Let's handle the transition in education keenly
This year's Class 8 is the last 8-4-4 cohort all the way to university. The learners must go steady up to the finishing line. They have no room for stumbling.
By Barrack Muluka 4 months ago
Let's handle the transition in education keenly
Priceless life's lessons from King Charles tour
Some of us remember the royal wedding in 1981, between Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. It was the talk of the whole world, in the prime of our youth.
By Barrack Muluka 4 months ago
Priceless life's lessons from King Charles tour
Only a lean government can get us out of this pit
The bigger trouble is that we fear the facts. We are content to scratch at the surface and to address the symptoms. The facts are too inconvenient to be confronted.
By Barrack Muluka 4 months ago
Only a lean government can get us out of this pit
It's what it is, but it is not all doom and gloom
We feed ourselves on intended hostility towards those who don't agree with us, paralysing cynicism, and a sense of rank hopelessness. The heart wants to sink.
By Barrack Muluka 5 months ago
It's what it is, but it is not all doom and gloom
Rethink forced migration to reflect today's reality
Before the modern-day international system, through the League of Nations and later the United Nations, the story of man was about migration, might and conquest.
By Barrack Muluka 5 months ago
Rethink forced migration to reflect today's reality
Ruling class must stop fighting, mend the nation
The hopelessness and desperation is real. The recent feverish rush in the Worldcoin saga, and the dizzying scramble for a place in the military, speak to this.
By Barrack Muluka 5 months ago
Ruling class must stop fighting, mend the nation
Grand theft has killed dreams, it's not pilferage
The cost of living is rising like the tide. I lie if I say I know where we are headed. I can only say we are in a very bad place.
By Barrack Muluka 6 months ago
Grand theft has killed dreams, it's not pilferage
Summit served rude awakening on real danger
We are destroying the planet. Our activities are destroying the environment and changing the climate, for worse. The globe is warming, as a factor of greenhouse gas emissions.
By Barrack Muluka 6 months ago
Summit served rude awakening on real danger
Reigning chaos reflects our nation's sick soul
The above-the-law-multiple-cross-scissor motorbikes are the ultimate reflection of the state of the collective mind and the sick soul of the nation.
By Barrack Muluka 6 months ago
Reigning chaos reflects our nation's sick soul
Yes, someone can be living and dead at once
Death, in African context, is incomplete for a long time. Provided that at least one person who knew the departed is still alive and remembers them, the person is dead but alive.
By Barrack Muluka 6 months ago
Yes, someone can be living and dead at once
Keep Kenyan dream alive amid restless defeatism
Kenya sits at an intriguing crossroads. It's 60 years of independence and ten years of devolution. Independence in 1963 came with a rich raft of dreams. A blessed land and nation.
By Barrack Muluka 6 months ago
Keep Kenyan dream alive amid restless defeatism
What team Ruto and Azimio must agree on first
What is the big question? Azimio's grievances have been mercurial, where they are not fluid and chameleonic.
By Barrack Muluka 7 months ago
What team Ruto and Azimio must agree on first
Just like a heart must pause to breathe, this column takes a rest
Whatever the case, in order not to depart like Okeke, 'The heart must pause to breathe/ And love itself have a rest.' And this column too. 'So we'll go no more a roving, so late into the night.
By Barrack Muluka 1 year ago
Just like a heart must pause to breathe, this column takes a rest
Let opposition get out of angry spaces and face issues soberly
The human factors behind our angry opposition are easy to understand. Election loss invariably leaves you in a bad place. Many do not even want to believe the election is lost.
By Barrack Muluka 1 year ago
Let opposition get out of angry spaces and face issues soberly
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Period of forming government too long and costly to economy
The swearing-in of the Cabinet this week, and the vetting process before that, both remind us that it will be quite some time before the Kenya Kwanza Government is fully in place.
By Barrack Muluka 1 year ago
Period of forming government too long and costly to economy
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Yes, be ambitious not just for raw power but to uplift others
Ambition must be about the people, not a maddening craving for power. We don't know how many people Macbeth kills in his ambitious pursuit for power.
By Barrack Muluka 1 year ago
Yes, be ambitious not just for raw power but to uplift others
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Uhuru Kenyatta must resign from Azimio, let Ruto rule as Raila reigns
While he has not spoken for Azimio since the inauguration of President William Ruto, Uhuru remains the supreme leader of Azimio, unless he formally steps down.
By Barrack Muluka 1 year ago
Uhuru Kenyatta must resign from Azimio, let Ruto rule as Raila reigns
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Voodoo theorists, know-it-alls now scaring everybody on GMOs
The war is on, again, against genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and especially in maize grain production. Sundry pansophists and voodoo theorists are at work, scaring everybody.
By Barrack Muluka 1 year ago
Voodoo theorists, know-it-alls now scaring everybody on GMOs
William Ruto's address to MPs set a bold start, he must keep eye on target
The true test will be in specific Bills and what they seek to achieve. For now, beyond the broad-brush capsule of the future, not much can be expected or done.
By Barrack Muluka 1 year ago
William Ruto's address to MPs set a bold start, he must keep eye on target
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Azimio team faces perilous political future after election loss
Internal disorganisation and serious managerial gaps in the campaign effort led to defeat. Raila, Karua and Kalonzo face the uphill task of remaining politically relevant in future.
By Barrack Muluka 1 year ago
Azimio team faces perilous political future after election loss
Azimio's false majority in House and their role as the Opposition
Belonging to a political formation cannot make you a prisoner to it. You are not obliged to agree with everything in the formation, and to remain there as if you were serving a jail term.
