My motivation is to impact youths by empowering and mentoring them
My day starts at 5.30am. I pray, plan my day and then prepare breakfast for my family. I arrive in the office at 8.30am with my daughter Gathoni who is the project co-ordinator. I run an NGO that is empowering and mentoring the youth into entrepreneurship hence I am usually involved in so many projects with them. So most of my days are spent in the field inspecting thei...
How the ANC youth league reminds me of YK' 92
I have always found it interesting to find parallels in history or event current events in one part of the world and another. In recent months here in South Africa the political talk has revolved around the expulsion from the ruling ANC of the president of the Youth League, one Julius Malema.The historical parallel that this business reminds me of is Kenya in 1992 when with the return of multi-party politics an organisation calling itself Yout...
Relative Values: Our parents always had a problem telling us apart
Fred and Billy Arocho are identical twins. Even though it's very hard to differentiate the two of them, they have nothing in common. Fred is radio presenter and commentator at Radio Jambo. He is quite laid back. On the other hand Billy is an aspiring politician and to be precise an Uhuru Kenyatta die hard. Most of the time Fred has suffered because of Billy's passion for politics to a point of almost loosing his job. Fred and Billy...
Sex Goggles
In case you missed it I write this sex question and answer segment in the Friday Star called Ask Valentine. It has been years now and every so often I have a conversation with a parent who says something along the lines of ‘Valentine, I love your column but I have to hide that page away from my kids.’ Typically I smile and move on with the business at hand or I say ‘Thank you for reading’ and steer the...
The Law allows MRC A Procedural Right to Secede
The categorical pronouncement by the proscribed Mombasa Republican Council (MRC) that Pwani Si Kenya (Coast Province is not part of Kenya) has elicited varied reactions. In the media, some pundits, including lawyer and human rights consultant Neto Agostinho in his piece The government should listen to Coast’s MRC (The Star, April 28-29, 2011), have argued that the MRC has a legal, even constitutional, right to secede because Kenya ...
Kenya Ranked 65th Best Place to be a Mother
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Wet In The Wild
The rains this year began promptly on the 1st of April. In the beginning there were not many flood situations, as the ground was dry and much water was absorbed. However, as the weeks went by, the rains increased, and soon the ground reached saturation point and the excess water began to flow and flood. Roads turned into rivers, and normally dry grasslands became wetlands. And the park started to look more like Nairobi Lakes Nati...
Forget the President; The County Governor is the real deal.
A day in politics is a lifetime in deed. Who would have thought that DPM Musalia Mudavadi would have gone separate ways with his boss and mentor PM Raila Odinga? By the time we go to the ballot, it is entirely possible that we may have a very different political landscape from the one we have at the moment. Although everybody is concerned about who will be the country’s next President, it is your county governor that you sho...
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