- After Kenya’s junior athletics team outdid super powers, the hometown will be hosting the continental championships. Africa’s athletics championships are set to kick off tomorrow at the Nyayo National stadium in Nairobi. There are huge expectations on the home team to show its prowess on home soil. Kenyans are hopeful that the home team will emerge best in the competitions. “Kenya has always been a giant in athletics and we are hopeful to cheer our country to glory,’” said Kamau Kimani a resident of Nairobi. On their part the athletes are glad that the competitions are in Kenya and they have the chance to perform on home soil. In the previous edi…

- Kenya's parliamentarians are the human embodiment of the dinosaur. In its days on earth, the dinosaur roamed the planet like a savage eating whatever came its way. The existence of the human species remained threatened by the existence of that savage. Scientists claim that the last of those savages walked on earth 60 million years ago. If any of those scientists visited Nairobi, Kenya, they would rewrite science. Like the savagery dinosaur, Kenyan parliamentarians roam the tax man's pocket like a savage eating whatever is there. In a country where tax payers live in makeshifts, in slums and ghettos, those who pay not a coin in tax walk shoulders high boasting of their heft pa…

- As Congo DRC celebrates 50yrs jubilee, the brutal assassination of Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba still haunts the Nation. Stability and peace remains in fiction in the vast Central African country and the question of who killed him is yet to be answered. In Eastern Congo for example it’s said to be a curse to be a woman. In the days before and just after independence, Congo was one of the hopes of the African Continent. Its vast mineral resources portended a bright future for the nation and its citizens. The eloquent young Lumumba was seen as the Abraham Lincoln of the Congo. The reality surrounding his brutal murder remains at large but its effects are well visible. Since his as…

- The region about the horn of Africa has been a plague to both man and beast. For the past years the regions of northern Kenya and the Turkana has been a death valley owing to the drought that has prevailed in the area for the last 2 years. Over 10 million people faced imminent starvation in the area and the efforts by the government of Kenya to arrest the situation proved futile. Armed militia roam the region in broad daylight. Residents have been forced to guarantee their own security as government mechanisms aren’t felt. Residents of this volatile region are opposed to the ongoing government operations to acquire illegal arms from the residents, saying that their disarmament…

- After weeks of wrangling and pressure from the civil society Truth Justice and reconcilitiation vice chair Betty Murungi has resigned. In her address to the chairperson Bethwel Kiplagat and other commissiners she said," im unable to continue given the public position I have expressed with regards to matters facing the Commission’s Chair." a statement from the commission states that Ms Murungi is out of the country but had written to the chaiirman Bethwel Kiplagat to notify him of the resignation. The commission comunication consultant openda Mvati stamped the resignation but said she will continue to serve as a commissioner. The resignation comes just a day after Ms Mu…

- The effects of climatic change haven’t spared another of Africa’s rooftops. During the great period of exploration and discoveries Africa was often called the Dark Continent. Dark referred to the unknown nature of so much of the interior. Darkest Africa is in truth a land of light, a country whose character is delineated by the sun and by sparkling course of mighty rivers and mountains. Over the centuries they have molded the shape of Africa. Rising 5199m Mt Kenya, Africa’s second rooftop is loosing its ice cap. Located 150kms north east of Nairobi, just slightly south of the equator, Mt Kenya is a source of life to its vicinity. In 1849, German explorer Johan…

- Its sarcartic how kenya is run. I call it a company where they are out to make profits.Kenyans were so happy to juck the old folks out of the legislature to bring in a new breed called the youth in the 2007 elections. To me a thief is a thief no matter the age.Kenyan legislatures arent worth the name thieves coz they are more than that.The dream of a developed nation is all lost despite the clamour for change in the last election. History is going to judge the 10th parliament as the most corrupt and full of Judases that have betrayed the voter confidence.most kenyans forgo a lot of cash to pay taxes to fill the berries of this thugs. At least we cant condemn all legislature's beca…

- Zain one of the largest mobile operators in Africa is hosting the fourth season of Zain Africa Challenge. An inter-university battle of brains. These year the competition brings together 100 University's from E ast Africa, West Africa and Southern Africa. "Zain Africa Challenge is a powerful testimony of the company’s commitment to the advancement of youth talent through its support for education as well as its social and community initiatives. This is what our ‘wonderful world’ of Zain is all about,” said Chris Gabriel, Zain CEO Africa. Univerities across Africa competed fot the Zain scholars trophy ans a share of over $1,000,000 USD in grants an…

- It has been revealed that a terrorist who escaped police custody in Kenya's Busia town is a wanted man in Sydney. Mr Hussein Hahshi Farah is wanted for Sydney's Holsworthy Army base in sometime in august last year. Mr Farah was profiled as a senior oficial in the Al shabaab command in Somalia. “We have established he is a wanted man, he has been on the run for a while now, and had tried severally to access Kenya through the borders in North Eastern and Eastern Provinces,” our sources said. Some four other terror suspect believed to have been Farah’s accomplice were charged with planning suicide attacks on Sydney’s Holsworthy Army Base in August…

- Rising cases of top down sexual relationships continue to rake havoc in Kenya’s education and job sectors of the economy. Recent cases by female students willingly and unwillingly engaging in sexual affairs with their lecturers and potential employers has led to the decline in moral standards in the country. In the education sector, the vice has spilled into many institutions of higher learning and is threatening their visions of being centres of academic excellence. Nancy Cherono (not her real names) narrates how she was forced by circumstances to engage in the vice to acquire what she terms as sexually transmitted grades (STGs) in a bid to secure her chances of graduation at the…

- Former UN secretary General who helped broker a peace deal in 2008 is in Kenya. Annan who under the call of the African Union helped solve a political crisis, is expected to meet the country's top leaders. Annan held a meeting in the morning with Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga and is currently holding a meeting with house speaker Kenneth Marende. The agenda of the meetings will be to check the progress of the coalition government, and the reform agenda especially the constitution making process. In his meeting with the Premier Dr Annan urged all kenyans above 18 years to register as voters and participate in the expected referendum. "The referendum is lik…

- Who will rule the plain of Africa after the King is dead? There was a time when man was only a visitor in the African savannah. The plain outdid the entire world in the tranquillity of its beauty. Under the eyes of God and the sun the plain was devoid of any enemy and power was in the hands of the lion. But the visitor has now risen against the realm and introduced hegemony on the plain. In 20 years the lion that has come to be known as the King of the wild might become extinct if not protected. For centuries the lion has ruled the plains of Africa and the jungles of Asia. The lion has been immortalised as the king of the African jungle both in the real world and in fiction. A…