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  • The Star, Kenya
  • allAfrica.com
  • African Arguments

Past articles by Tom:

How Kibaki's 'cowardice' served him well

Mwai Kibaki has been described as the man who never saw a fence he didn’t want to sit on. This seemingly cowardice position was to serve the man well in the many years he was in the opposition until he finally became a resident of State House. Kibaki was not the kind to work up frenzied crowds like Kenneth Matiba. Neither was he the one to march on the streets screaming ‘Haki Yetu’ like Raila… → Read More

Make or break moment for Raila as 2022 moment beckons

Writers of history will run out of superlatives in recording this moment of glory. → Read More

Raila's strategy to secure women vote in 2022

• Women groups come in all names, shapes, and sizes but their goal is the same — to see Raila sworn in as the fifth president of Kenya. • One of the newest kids on the ODM bloc is the outfit going by the name ‘Baba’s Finest’. → Read More

How ODM Women's League is fighting gender discrimination in politics

ODM Women’s League president Beth Syengo speaks about ensuring women participation in party politics → Read More

Kenya: How to Win Elections in Kenya

Analysis - In Kenya's previous elections, senators spent an average $319,000 in getting elected. → Read More

How to win elections in Kenya: be rich and don't be a woman

In Kenya's previous elections, senators spent an average $319,000 in getting elected. Kenya's general elections, scheduled for 9 August 2022, are now less than → Read More

Foreign Affairs ministry should rally behind Amina in WTO race

It is not just a job for Amina and her immediate family but the whole country’s pride and interests → Read More

How Moi's death divided the country

Some see darkness where others see a fountain of goodness → Read More

How Moi, the professor of politics, asserted his authority

Careers were made or shattered at maize-eating sessions. → Read More

Project Uhuru: How the professor of politics lost to Kibaki and Raila

The road to this humiliating defeat had been long and winding for both Moi and Uhuru. → Read More

The Kenyatta succession that brought Moi to power

Kenyatta’s body was deposited at State House and then the sad news was broken to the nation. → Read More

Re-thinking Kenya's governance system

Throughout much of the constitutional reform debate over the last two decades, the limited discussion of the system of government seemed to favour a parliamentary system. It, therefore, came as something of a surprise when, subsequent to the infamous Naivasha meeting in January 2010 between the Committee of Experts and the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) on the Review of the Constitution,… → Read More

Let MPs investigate themselves

It is commendable that the Speaker of the National Assembly has pronounced himself on this unfortunate matter which has brought the House into disrepute. The institutional integrity of Parliament has been challenged in a manner that is extremely difficult to recover. The bribery has lowered the standing of Parliament and eroded public confidence and trust in its processes and actions. Doubts… → Read More