By Barrack Muluka 1 year ago
Azimio's false majority in House and their role as the Opposition
Kenyans must refuse to be part of attack on public institutions
A bad workman quarrels with his tools, and a poor husbandman with the workers. In Kenya, we quarrel with our tools every election season.
By Barrack Muluka 1 year ago
Kenyans must refuse to be part of attack on public institutions
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Uhuru's unhappy ending and what majority will remember
Dr Ruto is the new leader of Kenya. Mr Odinga is the leader of the Opposition. Painful, but true. The law, the people, and God have said.
By Barrack Muluka 1 year ago
Uhuru's unhappy ending and what majority will remember
Our Judiciary has stood tall in push and shove for democracy
The political and electoral saga that has gone on in our country these past few years can tease us with tedium. It even infuses into us a sense of hopelessness.
By Barrack Muluka 1 year ago
Our Judiciary has stood tall in push and shove for democracy
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Raila-Ruto: Is Kenya sinking during its Age of Reason?
We saw that at the Bomas of Kenya. Busy bodies, some with crude clubs disguised as traditional attire, interrupted presidential vote tallying activities. This will, hopefully, not happen at top court.
By Barrack Muluka 1 year ago
Raila-Ruto: Is Kenya sinking during its Age of Reason?
MCAs who fought 'tooth and nail' to retain seats
The hotly-contested polls saw some fall by the wayside; others got a lifeline while a new breed of legislators was birthed.
By Barrack Muluka 1 year ago
MCAs who fought 'tooth and nail' to retain seats
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Kenya awaits next President
By 4pm, IEBC put the voter turnout at 56.17 per cent, with their projections indicating a 60 per cent final turnout.
By Barrack Muluka 1 year ago
Kenya awaits next President
Locals cry out for help as Turkana manyatta attack death toll hits 10
James Kanen, 44, a pastoralist and businessman, lost four children in the attack that also left his wife nursing serious burn injuries.
By Barrack Muluka 1 year ago
Locals cry out for help as Turkana manyatta attack death toll hits 10
Al-Zawahri's path went from Cairo clinic to top of al-Qaida
Al-Zawahri, 71, was killed over the weekend by a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan. President Joe Biden announced the death Monday evening in an address to the nation.
By Barrack Muluka 1 year ago
Al-Zawahri's path went from Cairo clinic to top of al-Qaida
Rugby league players refuse to play NRL game in gay pride jerseys
Seven Manly Sea Eagles players have withdrawn from a National Rugby League match in Australia because they're unwilling to wear their club's inclusion jersey
By Barrack Muluka 1 year ago
Rugby league players refuse to play NRL game in gay pride jerseys
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Echoes from 2017 and IEBC's unenviable task before and after polls
Claims of planned rigging, unfinished business between Chebukati and Chiloba could determine how elections go as commission walks the tightrope over the next three weeks
By Barrack Muluka 1 year ago
Echoes from 2017 and IEBC's unenviable task before and after polls
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Martha Karua can't lecture anyone on anger, her tantrums are legend
Muluka doubts Karua could stand on any moral high ground to question anyone's emotional comportment. In her own way, she has anger issues, which she is unable to manage in public.
By Barrack Muluka 1 year ago
Martha Karua can't lecture anyone on anger, her tantrums are legend
Why it's dishonest to blow Ruto slap remarks out of proportion
To blow out of proportion Ruto's hyperbole is fine. Not so fine is to cast aspersions on the integrity of IEBC. Experience has it that with such rail at IEBC, they will reject results.
By Barrack Muluka 1 year ago
Why it's dishonest to blow Ruto slap remarks out of proportion
In whose hands? The State must disclose deals with other entities
Kenya's narrative on corruption revolves around denial, scapegoating and hypocrisy. Last week's column wondered who 'we' refers to in the question, "In whose hands are we safe?"
By Barrack Muluka 1 year ago
In whose hands? The State must disclose deals with other entities
No Mr President, we are not yet brave enough to undo land theft
Kenya has witnessed systematic derogation of land rights over the past 59 years. Public land, especially, has been stolen with impunity.
By Barrack Muluka 1 year ago
No Mr President, we are not yet brave enough to undo land theft
If this election is about cost of living, which coalition wins it?
Besides belonging to certain tribes, there is nothing special about these three people. It surprises me that we should follow any one of them, just because they are from our tribe.
By Barrack Muluka 1 year ago
If this election is about cost of living, which coalition wins it?
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Whittle down fear of defeat and let big four compete for top seat
Informing the campaigns is fear of losing this all important single poll. When people ask whether the IEBC is ready for the elections, they mean the presidential election. The stakes are that high.
By Barrack Muluka 1 year ago
Whittle down fear of defeat and let big four compete for top seat
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Insults before and after prayers expose hypocrite politicians
The prayer day starts bordering on a hollow copycat event, an empty isomorphic mimicry. For, it was borrowed from offshore without the philosophical underpinnings of the original.
By Barrack Muluka 1 year ago
Insults before and after prayers expose hypocrite politicians
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Barrack Muluka: Why I won't be quick to send my congratulations to Martha Karua
I need clarity before I can catch up with those excited about you running with Mr Odinga. Have you had a quiet moment with him, to explain what happened on that tragic December day?
By Barrack Muluka 1 year ago
Barrack Muluka: Why I won't be quick to send my congratulations to Martha Karua
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Cabinet meeting used to sanitise the illegalities of last two years
The Cabinet is the highest council in the country's national executive. It constitutionally comprises the President, Deputy President, AG and not more than 22 Cabinet Secretaries.
By Barrack Muluka 1 year ago
Cabinet meeting used to sanitise the illegalities of last two years
KU bus accident: Seven airlifted to Nairobi for treatment
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