The recent Supreme Court judgement which affirmed the ruling of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, was not unexpected. As Abimbola Adelaku, one of my favourite columnists, summed...
Big men from two former colonial powers in East Africa were in the region at the same time last week, softly singing mea culpas. President Frank-Walter...
Just as we started mimicking some French phrases ahead of our acquiring French visas for next year’s Olympics, authorities in Kinshasa and Kampala last week announced...
Two mainstream newspapers have reported that President William Ruto has made 38 trips abroad in the past year. That’s three trips every month! Just the other...
Everyone in this world is entitled to 15 minutes of fame– is a legendary quote mis-attributed to the American pop icon Andy Warhol. Over the years,...
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant: “We are fighting human animals”. “Human animals” might be referring to the fact that biologically we are all animals, being part...
Since the May 29, 2023 inauguration of public officers, some of them have been carrying on as if there is a prize for whoever emerges as...
The United Nations Security Council has approved deploying a Kenya-led international mission to Haiti to curb gang violence. The gangs have taken over most of the...
In a conversation with my wife a couple of weeks ago, I told her we are living in a historic moment in Morocco’s centuries-old and rich...
Pictures of thousands of youths who turned up for the Kenya Defence Forces recruitment drive a few weeks ago told a story beyond that of the...