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Our new governors must rethink public health system to serve all
Recent global concerns with a new COVID-19 variant, new county health reforms thinking and the calling off a national health-workers...
Jan 14, 20233 min read


Time to disrupt the normalisation of prejudice and pain in all our spaces
Gay rights activist Edwin Chiloba has been brutally murdered. Our opinions will filter his death as a hate-crime, grim murder or another...
Jan 7, 20233 min read


How did Kenya measure up against the Constitution in 2022?
As the sun set for the last time on 2022, 56 million Kenyans, 47 + 1 governments received their report card. How did the 59-year-old...
Jan 1, 20233 min read


Beyond dust-storm of opinions on police reforms, we must get it right
Incoming Inspector General Japeth Koome whipped up his first dust storm. His and other public comments may indicate the possible...
Dec 24, 20223 min read


Let's serious with public safety, law and order
Today marks 74 years since the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights was adopted. The enduring lesson for us all is, when one...
Dec 10, 20223 min read


Let's interrupt gender violence and narratives that support it
The world is midway through the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence. The recent conviction of Moses Gatama Njoroge provides...
Dec 6, 20223 min read


CBC task-force must address state of disability rights in schools
With the 49-member Presidential Working Party on Education Reform completing its public consultations this month, it is time to look at...
Nov 20, 20223 min read


What difference could new Police Inspector General Japhet Koome make?
The fourth Police Inspector General of Kenya was sworn yesterday. As Japhet Koome assumes office, what might he find in his in-tray and...
Nov 12, 20223 min read


Weak oversight not a "few rogue officers" feeds police impunity
Suspected enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings of foreign nationals over the last month has burst one of Kenya’s worst...
Oct 31, 20223 min read


Cabinet Secretaries must come with new and consistent policy options
Tomorrow is World Food Day. With 4.2 million Kenyans facing acute food insecurity and 24 drought-stricken counties there is very little...
Oct 17, 20223 min read


Legal literacy will decongest police stations and prisons
Next year marks the 50th anniversary of legal aid in Kenya. As the Interior Ministry and the Office of the Attorney General reinvent...
Oct 9, 20223 min read


The context just shifted, we must also
Anti-slavery campaigner Fredrick Douglas reminds us power concedes nothing in the absence of organised public demand by those most...
Sep 17, 20222 min read
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