Showing posts with label Kenya. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kenya. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Is Abraham Mutai an #EnemyOfTheStateKE?

He suddenly went missing on a Saturday afternoon, and only later would Kenyans learn that he had been arrested by CID in Mombasa and dragged to Nairobi for questioning. His crime was allegedly ‘misusing a licensed communication gadget’. However, the truth would reveal itself  that he was simply being bold enough to talk about corruption in Isiolo and Mandera. Previously, he had gone back to the history books and retrieved a damning report on ivory poaching in Kenya by the New Scientist Magazine dated 22 May 1975. 











Monday, December 8, 2014

Challenge Militarism and End Violence Against Women

By Jackline Mwanza @jackiemwanza and Irene Mutile @irenemutile 



Demonstrators at the #MyDressMyChoice Protest, November 18 2014
"Kenyans must learn from their constitution. Violence from any public or private spheres is a violation against human rights is punishable by law."
    “Let’s challenge militarism and end violence against women”, is the theme during the 2014 16 Days of Activism campaign. In the wake of stripping incidences, Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero wrote, “No one has a right to strip anyone in public and cause them unnecessary embarrassment.”  Whereas Evans Kidero is entitled to his opinion, his ironic tweet reignites debate on violence against women.

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Is JULIUS OWINO An Enemy Of The State?


























Many in Nairobi and beyond consider Dandora, or ‘D’, to be a place where man, birds and dogs scavenge for food for the bare fact that it hosts Kenya’s largest dumpsite. However, a gem, deep inside the informal settlement, has helped shape the music scene not only in Kenya but the greater East African region. Mau Mau Camp uses the influences of Hip Hop music to resist, contest and mobilize those that relate to the music to instigate for change.


Friday, November 29, 2013

Is Katindi Sivi Njonjo an #EnemyOfTheStateKE?

The current Programmes Director at the Society for International Development (SID) in charge of programme conceptualization, coordination and management does not fall anything short of an amazing character. Perhaps you are wondering who this is. If you have heard about the recently launched damning report; Exploring Inequality in Kenya, then you should know who is behind the initiative.


Katindi Sivi Njonjo holding a dummy of the report on Exploring Kenya's Inequalities

Friday, September 6, 2013

A Lone Man… Does He Become an #EnemyOfTheState? NJONJO MUE

Njonjo and wife Katindi Sivi Njongo during their wedding 
On 30 November 2004, a lawyer jumped over the perimeter fence at the private members’ car park of the Parliament buildings, ripped the flag off a cabinet minister’s sleek GK-plated limousine, and was promptly arrested. Charges were that he had created a disturbance in a manner likely to cause a breach of the peace.