The culture of announcing results is totally backward, and stale. It is useless and must stop!

Nothing is more dispiriting to the electorate than to learn that their vote has been manipulated and/or rigged.

One of the most recent striking political developments in this country has been the rise of opinion surveys.

Greeks were the first people to come up with the first known cultured society around 505 B.C.

It looks the African story will continue to be distorted until it develops its own media resources strong enough to be heard - in broadcast and print.

In an election based on issues, those who offer themselves for re-election will be evaluated against the record of what they have or not achieved.

Jesus himself never celebrated Christmas as his birthday the 33 years on earth and he never taught the disciples to remember it.

Our voting has not been consistent with this theory with highly educated people being the most ethnically intolerant.

There is a stampede by presidential candidates for Western Kenya vote.

The outcome of this country’s General Election for the last three decades has been determined to a large extent by the tribal factor.

As the world will be celebrating World Aids day on December 1, it is prudent to review the fight on the scourge. Since the start of 21st century, HIV and Aids have increasingly been labelled an “African disease”. The specter of HIV/Aids, whenever mentioned these days, invariably points in the direction of Africa, probably because of prohibitive, almost unbelievable statistics on HIV/Aids. According to UNAIDS, since the epidemic began, over 60 million people have been infected.

Recently, African leaders converged in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at AU headquarters to take stock of their success and celebrate their “unity” which has remained elusive since the death of Nkrumah but only liberating elites, rulers and dictators.