Whenever I travel I always try to discover places tourists don’t know about and, to do this, one must understand that the best people to befriend are the local community. This time round we discovered a creek (though to me it seemed more like a lagoon) thanks to a local youngster called Charra. ...Read more
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This is not a question but more of an answer to an unasked question … Read slowly. Kenya is economically poor because we are corrupt. Kenya is still heavily tribalist; tribalism is the mortar that holds together the bricks of corruption. Corruption persists because we allow it; ‘we ...Read more
Okay, yeah I know this is not really a question but I feel it had to be said. Let’s start with why the government claims Kenyan citizens ‘need’ ...Read more
Basic facts on the topic: – 1) Activism in Kenya has atrophied to a career where donor-funding precedes addressing social issues. 2) Most activists are fake (especially prominent ones). 3) Not all activists are fake (mostly those you don’t know). 4) NGOs and donors ...Read more
Kenya is not poor, we’re simply plagued by 2 things – Corruption & Incompetence. The recent hunger crisis is testimony to both. When I was in high school we had a brilliant teacher called Mr. Museve who, in our opinion, was the most intelligent tutor we had. Some o ...Read more
Here are my #SaturdayThoughts on the matter. The biggest obstacle to development in our country is the citizens, specifically, the middle-class/middle-income working class. As Saul D.Alinsky puts it in his book ‘Rules for Radicals’, they are the ‘have-a-little-want ...Read more
During the times that I travel to other countries I notice many things; one of the small things I notice is that, in most of these countries, there are no security guards with metal detectors at the entrance of public spaces. Many of these are ‘developed’ ...Read more
Today when returning home from a meeting I found a crowd gathered on the street. On closer investigation, I saw a man with a swollen bloody face being pushed around. He was bleeding. One man, in a tattered white hat said, “Usimchape, si vizuri, tumpeleke station [let’s not beat him ...Read more
Sometime back I was sitting with some friends and began talking about a celebrity athlete who has been living a flashy lifestyle. One of my friends asked, “He seems to have all the money, but does he even have children?” What later emerged is that indeed he does have but the point here was that ...Read more
My major reservation with the 8-4-4 system in Kenya is that it nurtures and extols only one type of excellence – academic. Do not get me wrong, this is a much needed function in society. However, we need musicians, athletes, carpenters, masons, cooks and so on as much as we need doc ...Read more