We human beings, said Søren Kierkegaard, are “a riddle to ourselves,” a claim that feels painfully accurate each time we trip over our own resolutions and discover that grace is waiting exactly where we fell. The Bible...
One year ago, Kenya’s parliament burned, not with the slow, bureaucratic smolder of corruption, but with the raw, unfiltered rage of a generation pushed to the brink. The Finance Bill of 2024 was the spark, but the kindling had...
Introduction Why does an all-good, all-powerful God allow evil to scar our world? This timeless problem of evil haunts believers and skeptics alike, and it takes on urgent poignancy in Kenya’s current political unrest. In...
True belonging is neither a geographical location nor a social construct; it is an existential state of being, a spiritual homecoming fashioned not by human hands but by the divine act of “pitching a tent” among us...
Henri Nouwen’s three lies: I am what I have, I am what I do, I am what others say about me, are not mere psychological pitfalls; they are the sacred commandments of modern existence, recited daily in the temple of consumerism...
The tragic death of Albert Ojwang, a blogger and teacher who died in police custody under suspicious circumstances, has exposed the deep seated problems within Kenya’s law enforcement and political systems, raising fundamental...
If you’re a Kenyan who hasn’t yet been abducted, don’t worry, Safaricom is working hard to fix that. In a country where enforced disappearances have become as common as M-PESA fraud, Safaricom has emerged as the unlikeliest...
Albert Ojwang’s battered body tells Kenya’s ugliest truth—that our police don’t protect, they slaughter. His crime? Speaking out. His sentence? Torture. His legacy? One more name on the endless list of victims killed by a...
In the absurd spectacle of Kenyan politics, education has devolved into a cruel joke; one where parents and children are the punchline, left holding nothing but broken pledges while politicians laugh all the way to the...
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...
