Tagged articles on Governance
Is the Voter Ignorant? – An Analysis from Kenyan’s Voting Behaviours
Image from BBC, 2013 - Voting process in Kenya Isn’t it interesting that many people spend more time, put more energy and effort gathering information when they want to buy…
If History Erases My Name, Will You Give Me A New One?
Image Source: Inside The Lives of Lesotho's Forgotten Phuthi People Native languages around the world are disappearing at a faster rate, today, than during any other point in history. Over…
The Democratic Republic of Wars & Conflict – CONGO
New times, 2020. Protests in DR Congo Many people say that numbers do not lie, and it makes sense mostly when you are thinking of votes, people who can access…
An Inter-Generational Governance System: Securing Young People’s Future
Over the years, young people in Uganda have been referred to as dreamless dreamers, impulsive, entitled, hedonistic, impatient folks. They have been sidelined and diminished to beneficiaries- flouting their legal…
IT WASN’T ME!!! JUST SAY IT WASN’T YOU? ~Shaggy
Tracey sat at the back seat of her father’s car as they drove to the countryside on the Nairobi Nakuru highway. Her dad was overspeeding to beat the fall of…
Of People Living Everywhere Yet Belonging Nowhere: The Story of Zimbabwean Economic Refugees
Becoming An Economic Refugee Being Zimbabwean and not actually living in Zimbabwe has become the norm for many nationals of the country. This is because many Zimbabweans today fit the…
A Quick Coma Comes Around and the Consequences are Quite Tricky to Cope with, in Somalia.
Somali frontline hero, a nurse at Martini Hospital It was an early evening in late 2019 when the Chinese authorities announced that a respiratory pandemic killed several people in…
This country is the COVID-19 hero. What is the rest of the world doing wrong?
This country is the Corona-virus hero. This same country is so close to China and this same country is not a member state of The World Health Organization but as…
Why the African Leapfrogging Theory is Still a Problematic Niche
The rapid spread of technology with the 3rd and 4th industrial revolution presents Africa with an immense opportunity for leapfrogging toward technological, social and political change. More than any time…
Kenya’s State Capture: Is the Nation in Crisis?
(Wachira,2019) State Capture is a political-economic project whereby public and private actors collude in establishing clandestine networks that cluster around state institutions in order to accumulate unchecked power, subverting the…