I read an article ‘Why does Kenya lead the world in mobile money?’ from the economist and felt so proud of being Kenyan. After 50 years of independence, look at where we are now.

Mobile money technology has brought Kenya a worldwide recognition. Apart from the norm Kenya being a tourist site with beautiful beaches and wild animal, there is now...

For over 15 years particularly since the US Bombing in Nairobi,  Kenya has been closely placed in candidacy for a failing Nation. Indeed it is like New York 911 was a child play. The negative Kenya forecasting however has left those prophets of doom embarrassed. In March this year, investors who had sent journalists to Nairobi for international...

I am a Kenyan returning to Kenya after living in Germany for 13 years. I bought my car in the UK but since I was to have owned the car for one year I left it behind. I have now sent it to Kenya only to discover that I shouldn’t have been in Kenya longer than 90 days to import it duty-free. Now that I’m in Kenya and I have stayed longer than 90 days and...

As the curtain falls on the 2nd national conference on alcohol and drug abuse in Kenya that was presided over by President Uhuru Kenyatta, many Kenyans are concerned. Drug trafficking has hit a crisis level. Yet as he opened the conference Mr. Uhuru ordered deportation of foreigners suspected to be involved in drug trafficking. Although Uhuru advised...

It was wrong to rollback MPs's salaries. Salaries are never rolled back. This  is just the law of economics. People, including Members of Parliament, apply  for jobs and make budgets based on the salary offered. Therefore, to deal  with difficult economic times, increment in salaries and employment are  frozen for a period of time...

The conversation at the dinner tables, places of work and other social gatherings within the Kenyan community in the US this week has predominantly been about Sunday’s brutal murder of a Kenyan girl in the State of Indiana by her own father.

An on-line war of words and personality clash erupted recently between groups and individuals purporting to be representatives of Kenyans living in diaspora. The imbroglio was sparked by Kenyan media report which claimed a group of individuals had developed a document of sort explaining how the Kenyan government should engage and harness the potential of...

Oh yes here we go again. I am afraid to say that the most non-transparent  US President of all time is the darling of some of my Kenyan brothers and   sisters; our son Barack or is it Baraka? Must I remind you that we are just   getting started? Cans of worms are normally opened after the presidency. The term is not over yet. The...

Permit me to write to you this letter on behalf of Kenya’s 48th county - the diaspora. Ours is the only Kenyan “county” that lacks a governor, senator, or members of Parliament that can protect its interests.

This is in spite of our significant contribution to Kenya’s economy and our rivalling the Kamba as Kenya’s fifth largest “ethnic” group...

Sometimes when I hear about the things some Kenyans do, I actually wonder if we come from the same country but then again when we have people who have caused more than five thousand deaths since they joined politics aiming to lead the country then I realize these mad people aren’t in such bad company.

Hata baada ya walipa kodi kuwalipa mahakimu wote wa Mahakama Kuu mishahara minono minono, kuwanunulia magari ghali yatikisayo barabara aina ya Mercedes msururu wa S, marupurupu ya kutamaniwa, sasa tena wanavyovironja vingine: wanunuliwe ndege, tena ya shillingi millioni mia tatu. Kisa na maana! Waweze kuzifikia sehemu zilizo mbali. Kisa na maana! Sehemu...

We, the Kenyan people have a reason to be concerned. Insecurity is skyrocketing in our motherland at a tremendous speed. Unfortunately, Inspector General of Police Mr. David Kimaiyo and the chairman of the National Police Service Commission (NPSC), Mr. Johnstone Kavuludi, are embroiled in personality clash and power struggles-in itself, a threat to our...

Early this week, Monday to be exact, on my way back to the US from Kenya, I met Kenya’s Chief Justice, Dr Willy Mutunga at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam. The CJ was making his way back home from some official engagement in New York. During the brief encounter, Dr Mutunga, having been away from home for some time, as expected wanted to know how the...

