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Photo illustration by: UNESCO Slavery in the previous centuries was marked with humiliation, torture and deaths of the victims.  In 1791, Saint Domingue which is now called Haiti , experienced a fascinating strange event, where the enslaved people revolution . This insurgency led to the inception of International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition .  The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization(UNESCO) remarks this day annually with the dictum "to inscribe the tragedy of the slave trade in the memory of all people". It is a momentous occasion to remember the victims of slave trade, celebrate resistance and freedom, and fight against modern forms of slavery and racism .  As the day is serving a purpose and directly aligned to its course, key stakeholders who have the gist to push the agenda of the day slightly are doing less and have not reached the goal.  Young people, educators, artists, and...

El Niño It Is Before deluge, warnings came, attention ignored and that is how lives are lost, properties carried away and infrastructure destroyed.  Evidentiary El Nino is imminent as forecasted by the Kenya's weatherman with prediction rate going up to more than 80 percent with its adversarial effect to last until early next year of 2027. River Nyando in Kisumu usually burst and paralyzes the transport sector and as well disrupting people's way of life, Nairobi city after every continuous heavy downpour usually gets flooded yet it is the face of the country. Kisumu and Nairobi are one of the eighteen counties that have been labeled as high risk counties regardless of these, the county residents listen and watch El Nino information on media while the experts are in offices without any important communication to make. Communication concerning forthcoming irregular rainfall patterns should not be done through sharing of posters, circulating memos. Worthy to note...

A greater percentage of Kenya's population lives a hard life in the country while the remaining live a lavish life. "Hard living" is a song by Wailing Souls but among those in the streets of Kibra in Nairobi, Obunga in Kisumu, and Old Town in Mombasa, among other slums, it is an epitome of their livelihood. It is this reality, that those in the top ladder are satirizing. The remarks by Treasury Cabinet Secretary, Honourable John Mbadi on the majority of Kenyans consuming soda signifying the reduction in the high cost of living is unpalatable and apathetic.   Politicians in their cadres assume citizens subscribe to their ideologies only to later realize that the majority of Kenyans are awake.  The same speed and agility they have while speaking only makes Kenyan image to degenerate lest other countries alter their perception of what is Kenya. <script src="https://pl31036930.profitableratecpmnetwork.com/42/fb/6e/42fb6edaece576db30b03763452f3344.js...

Kenya is making a shift from chorusing Vision 2030 to a new song of Vision 2060. The shift in vision has been made abrupt that every person seeks to address the authenticity of vision 2060 especially at these critical moments that Kenya is experiencing a polarized political situation.  As experts could view it, that policies driving a country are formed by experts and such policies are independent of political affiliations. President William Ruto launched vision 2060 and formed a committee that would oversee its implementation as well as drawing structural guidelines raises eyebrows. The backlash received upon the launching is not drawn from political class alone but also from the experts, the same way the voice in this article raise concerns about the pragmatism of vision 2060 when Vision 2030 have not been reached. Kenya's vision twenty-thirty has just flew away even before the year of the vision itself. I am tempted to ask one prophetic question that will Vision 2060...

Who's to blame Kenya comprises more than 40 ethnic groups and perhaps this is what we call our strength because of the diversity.  In the happiness index, surveys reveal that in Africa, Kenya is one of the happiest countries in the continent. The survey has it right until politics comes in as the enemy with politicians as the conduit through which division, hate, violence and tension gets in.  Eight months remain for campaigns to officially begin yet politicians are organizing rallies across the nation to show how influential they are, how mammoth followers are after them but behind every rally casualties are evidenced.  Injuries, deaths, tear gassing, mars various rallies organized by the Kenya's politicians.  In Homa Bay, during the Linda Mwananchi rally, two people were pronounced dead while dozens sustained injuries as goons and the Linda Mwananchi brigades were deeply engaged in a scuffle.  Whereas Nyanza region and by extension Western Kenya b...

photo courtesy: amateur  The enmity between cat and dog is so intense that some animals in the compound with these two individuals might tend to take sides.  The dog's owner chases away the cat while the cat owner picks the stone to pelt at the dog. This enmity exists between the two owners just as it is with the pets.  In lieu of these domestic animals is a police officer and the ordinary citizen.  The relationship between men and women in uniform is so cranky that even if the ordinary citizens make a mistake, the police officer is to be blamed and when an ordinary citizen deviates from the norm, there is no room for forgiveness.  The enmity is cyclic, retribution with no contrite, and what does this one speak of a nation in a magnifying lens.   The recent trending clip where a driver was capturing a police woman allegedly demanding fifty Kenya shillings (kshs. 50) is not like interpreting a blank page in which one hastily flips to the nex...