The EastAfricanComment /opOrEd/comment/-/434750/434750/-/9kpy00/-/index.html Kenya comes of age, Uganda will inevitably follow - in 2016! http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/opOrEd/comment/-/434750/1004184/-/cdaaaz/-/index.html Now Kenyans are living under a new order, one they have chosen for themselves. May their troublesome past not haunt them but just be remembered for academic purposes, and as lessons for the neighbours whose political future is not yet a settled issue. 2010-09-06T12:34:28Z Marando's accusations are so serious, the public deserves to know if they're true http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/opOrEd/comment/-/434750/1004182/-/cdaacz/-/index.html We shall have heard all manner of statements by the time this electoral season is over and the reapers have reaped and the weepers have wept. 2010-09-06T12:30:05Z Don't pussyfoot with Bashir, face reality http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/opOrEd/comment/-/434750/1004180/-/cdaaez/-/index.html Nobody could quite believe the evidence of their eyes. Was that really Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir? Surely not. Not on this day, our day. And if it was, obviously he would be arrested. 2010-09-06T12:23:58Z Nomads, peasants build the new city http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/opOrEd/comment/-/434750/1004178/-/cdab2z/-/index.html When Kenya launched Vision 2030 a few years ago, the government also released artist’s impressions of what Nairobi would look like by 2030. It was part-Shanghai, part-Dubai. 2010-09-06T12:21:00Z Why Museveni doesn't have to apologise for speaking Luganda http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/opOrEd/comment/-/434750/999078/-/cew779/-/index.html Suppose every Kenyan president made a quarter of his national address in Gikuyu! Or if every Tanzanian president made a large portion of his speech to the nation in Kichagga or Kisukuma! That is what happens in Uganda. 2010-08-30T12:49:43Z There is a republic in Southern Africa they called the house of the rising sun http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/opOrEd/comment/There%20is%20republic%20in%20Southern%20Africa/-/434750/999064/-/la7hlez/-/index.html What’s the point in Malawi’s new flag? Some countries in Africa have changed their national flags at different times for different reasons, some of which make sense, while some don’t. 2010-08-30T12:44:47Z Kenya's people too have promulgated their resolve http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/opOrEd/comment/-/434750/999058/-/cew75h/-/index.html The new Constitution was officially promulgated last week, finally ushering in the Second Republic. 2010-08-30T12:41:22Z Two EA women who flew out of the cuckoo's nest... http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/opOrEd/comment/-/434750/999048/-/cew74l/-/index.html On August 15, a very interesting East African event happened on CNN. On his Global Public Square programme, Zakaria Fareed interviewed two beautiful and intelligent women: Irshad Manji and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. 2010-08-30T12:39:01Z Is the whole region being sucked into this macabre trade in albino body parts? http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/opOrEd/comment/-/434750/994398/-/cess0j/-/index.html For some time before this incident we had a respite, as there were no reported killings or disappearances of albinos. 2010-08-22T21:00:00Z Uganda’s flamboyant ‘secret’ service looks out for photo-ops http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/opOrEd/comment/-/434750/994400/-/cessjs/-/index.html Some months after the fall of Idi Amin in 1979, the editors of the Uganda Times, a government owned daily, happened on a goldmine of a scoop. 2010-08-22T21:00:00Z Don’t shoot that foreign correspondent, he’s dying http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/opOrEd/comment/Dont%20shoot%20that%20foreign%20correspondent%20hes%20dying/-/434750/994362/-/106hl5tz/-/index.html If there is one group of people quite a few Kenyans would like to shoot right now if they could, it is foreign journalists. 2010-08-22T21:00:00Z Ngugi writes Kenya’s quiet resistors back into history http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/opOrEd/comment/-/434750/994368/-/cesrwv/-/index.html Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Kenya’s most celebrated writer, was home last week to launch Dreams in a Time of War: A childhood memoir. 2010-08-22T21:00:00Z Terrorists, thieves lead the way in Common Market http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/opOrEd/comment/Terrorists%20thieves%20lead%20the%20way%20in%20Common%20Market/-/434750/976906/-/h32wgz/-/index.html Security officers in Uganda on Wednesday presented four men who allegedly masterminded the twin bomb attacks that killed nearly 80 people who were watching the World Cup finals in Kampala on July 11. 