Give credit where it is due. One great bold move by our Pres. Uhuru Kenyatta. Scrapping of Provincial Administrations - the likes of PC, DC, DO was long overdue. This goes to show how much the President is really committed to Implementation of the new Constitution.

The public are oblivious of the source of turf wars between the parliament and the senate. On the surface it appears like a jostling for position, about which house should be considered the upper house or lower house. Never mind the houses are not co located in case you are thinking of something like an annex building.

The biggest problem for...

Pengine Wabunge tuwapendao kuwachukia hawajapata fursa ya kuitafsiri Katiba yetu mpya ipasavyo. Ninachokijua mimi ni kwamba ibara kwenye Katiba inayogusia na kuelezea jukumu la Tume ya Mishahara nchini inaeleweka wazi hata na Mkenya wa kawaida, kule mashinani.

Call me naive, call me anti-establishment, call me propagandist, or better yet an anti-reformist but I surely know for a fact that Kenya did NOT need to have two houses in Parliament.

The role and powers of the Senate as provided for in Article 96 of the constitution in my humble opinion (Yes just an opinion) should be transferred to the...

The Administration and national security committee and Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), two institutions founded by the Kenyan government- unveiled a damning report explaining why former secretary to the cabinet and head of civil service Mr. Francis Kimemia should not be confirmed by the parliament to become the secretary to the cabinet in...

How can one be trusted to dispense or build avenues for justice in a society when they are accused of violating the same justice? This critical question lingers in the minds of many Kenyans following last week’s release of the Truth and Justice Reconciliation Commission’s Report (TJRC), led by former Ambassador Bethuel Kiplagat.

Redressing old...

Early this month, about 100,000 people from around the world were chosen from several millions to get a head-start on a US lottery program commonly known as the ‘ Green Card’, in what could be the last such annual lottery, expected to be abolished under proposed new immigration reforms.

Kenyan justice system thrived on two sets of laws-Laws for the Hoi-polloi-majority of Kenyans and laws for the rich-politically connected Kenyans. The Hoi-Polloi comprising of the poor, blue-color, hard-working, ordinary Kenyans were and to a larger extend still are disadvantaged. Our judicial system unleashes laws against the poor and ordinary folk to...

Tunaipongeza ripoti iliotolewa siku chache zilizopita na Tume ya Ukweli, Haki na Maridhiano inayoongozwa na Mwanyekiti wake Bw Hosea Kiplagat. Ripoti hio iliozusha mtafaruku nchini hasa  kutoka kwa vigogo ambao walidhania vitendo vya dhuluma walivyowatendea Wakenya katika nyakati tofauti tangu uhuru vilisahaulika, sasa tena zimeanza kuwatafuna...

The TJRC has finally submitted its report detailing the past injustices committed by Kenyans against fellow Kenyans. The accusations range from land grabbing, torture, to murder and assassinations in extreme cases. Some of the highlights in the report are high profile cases affecting Kenyans and powerful people in the former and present government....

The diaspora experience has long been "America's Story." As Russell Shorto's book, The Island at the Center of the World, details, seventeenth-century Manhattan was a microcosm of the much larger American diaspora to follow: Among the island's then-400 inhabitants, 18 different languages were spoken. Centuries later, this description not only...

Ambassador Bethuel Kiplagat and your TJRC team, congratulations for coming up with a report so courageous, one that did not spare even the President or His Deputy of the Republic of Kenya. Ten years ago and before, such a report would have been confiscated and you personally and your team silenced forever. We join you Kenyans, we in Diaspora in...

Kenyans living abroad have increasingly become integral in the country’s development. With estimated 3 million of them in the Diaspora, this is of course a huge resource for both Kenya and the host countries. His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta has already made reference to the Diaspora three times in his six weeks in office. First in his inaugural speech to...

The white house released president Obama’s itinerary for his visit to African countries. Surprisingly, Kenya, the land of president Obama’s father was “black-listed.” Most Kenyans anticipated throwing a home-coming party of a life-time for “their son” following his second term win. Unfortunately, that will not happen. Obama will snub Kenya. The white...