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Mulango Baraza

Why the world should ensure Netanyahu appears before ICC

History was made recently after the Hague-based (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes.

Why the world should ensure Netanyahu appears before ICC

ODM has no right to bully coalition partners to support Kenya Kwanza

ODM has no right to bully coalition partners to support Kenya Kwanza

By 4 months ago

Mourning Margaretta Gacheru, mzungu who loved Kenya

Mourning Margaretta Gacheru, mzungu who loved Kenya

By 4 months ago

Raila risks soiling his legacy after deal with Kenya Kwanza

Raila risks soiling his legacy after deal with Kenya Kwanza

By 4 months ago

Why debate on extending presidential term limit is misplaced

David Pkosing’s proposal that there ought to be a review of the laws with a view to extending the constitutionally-stipulated presidential term limit is ludicrous

By 8 months ago

Why debate on extending presidential term limit is misplaced

Why Rwanda offers vital lessons on ethnic animosity

This month marks exactly 30 years since the start of the three-month-long genocide in Rwanda that saw the mass murder of well over one million people as the world watched.

By 8 months ago

Why Rwanda offers vital lessons on ethnic animosity

Why US presidential election is not exciting this time around

A Biden win would mean an extended period of US domination of collective institutional and governmental decision-making.

By 8 months ago

Why US presidential election is not exciting this time around

Why debate on extending presidential term limit is misplaced

David Pkosing’s proposal that there ought to be a review of the laws with a view to extending the constitutionally-stipulated presidential term limit is ludicrous

By 8 months ago

Why debate on extending presidential term limit is misplaced

Why Rwanda offers vital lessons on ethnic animosity

This month marks exactly 30 years since the start of the three-month-long genocide in Rwanda that saw the mass murder of well over one million people as the world watched.

By 8 months ago

Why Rwanda offers vital lessons on ethnic animosity

Why US presidential election is not exciting this time around

A Biden win would mean an extended period of US domination of collective institutional and governmental decision-making.

By 8 months ago

Why US presidential election is not exciting this time around

Why debate on extending presidential term limit is misplaced

David Pkosing’s proposal that there ought to be a review of the laws with a view to extending the constitutionally-stipulated presidential term limit is ludicrous

By 8 months ago

Why debate on extending presidential term limit is misplaced

Why Rwanda offers vital lessons on ethnic animosity

This month marks exactly 30 years since the start of the three-month-long genocide in Rwanda that saw the mass murder of well over one million people as the world watched.

By 8 months ago

Why Rwanda offers vital lessons on ethnic animosity

Why US presidential election is not exciting this time around

A Biden win would mean an extended period of US domination of collective institutional and governmental decision-making.

By 8 months ago

Why US presidential election is not exciting this time around

Why Rwanda offers vital lessons on ethnic animosity

This month marks exactly 30 years since the start of the three-month-long genocide in Rwanda that saw the mass murder of well over one million people as the world watched.

By Mulang'o Baraza 8 months ago

Why Rwanda offers vital lessons on ethnic animosity

Why US presidential election is not exciting this time around

A Biden win would mean an extended period of US domination of collective institutional and governmental decision-making.

By Mulang'o Baraza 8 months ago

Why US presidential election is not exciting this time around

DRC Congo elections expose Africa's weakened democracy

The just-concluded General Election in the DRC, which handed incumbent President Felix Tshisekedi, a second term in office, indeed, by African standards, lived up to expectations.

By Mulang'o Baraza 11 months ago

DRC Congo elections expose Africa's weakened democracy

Why we need to learn from our past and detribalise national life

Pioneers of the post-colonial State in Kenya failed to establish and encourage the continual promotion of social compact and justice as the doctrinal predicate of our societal founding.

By Mulang'o Baraza 1 year ago

Why we need to learn from our past and detribalise national life

Ongoing Israeli, Hamas war a chance to seek lasting peace

The conflict has killed more than 10,000 people and Israel's ground offensive forecast to add to the infrastructural toll typified by the leveling of buildings and installations.

By Mulang'o Baraza 1 year ago

Ongoing Israeli, Hamas war a chance to seek lasting peace

MP's proposed bill on graft convicts makes nonsense of virtue

The MP argues that a convicted person will have already served the punishment and, therefore, the 10-year ban is unfair.

By Mulang'o Baraza 1 year ago

MP's proposed bill on graft convicts makes nonsense of virtue

It's not right for a few communities to dominate the public service

Just about five of Kenya's close to 50 tribes are "well represented" at the institutions under the report's focus, with some accounting for between 15 per cent and 35 per cent of staff membership.

By Mulang'o Baraza 1 year ago

It's not right for a few communities to dominate the public service

Why ECOWAS should rule out military option in Niger

Under President Bazoum, Niger was an important ally of the West, and partly played host to American and European forces fighting jihadists in the region.

By Mulang'o Baraza 1 year ago

Why ECOWAS should rule out military option in Niger

President wrong to celebrate killer police officers

The disgruntlement and disaffection of Kenyans with the Kenya Kwanza regime is palpable - and increasingly evident - even in its own support bases.

By Mulang'o Baraza 1 year ago

President wrong to celebrate killer police officers

We have let down our renowned writers and trivialised local art

The late Micere Mugo, like many of our past heroes and heroines, however, was a casualty of our congenital disdain - as a people and society - for "disruptive constructiveness."

By Mulang'o Baraza 1 year ago

We have let down our renowned writers and trivialised local art

Local biographers have badly failed our heroes and heroines

Our history as a country and people teems with myriads of heroes and heroines whose stories and memory are lost in the murk of oblivion just as fast as the fad of life itself

By Mulang'o Baraza 1 year ago

Local biographers have badly failed our heroes and heroines

Public should defend Parliament against Cabinet's overreach on privatisation of State corporations

There are fears and rumours, already, that the new Bill is being sponsored by some folks in high places intent on buying out and owning some of the State firms.

By Mulang'o Baraza 1 year ago

Public should defend Parliament against Cabinet's overreach on privatisation of State corporations

If novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o is not a national hero, then who is?

Ngugi wa Thiong'o is Kenya and East Africa's most venerable author, with a rich literary oeuvre that spans novels, plays, short stories, essays and children's books.

By Mulang'o Baraza 1 year ago

If novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o is not a national hero, then who is?

Let's unite to fight terrorists

Yesterday, I was at Moi University, in Eldoret, to keep a promise that was made by France in April this year; the promise to support students who were wounded in Garissa.

By Rémi Maréchaux 9 years ago

Let's unite to fight terrorists

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