L. Muthoni Wanyeki

On 14 May 2013, ‘Occupy Parliament: an uprising against collective greed of Kenyan members of parliament’ took place.

On 14 May 2013, ‘Occupy Parliament: an uprising against collective greed of Kenyan members of parliament’ took place.

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Nobody could quite believe the evidence of their eyes. Was that really Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir? Surely not. Not on this day, our day. And if it was, obviously he would be arrested.

This is it! Finally, after protracted struggles dating back at least two decades (if not more) Kenya has a new constitution.

Kenyans voted in high numbers with a turnout of just over 70 per cent of all registered voters to say yes to a new constitution

So the World Cup is finally over – the memory of the final game now forever linked with East Africa with the grisly bombings in Uganda that resulted in 76 deaths.

Our hearts go out to the families of those murdered and injured in the bombings.

Amnesty International released a chilling report last week on crime and insecurity in Nairobi’s low-income areas.

The grenade attacks at the Sunday prayer-cum-‘No’ meeting in Nairobi’s Uhuru Park have dominated the news all week.

Every now and then, something jolts us out of our workaday parochialism. Last week, I was in Kano in northern Nigeria. I visited the Gide Mamakan, the museum just opposite the Emir’s palace.

Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza are two Malawians who happen to be gay. The Malawian criminal code, like those in most former British colonies, does not outright criminalise being gay.