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PLANNERS ARE JUST LIKE THE biblical Noah. They have different titles: Town planner or Physical planner, but they have been reduced to prophets whose advice is never heeded until people drown.
KENYA IS TURNING GREEN again. The rains have started, and for that, we must all be thankful. The past two years have been an ordeal for many, struggling on the fringes of survival as a bitter drought wound ever tighter.
There is a fundamental human right that the proposed constitution has left out of the Bill of Rights: The right to emergency treatment. As it is, the number of road accidents is disproportionately high compared to the number of vehicles on our highways, yet the country lacks an elaborate system to respond to emergencies.
ONE OF MY MOST PAINFUL memories in primary school was an annual ritual called Parents Day when all the students would showcase their talents to relatives who bothered to show up.
John Juma feels disoriented. The veteran government administrator, popularly known in his fiefdom as "Bwana DC" cannot understand the new constitution. He rose through the ranks from the colonial service, a feared junior administrator who dreaded the onset of independence, but to his pleasant surprise was retained and promoted to even higher office.
I have read various comments on the draft constitution by Kenyans, and I am amazed that there are those who think we should reject the entire document only because of a provision or a chapter they object to. What is frustrating is that these people do not offer solutions to whatever they are opposed to. A good example is expressed in an article by Donald Kipkorir in the Sunday Nation of November ...
There is one cardinal principle that we must state from the outset. The campaign to save the Mau Forest complex from destruction by human encroachment is not negotiable. Period.
The harmonised draft constitution stands accused of creating two centres of power. It is guilty as charged. However, this is not intrinsically a conflict because the draft has proceeded to elaborate the distinct mandates and powers of the respective centres and how these should be exercised.
Greetings from Koinange Street!You've guessed wrong what I am doing in a red-light district. As a law-abiding citizen, I just like walking up and down Koinange Street whenever I am on holiday in Nairobi without any mischievous agenda. I've been thinking about the much-ballyhooed harmonised draft of the new constitution as I walk down Koinange Street, in particular because since the post-election ...
I have taken time to read the draft constitution front to back and back to front. I have done so not once, but three times. I have thought hard and long about it. Let me state the bottom line upfront - except for a few matters which are easily cured - the draft constitution is one of the most progressive and democratic documents of its kind in the world.
In an interview carried in the Saturday Nation, Agriculture minister William Ruto warned against the politicisation of Wednesday's fund-raiser for the Mau Forest evictees.
TO many Zambians, human trafficking appears to be a peripheral problem that affects other countries and foreign nationals, and its discussion does not attract interest.
AS THE government prepares to champion the cause of developing nations at Copenhagen, what is the track record at home that can be trumpeted as an example of good climate mitigation practice? Sadly, the answer is a dismal one.
THE recession is over, the election year is all but over and a new mood of rejuvenation has gripped the government. It has asked in a spirit of outreach for ideas on restructuring the economy. So, with the greatest humility, here are mine.
SA HAS done a superb job of growing rhino numbers from about 100 in 1900 to 18000 today. In the rest of Africa, rhino populations have declined from 100000 in 1965 to 5000 today.
THE African National Congress (ANC) has left itself and its leaders out of the anticorruption script it has written, choosing instead to focus all its energies on the public service.
MONDAY, November 21, 2009 is a day our Information and Communications Minister, Prof Dora Akunyili is unlikely to forget in a hurry.
PUFFED to an unreasonable size, the Dubai bubble was bound to burst. Perhaps the biggest, and certainly lengthiest, bubble burst was the one Ben mentioned in his column last week. Back in 1989 we were having dinner with a fund manager, who shouted me down when I suggested that charts said that the Nikkei was about to crash.
LET's skip all the emotional claptrap, the political correctness and newfound South African way of justifying that our teams don't lose, the other teams just score more points. Let's get real and call Saturday's Springbok Test defeat and the five-match tour of Europe exactly what it was: an absolute disaster and a disgrace.
Culture \Long Live, your Majesty, Kabaka wa Buganda, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II. Permit me to share with you my dream of the great Buganda. Like the history of most nations, Buganda is a history of battles, blood and conquests. Back in the days the three were the canon that defined who is master or servant. However, thanks to the emergence of trade, industry and technology, power has been redefined.
Never has the Black population in the United States been as diverse as it is today. If Global Africa means people of African ancestry all over the world, the Black population of the United States is a microcosm of Global Africa. Today, this Black population includes people from literally every Black country in the world: from every member of the African Union, Organisation of American States and ...
In the first part of our review last week of Princess Elizabeth Bagaaya's autobiography Elizabeth of Toro: The Odyssey of an African Princess to mark its 20th anniversary, we focused on her education and modelling career. We now turn to her work in government. The Idi Amin coup found Ms Bagaaya in Paris. So excited was she that she flew to Kampala without returning to her New York apartment or her ...
LAST Friday, we carried a heart-rending story of three women who kidnapped an 18-year-old man in Chitungwiza and forced him to be intimate with one of them.
Climate change will hit Africa - a continent that has contributed virtually nothing to bring it about - first and hardest.
In yet another clear indication of why MPs should not be entrusted with too much power over economic policies, parliament on Wednesday passed a Bill seeking to reinstate price controls in certain segments of the economy.
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