When he started out as a politician, Festus Mwangi Kiunjuri was seen by many as a mere political rookie. But this would turn out to be a great underestimation of his prowess as things evolved over the years. Politics was always Kiunjuri’s passion. […]

On January 15, 2008, at the height of the post-election violence that erupted after the disputed 2007 election, the then 33-year-old MP stirred up drama in Parliament when he swore by “President Raila Amolo Odinga”, contrary to the prescribed oath-taking manner where officials swore by the elected […]

President Daniel arap Moi stunned the country and the world at large when he appointed his erstwhile critic, Dr Richard Erskine Frere Leakey, to head Kenya’s Public Service in July 1999. Leakey’s mandate was to head a group of rapid response technocrats, succinctly called the ‘Dream Team’, […]

In his sunset years, Jackson Harvester Angaine styled himself the “King of Meru”. He will be remembered as the minister who had the trickiest docket in independent Kenya: Settling millions of landless Kenyans in the former White Highlands. He also […]