Arts
The Clairvoyant
Perhaps the one aspiration all parties bar the Greens hold is to try to engineer some growth into the economy. Most of the blame attaches to the Treasury but the country seems unable to accomplish [more…]
Law
Animals
A View From (The Little Plot Just By) The Greenhouse; The Manipulation Of “Britishness”
Since my last missive the weather’s taken a bit of a turn for the worse, but then it is summer in England. Some of the plants, as is the way with nature, are grateful for [more…]
Democracy
An Alliance of Arrogance
“I was in Alliance” is a euphemism for the hollow ethos of a certain “old school” elite that is totally disconnected from everyday Kenyan society. May 13, 2026 In April of 1963, with Kenya in [more…]
Authoritarianism
Social Justice Centres
The separation of the June 2024 protests from the long history of organising within Social Justice Centres erases the intellectual labour of movement building and organising, and the infrastructure that these centres have built over [more…]
20th Century
Kenya’s Austerity Loop
For the second time, Kenya has pressed its palms against the cold marble of the IMF and the World Bank, asking the same architects of global austerity to diagnose wounds we have spent time inflicting [more…]
Authoritarianism
So, Who is a Terrorist in Kenya?
The status quo in a country can be the past, the present, and the future. So is the resistance to the status quo. Indeed, this is the essence of the revolutionary clarion call; the struggle [more…]
Democracy
Isolated WSR Snout in Trough
Since the new year WSR, wanting total control of the IEBC (in ensuring Presidential results are announced first), saw the IEBC register 5M IDP Voters in a week in the Northern Kenya Refugee Camps Kakuma [more…]
Democracy
A Deep Dive, Part Two
Under the Presidential Spotlight: Recent Scandals Since taking office, WSR’s administration has been accused of overseeing massive graft, with over 25,000 corruption cases dropped – many involving his allies – while ignoring judicial directives on [more…]
Arts
The Surprising Life of Betty Meynard
Elisabeth “Betty” Maxwell (née Meynard) Elisabeth Jenny Jeanne Meynard was born on March 11, 1921, in Saint-Alban-de-Roche, France, to a Huguenot family. Her father, Paul Meynard, was a silk merchant and local mayor, while her [more…]