Glad to be honoured with Moran of the Order of Burning Spear. We keep the promise. we keep writing

I understand that the government has announced plans to relocate the Kenya National Archives — a move I have long called for. This decision could not be more timely. The current premises, though historically significant, are no longer adequate for the demands of a modern archival

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In the land of Kaka Sungura.

Once upon a time, Kenyans were asked to make a choice between Daniel arap Moi and others versus Prof Wangari Maathai. They gave Prof Maathai 4,000 votes countrywide. We have a problem.

The millionaire who ended her life within Happy Valley

We keep the faith.

In this article, I argue that Raila Odinga risks ending up like Harry Thuku:

Let us protect this asset from goons.

We shot Pio Gama Pinto. We shot J.M. Kariuki. We shot Robert Ouko. We shot Baby Pendo. We shot Rex Masai.We shot Boniface Kariuki. We shot the hopeful and the broken. We shot them in the dark, and sometimes in daylight. We shot them in alleys and in parliament grounds. We shot.

Tom Mboya: Remembering the man they shot on Government Road, by @johnKamau1

Remembering Tom Mboya: The man we easily forgot. Find story link in comments.

Tom Mboya: Remembering the man they shot on Government Road, by @johnKamau1

Murkomen is a later day Meinertzhagen. Read on:

Another generation returns to the trenches, bearing the standard of change once more. In 1991, the champions of democracy were scorned—branded as hooligans, rioters, and pawns of Western intrigue. Yet, despite the vilification, they endured. In the end, KANU relented, and the

After the Hola Massacre in 1959, police said the 11 Mau Mau freedom fighters died after drinking contaminated water. Cover-up requires intelligence.

From Hola to Homa Bay: A Legacy of Lies, Brutality, and Police Impunity, by @johnKamau1

To be a John Kamau, the Migori shoe thrower, today is to refuse scripted obedience. It is to ask uncomfortable questions at chief’s barazas, to challenge land evictions masked as development, to unmask church sermons that bless corruption in the name of divine favour. It is to.

There was a time Kanda Bongoman was denied a licence to perform in Nairobi. That is when I knew Kenya was a rumour mill.

For Lovers of History: To understand the [New] Stanley Hotel is to understand how colonial space worked. It wasn’t just a hotel; it was an instrument of empire. And at the heart of it stood a woman named Mayence Ellen Woodbury—a milliner from London who stitched her name into.