Attack on Likoni police station stunned nation, emboldened raiders
An attack on a police station in Likoni on the night of August 13, 1997 was one of the most audacious acts of violence and disrespect for law witnessed in Kenya.
By BY BEATRICE WAMUYU 11 years ago
Attack on Likoni police station stunned nation, emboldened raiders
Kenyan app helps the world map, responds to disasters
In the wake of the 2007-2008 post election violence that saw more than 1,000 people killed and 350,000 others displaced, a group of enterprising Kenyans developed an app that has changed the way the world maps and responds to disasters.
By BY BEATRICE WAMUYU 11 years ago
Kenyan app helps the world map, responds to disasters
Witch hunters burn suspects in bizarre crimes
Although literacy levels have gone up since independence, many people are still superstitious
By BY BEATRICE WAMUYU 11 years ago
Witch hunters burn suspects in bizarre crimes
Boy students rape, kill female counterparts in ‘haunted’ school
It was on the night of July 13 and 14, 1991 that one of the most despicable incidents of violence by teenagers happened.
By By BEATRICE WAMUYU 11 years ago
Boy students rape, kill female counterparts in ‘haunted’ school
Three Hawkers jailed for failing to combat crime
Three hawkers were jailed for six months each for refusing to help a woman as she was being robbed in Mombasa.
By By BEATRICE WAMUYU 11 years ago
Three Hawkers jailed for failing to combat crime
Kenya’s ‘most generous’ gangster dies in gunfight
Our writer, Beatrice Wamuyu, looks at the exploits of one of the country’s most dreaded gangsters in the 1970s.
By By BEATRICE WAMUYU 11 years ago
Kenya’s ‘most generous’ gangster dies in gunfight
Brutal family killing that horrified entire nation
Jamin Mukobero descended on eight of his kin among them his pregnant wife, and slashed them to death in a moment of inexplicable fury.
By By BEATRICE WAMUYU 11 years ago
Brutal family killing that horrified entire nation
Comedy of errors in Kenya’s first high profile kidnapping
Gangsters abduct tycoon for three days full of drama and comedy before police strike.
By By BEATRICE WAMUYU 11 years ago
Comedy of errors in Kenya’s first high profile kidnapping
Dying Kenyan languages take culture, history to the grave
Kenya has 68 languages, according to Ethnologue, a research project that has documented and catalogued world languages since 1951.Of these, Singa, which was spoken on Rusinga Island, is listed as extinct. This means no one speaks it today.
By By BEATRICE WAMUYU 11 years ago
Dying Kenyan languages take culture, history to the grave
Two decades of Mungiki’s cold blooded killings
Mungiki which started in the 1990s as a religion has evolved into a horrifying outfit responsible for cold blooded executions across the nation.
By By BEATRICE WAMUYU 11 years ago
Two decades of Mungiki’s cold blooded killings
Hail the matatu, Kenya’s symbol of urban culture
Did Kenyans invent the matatu? Certainly not. But perhaps we discovered it. Kenyans turned the tiny 14-seater van into a phenomenon that has come to represent everything ugly — and beautiful — about the highways.
By By BEATRICE WAMUYU 11 years ago
Hail the matatu, Kenya’s symbol of urban culture
Man hires witchdoctor to bewitch rivals’ supporters
Can one win an election by invoking the powers of darkness? In August 1983, it was claimed that an MP had sought the services of a witchdoctor to help him win that year’s election.
By By BEATRICE WAMUYU 11 years ago
Man hires witchdoctor to bewitch rivals’ supporters
Coolest robbery that baffled detectives, bank bosses
Charles Omondi walked into offices of Kenya Airfreight Handling Limited and tricked guards into handing him Sh54 million in dollar bills.
By By BEATRICE WAMUYU 11 years ago
Coolest robbery that baffled detectives, bank bosses
Nairobi couple attacked by laughing ghosts
A couple living in Umoja, Nairobi, were attacked by “ghosts” and forced to spend a cold Sunday night outside their house.
By By BEATRICE WAMUYU 11 years ago
Nairobi couple attacked by laughing ghosts
Why all humans share a common ‘Kenyan’ ancestor
What do you, your next door neighbour and Eskimos have in common? We are all children of the same ancestor.
By By BEATRICE WAMUYU 11 years ago
Why all humans share a common ‘Kenyan’ ancestor
Violent clash over rent that claimed thirteen lives
Kenya has witnessed violent clashes over rent. But nothing matches the bloodshed that unfolded in Mathare on June 3, 2003.
By By Beatrice Wamuyu 11 years ago
Violent clash over rent that claimed thirteen lives