At his inauguration in April 2013, President Uhuru Kenyatta signalled a firm resolve to protect and conserve Kenya’s natural resources, a first for a newly sworn in Kenyan Head of State. Promising to exploit natural resources in a way that benefits […]

William Samoei Ruto’s entry into Mwai Kibaki’s Cabinet is one more instance proving that politics in Kenya is a spectacle of continuous experiments with various combinations and permutations of strange bedfellows. Indeed, as strange bedfellows go, none could be stranger, at first blush, than Kibaki […]

Frederick Dickson Amukowa Anangwe joined politics at the height of the campaign for multipartism in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Although he did not succeed in his bid to win a seat in Parliament in 1992, his fortunes changed in 1997 when he successfully contested the Butere seat and was […]

At 90, Nathan Waliaula Munoko is amazingly physically fit and clear-minded. Much as memory fails him on some details of his political life, he narrates many defining personal and national moments with interesting anecdotes. Munoko is agile and […]