Intent vs process: How late PM Raila Odinga headed off apocalypse during 2024 Kenyan youth uprising
A fitting example of what would have befallen the Kenyan Gen Z played out in Tanzania during the October 29 presidential election. More than 3,000 Tanzanian youths that were agitating for regime change, democratic space, sanctity of life, social justice and freedom of expression, were mowed down by the country’s military and trigger-happy police.
Communities in western Kenya wary of curse of incestuous marriages as urban culture permeate rural relationships
While the modern world changes, the roots of tradition must not be dumped. The stories, taboos and sacred codes of conduct that have bound communities together for centuries are not relics of the past – they are reminders of identity, unity and respect for ancestry.
Dysfunction as preferred control tool of Africa: Case of Museveni dissembling Uganda and East Africa
In Uganda, the Generation Zs have heard President Tibuhaburwa Museveni pronounce that interests are superior to identity and belonging, and are now aware that the enemy number one of the identities and belonging of the indigenous groups of Uganda is President Tibuhaburwa Museveni
Student activism to Gen-Z activism: How radical Dar University student leader Kichamu Akivaga sowed seeds of ideological shift that makes Tanzanians fear Kenyans
Because of his extremist stance, Kichamu Akivaga fell in trouble with Tanzanian state and university authorities that instigated Tanzanian students to overthrow him, replacing him with a Tanzanian student leader who toed the line.
Nairobi bids goodbye to Kenya’s most resilient and consequential reformist Raila Odinga who tore down country’s institutions of oppression
President William Ruto said Odinga deserved the honour for having been a legislator for 15 years, a role he used to play “a pivotal role in shaping some of the most consequential laws in our Republic’s history.”
