Author: Hansen Owilla

Presidency will matter less if we elect the right reps

Reading Time: 3 minutes Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States and the only one to have served more than two […]

Gen-Zs have no sponsor, so brace for long protests

Reading Time: 3 minutes The protests on the streets of Kenyan towns and cities over the 2024 Finance Bill have elicited mixed reactions. Some […]

Why we should not celebrate firms leaving Kenya

Reading Time: 3 minutes “Taxation must afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.” What a catchphrase by the maverick CS Moses Kuria! What if […]

Cacophony of divergent voices good for democracy

Reading Time: 3 minutes In most societies, what gains public attention almost always creates a bandwagon effect. Once an issue becomes prominent in the […]

Politics of deceit that demonised Uhuru backfirings

Reading Time: 3 minutes What if we are all thinking about 2027 and doing the tribal mathematics and the tyranny of numbers kind of […]

We perpetuate Kenya’s malaise by blaming leaders

Reading Time: 3 minutes Sometimes voters in a democracy give themselves too much credit for no good reason. We often blame the political class […]

Raila rattles those who think it’s their turn to eat

Reading Time: 3 minutes The trouble with our political class is getting power into their heads and using their positions for PR stunts even […]

Be wary of talk on ending presidential term limit

Reading Time: 3 minutes Restricting political power through the presidential term limit is one of the master strokes in our constitution. It protects our […]