When giving an outline of what his presidency would deliver (if indeed he wins in the upcoming election) the Deputy Prime Minister, Musalia Mudavadi, spoke of creating 1.5 million jobs within a fairly short time after he was sworn in. This is a fair enough pledge, as far as politics goes. It shows a willingness to engage in the ‘real issues’ which affect ordinary Kenyans. For surely each of us knows many parents who fi...

Most Kenyans are well aware that the current Prime Minister (and presidential candidate) Raila Odinga, spent much of the 1980s being shuttled in and out between the courts and remand prison or detention. This was his fate, as the man seen by the Moi government of those days, as its most dangerous enemy.All the same he was to eventually form a short-lived political partnership with this very same President, Daniel arap Moi in 2001, and to serve...

 I once knew a woman, an accomplished professional, who after years of resisting the pleas from various women’s groups at her ‘ancestral home’, decided to take the plunge and run for a parliamentary seat. Given the rich diversity of her previous voluntary and philanthropic work among the women of that constituency, she was expected to easily defeat the sitting MP, who – like so many MPs at the end of t...

On those Saturdays or Sundays, when the Nyayo stadium hosts a face-off between the Gor Mahia and AFC Leopards football clubs, many Nairobi motorists find it prudent to avoid going anywhere near that stadium. I imagine there must have been many matches between these two formidable teams which ended without any mishap: no stones flung left and right; no clouds of teargas; no innocent motorists left gazing in horror at smashed windscreens...