MUNENE A MUTWIRI

She has not spoken to me the whole Month yet, we argued the last time we talked. It can’t have been bad because she also said some nasty things too. Maybe it was something else that I don't know. Now I’m sad and angry: Sad because she has stayed away too long and angry because she is in my mind too often I feel like it’s for the best; but I worry that I may not be able to do everything I would want to do –maybe because I’ll lose focus or lack Opportunity or maybe I’ve just never had the Love of a PARENT to watch over me. I know HE never loved me; HE always complained of me: I was never good enough for him. I think I also hated him. I despised him; I never felt proud to have his name, maybe that's why I swore an affidavit to have it changed. I have learnt that not everything works out not even family. All Thanks to David Nicholls and his book ‘One Day’ -Which is beautiful by the way- and life, which has shown me this firsthand. I’ve also learnt that nothing is ‘...

We owe it to ourselves to examine closely those figures that our political leaders and those that aspire to lead us cosy up with in public and also in private. Just as birds of identical plumage flock in close proximity, a man’s character can also be judged from the company that he keeps. Raila Odinga  is a political schizophrenic. His rhetoric oozes with refined contemporary democracy dogma, but his actions reveal a very violent and dictatorial streak. The exorbitant nature of his obsessive preoccupation with violence is rivalled by a few in modern day Africa. His proclivity for violence can be traced to his student days. As a youth, Raila Odinga, whose father served as deputy president of Kenya under Jomo Kenyatta, was given a scholarship to study in the then East Germany. He studied engineering. However, his choice of his undergraduate thesis is not only revealing but also a source of great perturbation. His thesis focused on bomb-making with special focus on nail bomb...

The life and career of one of Kenya's most controversial politicians, Raila Amolo Odinga, was only saved by a legal technicality after the failed 1982 coup. Raila was among dozens of people picked up and detained by police in the wake of the coup attempt in August. His name had cropped up in the initial interrogation of the Kenya Air Force personnel suspected to be at the heart of the plot to topple the government. And although President Moi sought to portray himself as a "forgiving and compassionate Christian", it was generally believed, and later borne out in fact, that the inner core of the coup plotters would be put to death. Like other suspected mutineers, Raila was charged with the capital offence of treason six weeks after his arrest. The State's case against Odinga drew mainly from the confessions of the 12 soldiers who had been involved in the conception and execution of the coup plot. In one such confession, signed by Sgt Joseph Ogiddy Obuon...