High cost of thinking aloud

Activists and friends of Albert Ojwang' engage a police officer protesting outside the Nairobi Funeral home at the Mbagathi way- Ngong road round-about demanding justice following Albert Ojwang's death while in police custody. June 9, 2025. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

Malala Yousafzai once said, “let us pick our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.” In my beloved country, however, it is increasingly becoming illegal to embrace books and pens and to allow them to refine and guide our thinking.