Kenya

Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, the countries most affected by the outbreak of Ebola virus are geographically far from Kenya, but to the countries we depend on for tourists, Ebola is in Africa and so is Kenya.

My name is Audrey Mbugua.

I was born thirty years ago in Kenya and assigned the male gender. After birth, I was named Andrew Mbugua. I was then named Eddy, though the name Eddy was never entered into my official documents.

Last Sunday Ali Mazrui, the greatest scholar Kenya has produced, was buried in Mombasa. He died in the US, which became his home after he was effectively exiled from Kenya by the government in the early seventies.

Breathe me clear
Breathe me safe
Breathe me home

–Shailja Patel, Screaming

Can a new constitution transform a society from its history of oppression, injustice, corruption and the marginalisation of the politically weak into one where the rule of law and social justice reign supreme?

Kenyans learned a very expensive lesson the other week: that the President is like the Titanic, very difficult to turn around. Or, to put it more accurately, that eating presidential humble pie can be a costly national exercise.

On Tuesday, September 23, the residents of Twiga Farm marched through the streets of Nairobi to hand in a petition to the National Assembly. Their demand was an investigation in the unlawful eviction from their lands, the Twiga Farm, and recognition of their right to return.

Wendy Wanja Mutegi is a human rights lawyer and community organiser who currently chairs the Law and Social Development Trust (LASODET), an organisation dedicated to the defence of indigenous and environmental rights in Kenya.

There are three main reasons for this: First, and to be specific the population of Kenyans in Europe is static after stringent Shengen Visa entry requirements of 26 EU countries, and three non- EU countries were harmonised in the mid-2000s.

Since Kenya attained independence in 1963, successive regimes have adopted a policy of separating the military from civilian institutions as a means of ensuring civilian rule and avoiding the participation of military or paramilitary units in the machinations of governance.