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Kiundu Waweru

Africans: The missing ‘feet and hands’ of the army of WW1

This is an account of our ancestors, who ‘won’ the First World War but never got the rightful place in history.

By Kiundu Waweru 5 years ago

Africans: The missing ‘feet and hands’ of the army of WW1

The Standard Group joins the run to save the Tsavo

The Standard Group joins the run to save the Tsavo

By Kiundu Waweru 5 years ago

Motorcycle ride saved my day, in 30 minutes

Motorcycle ride saved my day, in 30 minutes

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

Nairobi residents abandon cars to beat traffic jams

Nairobi residents abandon cars to beat traffic jams

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

August proves to be Kenya's darkest month, yet again

The dictionary describes August as not just the eighth month of the year, but something with an impressive quality, majestic, regal.

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

August proves to be Kenya's darkest month, yet again

No resources were lost, CS Rotich responds

National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich, has released a press statement 'setting the record straight' on media reports on the damning ombudsman report.

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

No resources were lost, CS Rotich responds

Obama’s speeches tell of philosophy that drove him to White House

On his last campaign trail while running for the second term in the Iowa State, US President Barack Obama emotionally gave a moving speech, which came to be known as Fired Up, Ready to Go.

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

Obama’s speeches tell of philosophy that drove him to White House

Ojwang’: The man with a knack for making the ordinary extraordinarily funny

When just a few Kenyans owned television sets, Mzee Ojwang’ Hatari was a news-maker and a celebrity.

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

Ojwang’: The man with a knack for making the ordinary extraordinarily funny

ktnNEWS to push integration agenda

Bank on the new 24-hour television channel launched Friday night as the catalyst to business and overall growth in East Africa, Standard Group Chief Executive (CEO) Sam Shollei has said.

By Alphonce Shiundu and Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

ktnNEWS to push integration agenda

Mama Sarah Obama’s mega legacy project set to take off

The world famous Kogelo village, the ancestral home of the US President Barack Obama in Siaya County, is about to get a new attraction.

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

Mama Sarah Obama’s mega legacy project set to take off

Agencies blamed for alcohol deaths

One thing puzzling Kenyans since President Uhuru Kenyatta’s call on the crackdown of illicit alcohol is the move by the Kenya Bureau of Standards (Kebs) to almost immediately suspend 385 alcoholic brands.

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

Agencies blamed for alcohol deaths

Lupita Nyong’o spoils guests at her dinner bash

Lupita Nyong’o’s Sh10,000 dinner was worth every coin. The delicacies — from the starters, to the main course and dessert— were on point. The bread was farm fresh from the bakery, the soup was rich and tasty, the wines were five-star class, the meats were succulent ...you get the drift?

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

Lupita Nyong’o spoils guests at her dinner bash

Budding speech writer impresses at mentorship event

The Standard Group has partnered with the Kenya Community Development Foundation in a programme titled Mentenda, which mentors boys.

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

Budding speech writer impresses at mentorship event

Lupita arrives incognito under heavy security over a year later

Lupita Nyong’o is in the country. She was spotted on Thursday night, four days before the official date given by her publicists.

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

Lupita arrives incognito under heavy security over a year later

'Sunday Essay’ comes alive in a book

Luckily for us, we no longer worry too much about what to pick from the shelves for finally from Kenya comes an author whose writings not only provoke thought, but arouse the age-old questions of identity and mortality.

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

'Sunday Essay’ comes alive in a book

Kenyan eyeing global maritime seat to promote ‘blue economy’

On June 30, Kenya may have one of its own holding a coveted position that has eluded Africa for five decades. This is the Secretary General of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO).

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

Kenyan eyeing global maritime seat to promote ‘blue economy’

Experts mull ‘smarter’ targets for post- Millennium Development Goals

An interesting research conducted in Guatemala, Mexico in 1969 is true to Kenya today as is to the world.

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

Experts mull ‘smarter’ targets for post- Millennium Development Goals

Justin Muturi, pilot speak on helicopter ‘mishap’

Over the Madaraka Day weekend, two helicopters came into bad weather; one crashed killing the lone pilot, the other, carrying Speaker of the National Assembly Justin Muturi landed safely in a shamba.

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

Justin Muturi, pilot speak on helicopter ‘mishap’

Return of Ngugi wa Thiong’o with his writing children

Renowned author Ngugi wa Thiong’o, 77, returned to Alliance High School this week with a bright red shuka draped over his shoulder – having been freshly enthroned as an elder – clutching a memoir documenting his time there.

By Peter Kimani and Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

Return of Ngugi wa Thiong’o with his writing children

‘We are one, despite our perceived differences’

Flanked by professors, doctors, literature lovers and students, Prof Micere Mugo held all under the spell of intellectualism.

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

‘We are one, despite our perceived differences’

Kenya among countries with highest child mortality rates

This year marks the deadline in which all countries should have met all the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) that the world committed to in 2000.

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

Kenya among countries with highest child mortality rates

And now a thinking man’s companion: ‘Sunday Essay’ comes alive in a book

I once took an online health journalism course whose one module was a shocker; it was simply titled “Think”.

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

And now a thinking man’s companion: ‘Sunday Essay’ comes alive in a book

It is no secret, North Eastern education is in turmoil

A primary school teacher at a boarding school in Garissa County, who hails from Mwingi, says there is so much fear in the region that she is forced to spend nights with three pupils also from 'down' Kenya (non-locals).

