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Critiquing Kenya’s Hustle Culture through a Pan-African Feminist Lens

May 14, 2025
by Bernard Omukuyia
21 min read
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Photo courtesy of Kenya Strategy Support Program| IFPRI Introduction In Kenya, the concept of “hustle culture,” a relentless pursuit of multiple jobs or micro-businesses to make ends meet, has been romanticized as a...

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The Great Kenyan Abduction Magic Show: Now You See Them, Now You Don’t!

May 14, 2025
by Bernard Omukuyia
5 min read
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Kenya’s President William Ruto recently declared that all abducted protesters and activists have been released and reunited with their families. This statement, delivered with the confidence of a magician pulling a rabbit from...

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  • Spirituality

“To Whom Shall We Go?” A Psychospiritual Reflection for the Searching Soul

May 10, 2025
by Bernard Omukuyia
5 min read
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The Crisis of Belonging in a Fragmented World In the sixth chapter of Johns Gospel, we encounter a moment of profound existential tension. Many of Jesus disciples, unsettled by His challenging words, begin to walk...

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Why Kenyans Can’t Have Nice Things

May 7, 2025
by Bernard Omukuyia
6 min read
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Kenya’s political landscape resembles a perpetual soap opera, but the 2027 presidential race is shaping up to be a blockbuster, a showdown between Fred Matiang’i, the bureaucrat who banned fun, and William Ruto, the hustler...

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Kenya’s Ostrich Parliament,

May 7, 2025
by Bernard Omukuyia
6 min read
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One week after BBC Africa Eye premiered Blood Parliament, a forensic reconstruction of the 25 June 2024 Finance Bill shootings assembled from more than 5,000 images, CCTV frames, and ballistics trajectories...

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Turning Loneliness into Healthy Alone Time

May 7, 2025
by Bernard Omukuyia
5 min read
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Why loneliness hurts so much Most people have felt that heavy, empty feeling when the phone stays silent and nobody seems to notice we exist. Scientists now know this is not “just in our heads.” Brain‑scan...

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Rethinking National Dialogues in the Age of Social Movements and Digital Organizing in Kenya

May 1, 2025
by Bernard Omukuyia
45 min read
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High school student and her friends using their smart phones in a hallway. Photo Credit: Istock Introduction In Kenya’s volatile political terrain, national dialogues have traditionally served as formal...

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The Ezulwini Consensus at 20: Assessing Africa’s Influence on UN Security Council Reforms and Beyond

April 30, 2025
by Bernard Omukuyia
37 min read
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Introduction Twenty years have passed since African leaders articulated a united stance on reforming the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) through the Ezulwini Consensus. Adopted by the African Union (AU) in...

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  • Theology

The Gospel of Get-Rich-Quick in Kenya

April 29, 2025
by Bernard Omukuyia
5 min read
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Beneath the sun-soaked skies of Kenya’s savannahs, a new generation of young visionaries has risen, bound by a sacred mission: to become millionaires without lifting a finger. Why toil under the equatorial sun when you can bask...

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Development Without Democracy? Tanzania’s Progress and Repression

April 29, 2025
by Bernard Omukuyia
11 min read
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#Tanzania #Development #Democracy #EastAfrica #GoodGovernance #HumanRights #CivilLiberties #CCM #EconomicGrowth #PoliticalReform #SamiaSuluhu #Magufuli Tanzania has often been celebrated as an island of peace in a turbulent...

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