Nairobi Remand Prison in Industrial Area is fabled as a dungeon which bubbles with all manner of criminals and social misfits.

Writer MWAURA SAMORA had a tête-à-tête with youthful STEVE MBOGO, who runs a mentorship programme and still finds time for business and philanthropy, about his vision for the young people of this country.

Besides taking the ordinary reader behind the scenes to explain how major events were shaped and influenced, Presidential Years is a good read for Kenyan political leaders, since it explains how one of the most successful politicians in modern America made his decisions.

After watching alcohol ruin his cousin’s life a few years ago, Karira Githire decided to dedicate his life to helping young people and those whose lives have been ravaged by addiction by establishing a rehabilitation centre.

On December 1, last year, Nigeria’s billionaire Tony Elumelu was hosting a cocktail party to a group of journalists in Lagos.

He was pulled from his chair at a party function, roughed up and humiliated in broad daylight at Orange House in Nairobi last October.

Running a political party is one of the most difficult jobs, thanks to selfish politicians who will bay for your blood whenever you make moves that go against their interests.

Life, someone said, is a journey whose only certainties are the beginning and the end. Kamau Thuo, the youngest Member of the Nairobi County Assembly (MCA), fits this definition well.

When Bolton Majale got a job with a leading smartphone dealer in Nairobi on completing his electrical engineering diploma, it was a dream come true.

Iddi Bashir, a former gangster who has taken to art, is an example of what art can achieve in an individual's life.

In the wee hours of August 1, 1982, Kenyans woke up to a coup attempt by junior rebel officers of the Kenya Air Force against the government of retired President Daniel arap Moi. More than 100 soldiers and 200 civilians died.

It is getting harder and harder for people with dubious intent to cover their tracks, as investigative equipment goes hi-tech.

To most Kenyans, Johnson Arthur Sakaja is the besieged The National Alliance (TNA) chairman who burst into the national limelight through a powerful speech during the highly-publicised party launch in 2012 where he memorably proclaimed that “we are not looking for those with millions of shillings in the bank, but for those with millions of ideas in the mind.”

“Santo Subito”—make him a saint right now — thousands of mourners chanted at the St Peter’s Square during the late Pope John Paul II’s funeral in April 2005. Similar sentiments were echoed by millions of Catholics around the globe.

More than 300 Kanu members from Kasarani in Nairobi are appealing to their national office to help save a plot belonging to the party from being grabbed.

Kiambu County will on March 1 host its first marathon aimed at conserving the environment through sports.

“Are you President Uhuru Kenyatta’s political adviser?” The Nairobian asked controversial political analyst Mutahi Ngunyi at his luxurious Museum Hill office that sports a Martin Luther King watch and chess board on glass table.

With the glowing tributes paid to Nelson Mandela by various world leaders during his memorial and his stature being compared to godlike figures like Martin Luther King Junior and Mahatma Gandhi, the narrative of the supremacy battles the iconic leader engaged with his successor Thabo Mbeki sounds un-Madibalike.

Our vehicle meanders through the sprawling Korogocho slums, where all the trappings of a low income neighbourhood are in grim display. Food vendors churning barrel-loads of dough being churned to make kaimati, chapati and mandazi, small shops with dark interiors, water selling kiosks and bare-bellied children eagerly running at us.

The East African Community (EAC), which is currently undergoing rocky times with Tanzania complaining of being ignored by Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda, is perhaps the only region in the continent with a uniting language.

It has not been easy for wheelchair-bound politician, Timothy Wanyonyi Wetang’ula, the MP for Westlands.

As Kenya celebrates its Golden Jubilee and designs ways of becoming a middle-income economy by 2030, our leaders should take lessons from South East Asia.

In the politics of the old guard like Kenya’s, it is easy to be pushed and shoved when you are a 28-year-old learning the ropes in the corridors of power.

He is known as much for his bling and flamboyant lifestyle as for daring political stunts that vary from boxing a metallic gate, and sleeping on the tarmac during a protest to negotiating with the dreaded Mombasa Republican Council.

The International Youth Day will be marked around the globe with pomp and colour on Monday, a day after a street festival has kicked off week long celebrations in Kenya.

From three unknown World War I ‘musketeers’ on Kenyatta Avenue to the iconic figure of Tom Mboya watching over the street in which he met his death, Nairobi’s monuments preserve the history of heroes and showcase unique works of art

Insiders point to a simmering ‘rich-vs-poor’ battle for supremacy in the civil society with an eye on donor funding. But some dismiss the claims as a mere smear campaign

Africa celebrated 50 years with a grand bash that brought together the usual congregation of heads of states in Addis Ababa

Statues are pieces of history that immortalise heroes, heroines or events in mortar, stone, bronze or wood. Their artistic relevance borders poetry or paintings hence more often than not their creators are as famous as the subjects.

NAIROBI,kENYA:Statues are pieces of history that immortalise heroes, heroines or events in mortar, stone, bronze or wood. Their artistic relevance borders poetry or paintings hence more often than not their creators are as famous as the subjects.