2010-08-15T21:00:00Z You said No, now learn to live with the consequences http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/opOrEd/comment/You%20said%20No%20now%20learn%20to%20live%20with%20the%20consequences/-/434750/976910/-/nnl44qz/-/index.html Words and actions have consequences — directly and indirectly. The question now before us is the extent to which public figures are prepared to accept and those consequences. 2010-08-15T21:00:00Z Patriots must not turn a blind eye to the corruption poisoning the electoral system http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/opOrEd/comment/-/434750/976914/-/cdm8cs/-/index.html The recent primaries within Tanzania’s ruling party, CCM, bared the frailty of a number of parliamentary bigwigs who must have come to consider themselves invincible in their constituencies. 2010-08-15T21:00:00Z Binaisa liked his little joke, and he hurt no-one along the way http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/opOrEd/comment/Binaisa%20liked%20his%20little%20joke%20and%20he%20hurt%20no%20one%20along%20the%20way/-/434750/976928/-/520fbwz/-/index.html On Thursday August 5, President Yoweri Museveni woke up as the only living person who has ever ruled Uganda. 2010-08-15T21:00:00Z If you want a good laugh, look, like Museveni, in the mirror http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/opOrEd/comment/If%20you%20want%20a%20good%20laugh%20look%20like%20Museveni%20in%20the%20mirror/-/434750/972984/-/w090wy/-/index.html Early last week Ugandan media carried a story about the President’s long serving principal private secretary moving on to join politics. 2010-08-08T21:00:00Z It’s a new day, the sun is shining, we’ve made it! http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/opOrEd/comment/Its%20a%20new%20day%20the%20sun%20is%20shining%20weve%20made%20it/-/434750/972980/-/byknbpz/-/index.html This is it! Finally, after protracted struggles dating back at least two decades, if not more, Kenya has a new Constitution. 2010-08-08T21:00:00Z Massacre in CCM primaries shows why incumbency amid poverty is bad for you http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/opOrEd/comment/-/434750/972982/-/cdjg99/-/index.html Our region has had quite an interesting electoral season of late, from the referenda in Zanzibar and Kenya, to the civic elections in Burundi, to the presidential campaign in Rwanda and the ruling party’s primaries in Tanzania. 2010-08-08T21:00:00Z Yes vote shows this is the age of Caesar, not God http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/opOrEd/comment/Yes%20vote%20shows%20this%20is%20the%20age%20of%20Caesar%20not%20God/-/434750/972978/-/6fvr01/-/index.html The Interim Independent Electoral Commission in Kenya has just made history. 2010-08-08T21:00:00Z When states cannot protect women and children, terror is loosed upon the world http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/opOrEd/comment/-/434750/968366/-/cd1xik/-/index.html Terror thrives where states have failed to deliver. 2010-08-02T15:19:30Z Beware, they're waiting to subvert the Constitution http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/opOrEd/comment/-/434750/968350/-/cd1xhi/-/index.html This is it! By the end of next week, we shall know whether or not we finally (finally!) have a new Constitution. Frenetic work has been done by the Committee of Experts, the media and a host of civil society organisations — as well as citizens in their individual capacities — to educate people on the contents of the draft. 2010-08-02T15:08:40Z Burundi must learn that no corrupt govt is an island http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/opOrEd/comment/Burundi%20must%20learn%20that%20no%20corrupt%20govt%20is%20an%20island/-/434750/968342/-/k6tsnx/-/index.html The Kenya chapter of Transparency International, the Berlin-based anti-corruption watchdog, has released its annual East African Bribery Index and, to some people’s surprise, Burundi has emerged as East Africa’s most corrupt country. 2010-08-02T15:03:42Z SA got Mandela and World Cup, Congo got Mobutu. Go figure! http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/opOrEd/comment/-/434750/968370/-/cd1xja/-/index.html Halfway through the World Cup extravaganza, another important event on the continent drew international attention. This was the 50th anniversary of Congo’s independence. 2010-07-31T15:24:33Z Beyond Kikwete: Will the slighted Slaa be the star of the succession script? http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/opOrEd/comment/-/434750/963924/-/ccxliu/-/index.html When, in 1995, Dr Wilbrod Slaa, a defrocked priest, won CCM’s parliamentary primaries in Karatu, Arusha, the party’s national structures turned him down in favour of the runner-up, a veteran incumbent. 2010-07-25T21:00:00Z