Barrack Muluka

We are victims of the culture of claptrap and dead psyche

The top brass around power is either a cocktail of perfect dissemblers, or they are simply dead. Whatever the case, they are to be pitied.

Barrack Muluka

IEBC must assert itself and earn our faith in its fairness

I am waiting to understand how election campaigns will be conducted in the prisons. Elections are about candidates selling their agenda to the electorate and offering themselves for election.

Barrack Muluka

NASA leaders must herald an epiphany we can believe in

This NASA moment bears both the bright character of an epiphany and the dull outlook of yet another false promise – a political de ja vu.

Barrack Muluka

Fringe parties could save us from failed leadership

In his introduction to William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Stephen King envies the reader who is experiencing Golding’s dystopia for the first time. He recalls his own first encounter with Lord of the Flies and Golding’s subsequent testimony on the origins of this disturbing story.

Barrack Muluka

Inward-looking democracy is the huge paradox of our time

We live in the Age of Ethnic Hate. Whether you define ethnicity as tribe, race, culture or religion, local and international communities seem only too eager to embrace dangerous neo-nationalism, riding on the wheels of destructive ethnic narrow-mindedness.

Barrack Muluka

Opinion: Amina defeat blow to Jubilee and not a national tragedy

There was so much high-level commotion at home in the lead up to this humbling fiasco. Like many people in my country, I began to believe it was a closed deal. Victory seemed a matter of course. Our leaders assured us that they had done their homework.

Barrack Muluka

Leaders in wild jungle dance for voters as Kenyans suffer

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) kick-started the process in a fashion reminiscent of where the Christian Good Book says, “In those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. And all went out to be registered, each to his own town (Luke 2:1).”

Barrack Muluka

Obama leaves office after a dignified tour of duty

Obama and Michelle can now sit on the balcony in the evening and watch the sun set over a cup of tea, without the burden of worrying on behalf of their country and the world at large