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The closest polls in Kenyan history?
This week saw the closest electoral race in Kenyan history. Avoiding broken nails, rising blood pressure and future post-electoral stress...
Aug 12, 20223 min read


Time to exercise our right to vote
Like Commonwealth gold winner Ferdinand Omanyala, the sprint of 16,100 candidates comes to an end today. How have the political campaigns...
Aug 7, 20223 min read


Digital democracies require fidelity to the truth
With elections related malicious content spiking on social media and a new Council for Responsible Social Media launched this week,...
Jul 30, 20223 min read


Why all must attend 2022 presidential debates
It has been over a century since the first elections were held under British colonial rule. Seven decades later in July 1990, George...
Jul 30, 20224 min read


How do the party manifestos compare?
Five months ago, this column lamented the absence of a big galvanising idea in the campaigns. With at least five manifestos launched in...
Jul 10, 20223 min read


Let's go beyond 5-minute democracies
By Irũngũ Houghton and Daniel Nyakora Like meals, five-minute democracies have their limitations. We knew this when we voted for Article...
Jul 1, 20223 min read


Without public participation, budget transparency and oversight nothing will work post-election
The Kenya Budget Transparency Survey 2021 comes at just the right time. With elections debates in high gear, it educates voters trying to...
Jun 25, 20223 min read


Will TikTok turn our elections into a war dance?
At the risk of confusing my more mainstream readers, we must talk about TikTok. No, not the clock, but social media’s latest entrant and...
Jun 11, 20223 min read


Break the impunity cycle of violence against journalists
We can measure the openness of societies by the way our journalists are treated. As the world approaches World Press Freedom Day on May...
Apr 23, 20223 min read


Place Jua Kali workers at the center of election manifestos
Ten years ago, I listened to a jua kali car mechanic displaced from the path of a new ring road by my home. A decade on, the nation has...
Mar 26, 20223 min read


Why Kenyans need NGOs and civil society ahead of elections
Policy sound-bites bullet point campaign billboards and boom from the sunroofs of SUVs. However, as John Githongo notes, these elections...
Mar 20, 20223 min read


Digital democracy or algorithmic authoritarianism, choose.
A Ukraine related twitter spike and UDA presidential aspirant claims that the August elections could be rigged alerts us there is a fine...
Mar 5, 20223 min read
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