Back in 2015 I submitted a Freedom of Information request for USAID records relating to the election assistance through IFES for Kenya's IEBC (the election commission). Over 1000 pages were sent from the Mission in Kenya to the USAID FOIA…
Ten years after 2008 campaign, the “Birthers” have won for now in the U.S., but Obama remains a positive symbol with time for another act: Former President Obama stopped in Kenya on his way to South Africa, his third visit…
Macharia Gaitho seems to have been of late the designated Kenyan columnist to convey certain background perspectives from the American Embassy. His April 8 Sunday Nation column provides in interview form a review by outgoing Ambassador Godec of his tenure and…
To the best of my knowledge and recollection, none of the various Election Observation Mission reports from Kenya for the March 2013 election covered the role of SCL Group of Britain (subsequent parent of Cambridge Analytica) for Uhuru Kenyatta. Nor…
Below is a draft post I wrote but did not publish back on May 10, 2017: Uhuruto re-election and Cambridge Analytica coverage in The Star: why now? Today, the Star, Nairobi's previously opposition-leaning third daily newspaper (a must read together…
I do not normally write on this blog on Sunday morning but over the years I have at times had something to say later in the day after getting a particular inspiration at church. But this morning, let me say…
Download: Carter Center: Kenya Final Report General and Presidential Elections 2017[pdf] Read the whole thing -- that is what we American taxpayers have paid for. In summary: "Regrettably, the elections represent a major setback in Kenya's democratic development." (h/t Daniel…
This item of Kenya - Uganda - United States history comes from a recently declassified Presidential Daily Brief from the CIA from the Ford Administration. Unfortunately about half of the item relating to Kenya and Uganda has been redacted even…
Ten years ago today I watched television coverage of the "peace deal" signed by Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga in the IRI office in Nairobi, on the new K24 television station (owned by the Kenyatta family as I later learned).…
Kenya's dangerous path toward authoritarianism by Neha Wadekar in The New Yorker. Kenyatta's grand plan to silence Kenya's free press by George Ogola in African Arguments. This is how you capture the rise of Kenya's vibrant contemporary art scene by…