Reuters photo By Joe Khamisi In the early seventies, Foreign Affairs Minister Dr. Njoroge Mungai, was asked by his Dagoretti South constituents what he had done for them to deserve re-election as their Member of Parliament.
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Kenyans dont eat tar or gobble megawatts
March 31st, 2017 
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Tags: 2017 Kenyan election, Election, Joe Khamisi, Jomo Kenyatta, Jubilee government, Kenya, Njoroge Mungai, Opinion, Politics, Society, Uhuru Kenyatta 
No Comments »Relax, President Uhuru Kenyatta, relax!
March 17th, 2017 Administrator Reuters photo By Joe Khamisi The Founding President Jomo Kenyatta did it, so did Mwai Kibaki. Now, Uhuru Kenyatta is doing it.
Mess with these two Kenyan icons at your own peril
March 3rd, 2017 Administrator PSCU photo By Joe Khamisi If there are two people Kenyan politicians must not mess with, it is the former President Daniel Arap Moi, and Mama Ngina, wife of founding father Jomo Kenyatta and mother of incumbent President Uhuru.
Posted in OPINION Tags: 2017 Kenya election, Anne Waiguru, Charity Ngilu, Chris Murungaru, Cyrus Jirongo, Daniel Arap Moi, G. G. Kariuki, Gideon Moi, Joe Khamisi, Jomo Kenyatta, Jubilee government, Kalonzo Musyoka, KANU, Kenya, Kipruto Kirwa, Koigi wa Wamwere, Mama Ngina, Martha Karua, Moody Awori, MPs, Mwai Kibaki, NARC, Ngina Kenyatta, Opinion, Paul Muite, Politics, Raila Odinga, Simeon Nyachae, Uhuru Kenyatta, William Ruto No Comments »No Raila, on this one, you are off the mark
February 24th, 2017 Administrator Khalil Senosi/AP By Joe Khamisi In the heat of the American presidential campaign last year Donald Trump threatened to jail his opponent Hillary Clinton if he became president. He accused her of endangering national security through “careless” handling of official e-mails while she was Secretary of State.
Posted in OPINION Tags: 2017 Kenyan election, Corruption, Daniel Arap Moi, extra-judicial killings, Hillary Clinton, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Joe Khamisi, Jomo Kenyatta, Jubilee government, Kenya, National Super Alliance, Ndungu Land Commission, Opinion, political assassinations, Politics, Raila Odinga, Trump, Uhuru Kenyatta No Comments »The Tragic Conventions In African Plays
October 6th, 2016 Administrator Patrick Willocq By Shola Balogun The traditional Africa is undoubtedly communal. The passivity and conformity of the African under a compelling authority can be explained in accordance with his affirmation of self-will and perception of collective spirit. His penchant for honour is far more intricate and demonstrably cultural.
Posted in OPINION Tags: Africa, African society, Arnold Joseph Toynbee, Bill Freund, Biodun Jeyifo, Busuyi E. Mekusi, Charles Binam Bikoi, Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Claude Levi-Strauss, Colin Falck, Community, convention, Culture, Dan Sperber, Daniel Defoe, death, Egyptian Book of the Dead, Elesin Oba, Ernst Mayr, Geoffrey Parrinder, Hamlet, Hazard Adams, Howard Gardner, I.A. Menkiti, ideology, Igbo, John Iliffe, Jomo Kenyatta, Joseph Conrad, Kuranko, Leopold Sedar Senghor, metaphysical, Ogun, philosophy, plays, religion, Reuben Adeleye Abati, Robert Farris Thompson, Shakespeare, Shola Balogun, Swami Rama, To be or not to be, Tragedy, Wole Soyinka, Yoruba No Comments »Do you want to be famous in Kenya? Just break the law
December 19th, 2014 Administrator By Joe Khamisi When Paul Ngei emerged from detention as a free man in 1961 along with Jomo Kenyatta, Kungu Karumba, Fred Kubai, Achieng Oneko, and Bildad Kaggia, he proudly spotted a hat with a makeshift sign that carried the initial P.G. Those initials, Ngei explained, stood for “Prison Graduate.”
Posted in OPINION Tags: Achieng Oneko, Barack Obama Senior, Bildad Kaggia, break the law in Kenya, Corruption, Daniel Arap Moi, Dash Before Dusk, democracy, Fred Kubai, International Criminal Court, Joe Khamisi, Jomo Kenyatta, Kapenguria Six, Kenya, Kenya African National Union (KANU), Kenyan politics, Kungu Karumba, National Development Party, Paul Ngei, Politics of Betrayal:Diary of a Kenyan Legislator, Prison Graduate, Raila Odinga, second liberation, Tuck Magazine, Uhuru Kenyatta, William Ruto No Comments »THE KENYAN OPPOSITION AND THE MIGORI DEBACLE
September 14th, 2014 Administrator By Joe Khamisi If what took place in Migori last week had happened during the times of Jomo Kenyatta or Daniel arap Moi, Kenyans would still be counting bodies days after the nearly catastrophic event in Nyanza, the perceived stronghold of opposition leader Raila Odinga.
