Vol 61 No 19 | KENYA Keeping up with the Kenyattas 24th September 2020 As they take the field, the battle between the President and his deputy is testing the limits of ethnic politics 'You should go and insult your mother, not mine' said President Uhuru Kenyatta on 10 September to a small crowd just outside Nairobi. He was referring to two...
Vol 53 No 25 | KENYA Shotgun wedding season 14th December 2012 The deadline for electoral alliances has forced some unlikely political bedfellows to tie the knot, however reluctantly With barely three months to go before the general elections, the 4 December deadline on pre-poll deals forced Kenya’s promiscuous political class into a flurry of shotgun weddings....
Vol 57 No 23 | KENYAAFRICAN UNION Nairobi flaunts its credentials 18th November 2016 The African Union instituted 'peer review' over a decade ago but the process stalled. Kenya is championing its return With Ghana, Mauritius and Rwanda, Kenya was one of the the first four countries to be subjected to 'peer review' by fellow African governments at the 2006 African...
Vol 49 No 6 | KENYA Trans-Century and transcendental 14th March 2008 Formed a decade ago, Trans-Century Limited has grown over the past five years to become the biggest private equity firm in East Africa, with a multimillion dollar portfolio....
Vol 47 No 12 | KENYA The cocaine conspiracy 9th June 2006 The Kibaki government's bizarre handling of a multimillion dollar drug smuggling case is letting the real villains walk free On 19 June, Justice Aggrey Muchelule is to hand down a verdict in the case of two Italians and five Kenyans charged with smuggling 1.2 tonnes of cocaine...