BWIRE: Men involvement in campaign FGM vital

By Guest Writer,

By Victor Bwire Efforts against some traditional harmful practices in Kenya including female genital mutilation (FGM) require not only the politica...

FGM

OPINION: Why we must handle teen pregnancy as a gender justice issue

By Guest Writer,

By Ngare Kariuki It is a gross injustice that many girls will not report back to school because they got pregnant during the COVID-19 lockdown. ...

coronavirus , teen pregnancy

OPINION: Women facing domestic violence during COVID-19 need access to safety now more than ever

By Guest Writer,

By Christine Ogutu and Wangu Kanja “My husband beat me up and threw me out into the streets in the wee hours of the night with my two children,�...

coronavirus , domestic violence , GBV

RAILA: Public good and integrity missing in revenue sharing standoff

By Guest Writer,

The events surrounding the arrest of senators yesterday (Monday), just like the acrimonious stalemate that has seen the Senate disagree a record nine ...

lelegwe , malala , raila odinga , Revenue Sharing

BWIRE: Health Commission to cure sector challenges

By Guest Writer,

By Victor Bwire I am writing this letter addressed to you Hon. Mutahi Kagwe, the Cabinet Secretary for Health acknowledging the commitment, focus a...

Health Commission , ministry of health

OPINION: Politics of data and everything in between

By Citizen,

Let’s talk data. I have found out that when most of us hear the word ‘data’ our thoughts automatically go to numbers and how boring it is to sit...

census , femnet , SDG

OPINION: Proportional Representation way to go for a truly representative Parliament

By Citizen Reporter,

By Michael Cherambos Since the creation of representative democracy, many thinkers, philosophers and statesmen have tinkered with the idea of how b...

BWIRE: Kenya’s indigenous people still being marginalised

By Victor Bwire,

By Victor Bwire Clearly, even with constitutional protection and legal recognition, the situation of indigenous people’s communities in Kenya has...

Bajunis , Endorois , Nyangoris , Ogiek , Samias , Sengwer

BWIRE: Rampant greed eating away at the very fabric of Kenya

By Victor Bwire,

By Victor Bwire “We killed our past and are busy killing our future” as captured in betrayal in the city seems a fair depiction of what is happ...

2022 elections

BWIRE: Solar energy is the option to lighting Kenya

By Victor Bwire,

By Victor Bwire Players in the solar energy sector are raising challenges in the industry that government needs to relook as a matter of priority. ...

BWIRE: Nairobi Media Summit should focus on accountability

By Victor Bwire,

By Victor Bwire Uncertain future, shattered careers, tensed and worried families, frozen bank accounts, isolated formerly highly connected individu...

Media Summit

BWIRE: How the culture of greed is eroding gains in Kenya

By Victor Bwire,

By Victor Bwire Kenya’s political scene has as always expected taken its shape; ugly, manipulative, dirty, sectarian and disruptive, frustrating ...

2022 elections

OPINION: The desperate path a young Kenyan lawyer treads

By Citizen Reporter,

By Omondi Were At the beginning of February, the Council of Legal Education released results for the 2018 cohort of students who had done the bar e...

Council of Legal Education , Dr. Jakob Gakeri , Kenya School of Law , Kenyan lawyer , LAW SOCIETY OF KENYA , University of Nairobi.

BWIRE: Ongoing Editors Convention a breath of fresh air

By Victor Bwire,

Media in Kenya as in the rest of the world is grappling with professional challenges as a result of the dwindling audiences and revenue, technological...

Annual Editors Convention , Editors Guild , Media freedom

OPINION: Parents to blame for university girls leading secret lives

By Citizen,

The killing of university students (ladies in particular) in Kenya is becoming a common occurrence that is no longer raising many eyebrows. Also Re...

Migori

WANJURAH: Can’t hold no more buddy…it’s gonna be smelly here.

By Jeeh Wanjura,

When our eyes met briefly, I thought I recognised him as the lead soloist of the in-house band at the local pub. But I couldn’t be so sure. The loca...

Jeeh Wanjurah , smelly

MAISH: My night with the chips funga from hell

By Mark Maina,

It’s one of those Fridays you feel quite lost. You have watched all movies on your computer and your girlfriend-well she hasn’t been talking to yo...

Whiskey stirs Adrian’s unknown other

By Jeeh Wanjura,

Adrian’s excitement was so delirious that by the time the game was over there were over 20 pictures to my WhatsApp account. Many were more or les...

Jeeh Wanjurah , Whiskey

WANJURA: Could So Many Be So Wrong In Believing In Witchcraft?

By Jeeh Wanjura,

According to one of the many versions of the story, the Lutheran pastor was sleeping besides his wife when he heard sneaky steps in the house. Thei...

africa , witchcraft , witches

Why dormitories are not for grown-ups

By Jeeh Wanjura,

It was one of those nights when the mind drifts in and out of sleep that ends up in a morning of incessant yawning and a yearning for the next night. ...

Bro Ocholla , dormitories , Jeeh Wanjura , London.