Tag: Kenya

Our towns are crying for icons

  By Eric Wamanji Rural folks and school kids who visit Nairobi will almost always take home a similar memento – a shot of themselves with...

Will the pontiff afflict the comfortable in Kenya?

Eric Wamanji Another diplomatic boom for Kenya looms in the skylines. It’s just a matter of weeks before the pontiff lands a chartered Alitalia in...

Obama fever aside, we still fancy mediocrity

Erick Wamanji When the voice of Barack Obama boomed through the hall, Kenya was rising to fever pitch. There was hope. The country saw...

It is a matter of when, not if Al-Shabaab will blast our schools

By Eric Wamanji Schools in Kenya are on at one of the most sensitive periods in our history. A time when, it appears, going by...

How Kenya’s broadcasters create false spirituality

By Eric Wamanji Praise the Lord… Praise the Lord … Praise… Amen…Amen…Amen… Sunday- in Kenya, where the Christian cacophonic mantra cascades through broadcasting sphere like...

It’s a battle of the wits, to beat Shabaab we need smart cops

By Eric Wamanji People, Kenya is grieving, and rightly so. But, we are a terrified lot. Very petrified like a goat whose handler is clutching a...
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