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...
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- Jul 30, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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 23, 2022
- 3 min
Incoming regime must step up and halt extra-judicial killings
The recent brutal killings of seven Nakuru women horrified the nation. Within weeks, police had arrested over a hundred youth and are now...
- Jul 17, 2022
- 3 min
Carry the Jubilee scorecard into the polling booth on 9 August
Coming days after the establishment of a Transition Committee overseeing the handover of power by August 23, the 76-page Jubilee...
- Jul 10, 2022
- 3 min
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 1, 2022
- 3 min
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...
- Jun 25, 2022
- 3 min
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 17, 2022
- 3 min
Kenyans want the death penalty abolished
By Irũngũ Houghton and Maurice Oginga It’s been thirty-five years since the Kenyan state legally executed anyone for a capital offence...
- Jun 11, 2022
- 3 min
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 4, 2022
- 3 min
Not personal, bar tainted aspirants
Last week’s opinion calling for the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission and the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission to bar...
- May 27, 2022
- 3 min
It's time to red card questionable aspirants again
The 2003 remake of “The Italian Job” was one of my favourite films of all time. That is, until I started paying attention to the nexus...
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