Why frustrated Kenyan public sometimes sees legal profession as a constituency of brats, thieves
Why don’t lawyers want to work for the government and then supplement their income from a private practice like any other career people? Architects do that; nurses do that. Even doctors and teachers. Why do they feel they should be given preferential treatment?
Stolen from Africa, taken to England: Queen of England called her goddaughter, to history a gift
James Pinson Labulo Davies and Sarah Forbes Bonetta photographed in London in 1862.
Strength of a father: My wife walked out and left me to raise our blind twin babies alone; 18 years later the twins dumped her
As the years passed, Emma and Clara grew into confident young women who moved through the world with surprising independence. They navigated school with white canes and quiet determination, made friends who respected them, and spent countless hours refining their sewing skills. Sometimes they asked me simple questions while working.
Tuju’s Dari case is legal masterclass heist after EADB bank paid for land but declined to disburse $2m for construction, then rejected KCB buyout
The East African Development Bank (EADB) never advanced the purchase funds to Raphael Tuju. Instead, they opted for direct disbursement, paying the vendors (the Scottish family) straight.
Shadow purse: How Kenya’s Conflict of Interest Act okays an international bank to sneak into your wallet
Imagine a bank that doesn’t need your permission to take your money. Not through a loan, not through a fee, but directly from your taxes. In Kenya, this isn’t a conspiracy theory – it’s been a legal reality for over 40 years. Let us understand how this works (against you):...
IMF and World Bank are back and are scurrilous: Ex-minister Raphael Tuju and Kwale Dam are their first casualties via Conflict of Interest Act
For us, what’s attractive is the cabinet secretary? Is he not tall, black and handsome? He knows his thing. He is Eng Eric Muriithi Mugaa, the youngest cabinet secretary, freshly minted – and nominated! So, is the guy at the dam project updating us and going for parliamentary meetings?
Moral of beautiful slave girl story: While slavery poisoned relationships, it also contained potions that were exploited to resist victimisation
Over the following months, James and Margaret grieved separately and together. Their marriage continued, now bound more by shared loss than by the previous strange happiness.
They never spoke openly of what they had shared with Isabelle, but the ghost of those years haunted Belmont Plantation.
Power and glory: How elegant and intelligent slave girl conquered and married both colonel and his wife on Belmont Plantation in Mississippi
James would request Isabelle’s presence in the library for literary discussions. Margaret would keep Isabelle with her for hours, their conversations growing increasingly intimate. By the winter of 1848, the situation reached a crisis point.
Raphael Tuju betrayed: If Kenyan judiciary can be silenced while our land is stolen through manufactured defaults, then we’ve no future
If anyone is doubting what I’m saying, please respond to me: Why did the Supreme Court judge quorum take to their heels and recuse themselves? If you have the answer to that question, you know that what happened is wrong.
Just because she’s Black: Nina Mae McKinney, the first Black performer in Hollywood was banished from memory the minute she died
McKinney was born in Lancaster, South Carolina on June 12, 1912, and arrived in Harlem as a teenager carrying a face the press would struggle to describe because nothing in their vocabulary had been built to hold a Black woman’s beauty without diminishing it.