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

It is no secret, North Eastern education is in turmoil

Uhuru joins Red Cross in marking 50 years of helping out

President Uhuru Kenyatta joined humanitarian group, Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS), in marking its golden jubilee.

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

Uhuru joins Red Cross in marking 50 years of helping out

Harrowing diary of guardian‘s week-long search for ‘blessing’

A guardian‘s week-long search for ‘blessing’, a victim of Garissa University terror attack.

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

Harrowing diary of guardian‘s week-long search for ‘blessing’

Unravelling the riddle of Alliance giants amid limping dwarfs

Kikuyu Sub-County, with its landmarks like PCEA Kikuyu Hospital whose Eye Unit attracts patients from East and Central Africa has a rich history.

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

Unravelling the riddle of Alliance giants amid limping dwarfs

Priest risked life to bring Gospel to South Sudan

Father Daniele Comboni, born in 1831 in Brescia, Italy, came to Africa at a time when sending missionaries to the continent were seen as “condemning them towards a sure death with no visible fruits”

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

Priest risked life to bring Gospel to South Sudan

Sombre mood at Chiromo Mortuary as families receive bodies of Garissa University massacre

There was a sombre mood Friday at Chiromo Mortuary as families to students of Garissa University College streamed in their hundreds for either positive or negative confirmations.

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

Sombre mood at Chiromo Mortuary as families receive bodies of Garissa University massacre

Changing fortunes for terror attack Baby Osinya as he starts school, one year later

Baby Satrin Osinya's future is looking bright, one year since terrorists snuffed out his mother's life. Satrin has started school. He is in kindergarten at the Potterhouse School in Runda, Nairobi, which offers the British National curriculum.

By Kiundu waweru 9 years ago

Changing fortunes for terror attack Baby Osinya as he starts school, one year later

Nairobi sings ode to phenomenal woman

The Phoenix Theatre is known for staging thought-provoking plays, both original scripts from Kenyan playwrights and also adaptations, but on Thursday last week, the stage took another life.

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

Nairobi sings ode to phenomenal woman

Stima Series: The fun way to teach young ones about electricity

In the old days, school trips were an exciting time for the few pupils who could afford the extra money needed. The popular destinations were Nairobi National Park, National Museums and perhaps Masinga Dam to learn how water generates electricity.

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

Stima Series: The fun way to teach young ones about electricity

Stop and read this ‘controversial’ book!

At a time when all the talk is about a continent on the rise, one man has written a brave book, A Confident Africa, A New Social- Economic Morality.

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

Stop and read this ‘controversial’ book!

Radio Maisha commands the airwaves

On the last Tuesday of January, a call came through to the Radio Maisha studio, shaking presenters Alex Mwakideu and Jalang’o.

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

Radio Maisha commands the airwaves

Day of judgement for Homa Bay beckons

The Seventh Day Adventists, unlike many other denominations do not believe that the dead go to heaven or hell. Rather, they remain unconscious until the return of Christ for judgment.

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

Day of judgement for Homa Bay beckons

Banned in Nigeria, Obasanjo to launch memoir in Nairobi

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

By Mwaura Samora and Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

Banned in Nigeria, Obasanjo to launch memoir in Nairobi

Turning Kenya to a pay-tv nation unfair to consumers

With a salary of Sh10,000, Dennis Omweno, a waiter in Nairobi says he cannot afford to pay any more bill, no less for television, which he has been getting for free all along.

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

Turning Kenya to a pay-tv nation unfair to consumers

Poultry rearing system that offers impressive yields

The normal way of rearing poultry is doing free range for ‘kienyeji’ and for layers, putting them in a chicken structure. But farmers are embracing a new technology that promises good returns — rearing the layers in a cage.

By Kiundu waweru 9 years ago

Poultry rearing system that offers impressive yields

Row deepens over KEBS multi-billion shillings contract

The battle for pre-shipment inspection of motor vehicles contract, which has since reached implausible levels of hostility continues to take shape five years later.

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

Row deepens over KEBS multi-billion shillings contract

Kenyan Embassy in Japan caught up in controversial tender

The Kenyan Embassy in Japan has been caught up in a controversial multi-billion shillings International tender involving Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS).

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

Kenyan Embassy in Japan caught up in controversial tender

Lessons from France’s response to terror

Africa watched in awe as France, supported by the World’s super powers united to condemn and hunt terrorists who attacked satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo killing 12 people.

By kiundu waweru 9 years ago

Lessons from France’s response to terror

Billionaire offers fat kitty for 10,000 future African entrepreneurs

Kenyan entrepreneurs stand a chance of getting close to Sh900,000 in seed capital through the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP). Our writer KIUNDU WAWERU was in Lagos during the TEEP launch and brings you the story of the Nigerian billionaire behind this gift to ‘Africa.’

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

Billionaire offers fat kitty for 10,000 future African entrepreneurs

Meru looks to tourism to grow economy

Meru Governor Peter Munya, says his county is targeting other income-generating ventures after the UK, the major miraa market, banned the plant.

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

Meru looks to tourism to grow economy

2014 most trending topics as more Kenyans take to the net

Internet, and social media has changed the way people live. In December, Google, the top online search engine released the top searched topics around the world.

By Kiundu waweru 9 years ago

2014 most trending topics as more Kenyans take to the net

Churches in bid to stem ‘unkindest cut of all’

Rite of passage, symbolised by the cut among the people of Central is an important custom.

By Kiundu Waweru 9 years ago

Churches in bid to stem ‘unkindest cut of all’

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