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Barely months after you rested, the movement you laboured to build through sacrifice, humiliation, tears and great personal cost stands uncertain and largely unrecognisable.
Beyond the sporadic police crackdowns targeted at PSV drivers after every major crash, there is a need to create awareness among passengers that there is safety in their voices.
It is tempting to conclude that society is biased in favour of women and quick to dismiss men’s issues but this is not entirely true.
Candidates who hope to stay ahead must invest in controlling their narratives by authenticating their communications and engaging the public more in real time.
Law, by design, is rigid. It thrives on structure, predictability and enforcement. Morality on the other hand is fluid and sensitive to context, informed by empathy, compassion and conscience.
The truth is, finding that one thing to be genuinely grateful for is increasingly becoming an impossible hack.
Every scandal involving women is a weapon used to reinforce tired stereotypes that women are weak and poor in decision making.
Ida Odinga’s appointment to UNEP recognises her enduring contributions behind the scenes, not her status as Raila Odinga’s widow.
A reader’s feedback recently piqued my curiosity enough to revisit the story of Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution.
For generations, women have been expected to nurture families, strengthen communities and hold together society’s fabric while navigating systems that were never designed with them in mind.
Long before glass and concrete towers defined its skyline, the Maasai called this place Enkare Nairobi, the place of cool waters.
Such is the nature of shiny things. Sometimes they glare more than they illuminate.
Raila Odinga’s popular DJ, Spider, exemplifies how disc jockeys in Kenya have evolved from mere entertainers to influential voices shaping culture, resistance, and public consciousness.
While the world stretches its reach with brilliance, exploring the unknown and pushing boundaries of possibility, we are evolving backwards into something far more primitive.
Hope is sometimes dangerous. The kind of hope that asks women to endure, to overlook, to ignore counsel, to try again for the promise of what could be.
The attempted political neutralisation of ODM, widely perceived as a hostile takeover by UDA, appears to have achieved only a partial outcome.
Funerals once sacred spaces of grief now turned into political stages, stripping mourning of dignity and respect.
This week, a young woman, Rachel Wandeto Njoki, lost her life while receiving treatment after she was allegedly attacked for bearing a tattoo associated with a politician
We must be willing to examine honestly and without deflection, what is happening in the spaces where our children are being raised.
Peaceful activism is a vital part of a healthy democracy because it allows citizens to hold leaders accountable between elections.
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