HISTORICAL INPUTS INTO ZANZIBAR’s REVOLUTION OF JANUARY 1964.
Earlier month, precisely on 12th January 2022; Zanzibar proudly marked its 58th anniversary of the January 1964 revolution, which overthrew Sultan Jamshid Abdullah’s...
View ArticleMudavadi’s mystery earthquake
From left: Ford Kenya leader Moses Wetang’ula, Deputy President William Ruto, ANC boss Musalia Mudavadi and Jibebe’s William Kabogo at Bomas of Kenya on January 23, 2022 during ANC's ADC.Evans Habil |...
View ArticleTHE BACKGROUND TO CCM’s 45th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS.
“Chama cha Mapinduzi chajenga nchi . . .” (the signature tune, or “theme music” of the ruling party, Chama cha Mapinduzi); which will proudly celebrate its 45th birthday...
View ArticleMheshiwa Rais uwe mkali kuzuia jinai hii ya mauaji
Mheshimiwa Rais, nakusalimia, kama kawaida, kwa jina la Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania. Najua utajibu hata kama ni kimoyomoyo kwa furaha salamu hii adhimu uliyoianzisha na kuishikilia bila kuchoka kwa...
View ArticleBarua kwa Dk Tulia Ackson: Hongera na Pole
Mheshimiwa Daktari Tulia Ackson, Naibu Spika na Spika mtarajiwa,Nakusalimia kwa jina la Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania. Sema, kazi iendelee.Nakuandikia kwa mara ya kwanza kukupongeza na kukupa pole...
View ArticleLetter to Museveni we need strong institutions not strong armies
Dear President Museveni, this isn’t the first or the last time I touch base with you through this media. Today I’ll go straight to the point. You’re recently quoted as saying that “Africa shouldn’t...
View ArticleMORE ON THE AFTERMATH OF FORMER SPEAKER NDUGAI’’s RESIGNATION : MBATIA’s...
There is a Latin phrase that says : “Reductio ad absurdum”; which simply mean “reducing an argument to the level of absurdity”; i.e. to something completely ridiculous, which is...
View ArticleA season of hope – and fear
President Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto display winners' certificates at the Bomas of Kenya on October 30, 2017 after IEBC declared the presidential election results. A close...
View ArticleKenya Presidential Race: How and Where Ruto Goofed on Kenyatta
No doubt. Kenya’s Deputy President, William Ruto is in a political limbo if not hot soup. If we can make sense of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s open avowal to back his archnemesis, former PM Raila Odinga...
View ArticleTHE UNSUNG SPEAKER’s BURDENS: HIS/HER ROLE AS PARLIAMENT’s SPOKESPERSON
The events pertaining to former Speaker Job Ndugai’s resignation, and the process leading to Speaker Tulia Ackson’s election to that position; were altogether an entirely new experience to...
View ArticleKenya’s reset moment beckons
By Makau MutuaProfessor at SUNY Buffalo Law School and Chair of the KHRC.What you need to know:A state can’t be better than its people and their leaders.It’s never...
View ArticleMIAKA TISA TANGU KUFARIKI RAFIKI YANGU JOHN WANDIBA KIJANA WA MJINI NA BAUNSA...
Hayati John Wandiba akiwa na Yvonne Chakachaka alipotembelea Tanzania enzi zile. Wangapi wanamkumbuka njemba huyu machachari? Nadhani akina Santana bado wanadunda. RIP JOHN
View ArticleFURTHER REFLECTIONS ON CCM’s 45th BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY.
CCM’s annual celebrations of its birthday anniversary on February 5th of every year , has always been the greatest political event of that month. This was also the...
View ArticleLetter to Kakwenza Rukirabashaija
Bwana Mdogo Kakwenza,I’m happy that, at last, you left the gaol you’re wantonly confined to, tortured, battered and humiliated. I thank Lord that they tortured your body but not your spirit. I thank...
View ArticleCry my beloved Kenya Airways
A Kenya Airways plane at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on February 18, 2021. Lucy Wanjiru | Nation Media Group Makau MutuaProfessor at SUNY Buffalo Law...
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