need to support women
Embu residents opposed bid to raise circumcision fees
Embu residents are up in arms over an attempt to increase male circumcision charges in public hospitals.
By Jennifer Muchiri 8 years ago
Embu residents opposed bid to raise circumcision fees
Africa is a house of hunger
Africans are hungry for employment, democracy, honourable leadership, freedom, peace, justice, education, healthcare, equity in allocation of national resources and unity.
By Jennifer Muchiri 8 years ago
Africa is a house of hunger
Hatred is source of many of today’s wars
Five years since the war in Syria escalated, there does not seem to be any signs that the crisis will end soon.
By Jennifer Muchiri 8 years ago
Hatred is source of many of today’s wars
Golden dream can easily become worst nightmare
A few weeks ago it was reported that Chief Justice Willy Mutunga had said that Kenya has become a bandit economy — that Kenya is under the grip of mafia-like cartels and if we do not fight them we will become their slaves.
By Jennifer Muchiri 8 years ago
Golden dream can easily become worst nightmare
Which way for Kenya’s youth?
Where did we go wrong as a society? What drives these young people into crime? How can a person who seems intelligent or reasonable suddenly change and become a criminal? Indeed, what ails the Kenyan youth?
By Jennifer Muchiri 8 years ago
Which way for Kenya’s youth?
Can Uganda break Amin’s curse?
Uganda goes to the polls on February 18, 2016 to decide who their leaders for the next five years will be.
By Jennifer Muchiri 8 years ago
Can Uganda break Amin’s curse?
Where is hope for Africa?
Conflicts have been part of Africa for a long time. Currently there are conflicts, rebellions or civil unrest in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Burundi, Somalia, South Sudan
By Jennifer Muchiri 8 years ago
Where is hope for Africa?
Let’s Sing Marjorie’s Freedom Song
A literary elder has gone to join her peers in the land from which no one returns.
By Jennifer Muchiri 8 years ago
Let’s Sing Marjorie’s Freedom Song
'Arts and Crafts' will humanise Kenyan youth
In the past few months, there have been very worrying reports about students engaging in alcohol, group sex and truancy.
By Jennifer Muchiri 8 years ago
'Arts and Crafts' will humanise Kenyan youth
Dilemma of being Somali today
The unending state of lawlessness and instability in Somalia has seen desperate citizens seek refuge in many parts of the world.
By Jennifer Muchiri 8 years ago
Dilemma of being Somali today
Doctor Aluoch gets it off his chest in an autobiography
Medical practitioners are often very busy people. Most times they are in hospital consulting rooms listening to patients’ tribulations or rushing from one ward to another to attend to patients.
By Jennifer Muchiri 8 years ago
Doctor Aluoch gets it off his chest in an autobiography
Wanjiku wa Ngugi's novel a metaphor for greed
The word saint evokes in us expectations of piety, kindness, love, honesty, integrity, and other such terms associated with virtue.
By Jennifer Muchiri 9 years ago
Wanjiku wa Ngugi's novel a metaphor for greed
Yes, Europe is not the heaven illegal immigrants are made to believe
The current migrant crisis in Europe should be a concern not just to European countries to which the immigrants are running but to all other countries especially in Africa.
By Jennifer Muchiri 9 years ago
Yes, Europe is not the heaven illegal immigrants are made to believe
Kenya needs a fresh coat of paint
As women in leadership and civil society agitate for increased representation of women through legislation, another group is raising its voice in a different forum — art.
By Jennifer Muchiri 9 years ago
Kenya needs a fresh coat of paint
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