Day former National Assembly Francis ole Kapraro was brought to order by wife in messy divorce case

Day former National Assembly Francis ole Kapraro was brought to order by wife in messy divorce case

After 40 years of marriage (since 1981), Maryanne filed for divorce alleging adultery, desertion and cruelty. But the real legal “Aha!” moment came when the door opened to the Matrimonial Property Act, where contribution – not just the name on the title deed – becomes the central truth.

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Destiny: Pause daily outrage over ‘Nairobery’, intersection of riches and integrity still exists

Destiny: Pause daily outrage over ‘Nairobery’, intersection of riches and integrity still exists

Otieno stood in the middle of the living room, speechless. Jabali ran straight to the bedroom, leaping onto the mattress with a laugh that echoed down the hallway. Something inside Wanjiku softened completely.

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Just because I’m Black: Questioning why Afro-American Vivien Thomas who pioneered paediatric cardiac surgery is overlooked

Just because I’m Black: Questioning why Afro-American Vivien Thomas who pioneered paediatric cardiac surgery is overlooked

Babies were dying from a heart defect called tetralogy of Fallot – “blue baby syndrome.” The condition starved the body of oxygen, turning babies’ skin blue. Most died in infancy. There was no treatment. No surgery existed that could fix it.

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Freedom is coming: How Iraq’s Saddam Hussein neighbour Zainab survived violence to build women’s most powerful tool in the world

Freedom is coming: How Iraq’s Saddam Hussein neighbour Zainab survived violence to build women’s most powerful tool in the world

In 1991, at age 19, Zainab escaped Iraq through an arranged marriage to an older Iraqi man living in the United States. Her family saw it as salvation – a way out before the Gulf War made leaving impossible. Zainab thought it was freedom. She was wrong. The marriage that saved her from Saddam’s Iraq became its own prison. Her husband was controlling, isolating and abusive. She’d escaped one authoritarian regime only to land in another – this one domestic, private, and just as suffocating.

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How Russian flotilla commander Vasili Arkhipov prevented World War III with a simple ‘No’ and saved 8 billion lives

How Russian flotilla commander Vasili Arkhipov prevented World War III with a simple ‘No’ and saved 8 billion lives

October 28, US President John F. Kennedy and USSR President Nikita Khrushchev reached an agreement. The missiles in Cuba would be removed. The crisis ended. But it had nearly ended very differently. In the dark, underwater, three men almost started World War III – and one man stopped them.

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In a system designed to kill you, invisibility is survival: How silence saved German girl assigned to serve Nazi murders

In a system designed to kill you, invisibility is survival: How silence saved German girl assigned to serve Nazi murders

They settled in Queens. Flora worked multiple jobs – seamstress, whatever she could find – long hours at immigrant wages that barely covered rent. But she had a purpose beyond survival: her son would have the freedom, opportunity and voice stolen from her.

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Dismissed and ostracised: Intriguing story of America’s trailblazing Back Dr Margaret Morgan Lawrence who revolutionised child psychiatry and psychoanalysis

Dismissed and ostracised: Intriguing story of America’s trailblazing Back Dr Margaret Morgan Lawrence who revolutionised child psychiatry and psychoanalysis

Psychiatry and psychoanalysis in the 1940s were overwhelmingly white, male and oriented toward treating wealthy private patients in Manhattan consulting rooms. The dominant theoretical frameworks were Freudian, focused on individual psychosexual development, with little consideration of social context, racism, or structural oppression.

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How in a tiny rented in 1896 in Detroit, US, Henry Ford built the first gasoline-powered car and changed the way the world travels

How in a tiny rented in 1896 in Detroit, US, Henry Ford built the first gasoline-powered car and changed the way the world travels

Seven years later, on June 16, 1903, Ford launched the Ford Motor Company in a small converted carriage factory in Detroit. The company’s first year brought in $37,000 in profit against $28,000 in investment.

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How philosopher John Dewey’s ‘school of chaos’ similar to Competency-Based Education in Kenya catapulted America to industrial giant

How philosopher John Dewey’s ‘school of chaos’ similar to Competency-Based Education in Kenya catapulted America to industrial giant

There were no rigid lessons. Children learned math by running a store, science by cooking, history by building tools. They moved. They spoke. They failed in public. Dewey treated mistakes as data, not disobedience. Knowledge came from experience, not recitation.

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