by Patrick Ochieng | Aug 3, 2024 | Shaping narratives, Unmasking complexity
In this article I compare the crisis in Kenya with that of Greece some years back by taking words out of the mouth of the man who was in charge of Finance at the peak of the crisis Prof. Yanis Varoufakis. I felt the pain the ‘failed Greece Finance...
by Patrick Ochieng | Feb 21, 2023 | Examining Tissue Issues, Unmasking complexity
Kenya is a Country of surprises and very interesting dynamics. After the August 2022 elections a rapture, something akin to an Apocalypse has gripped the Kenyan polity in a tight and unrelenting embrace. If you speak privately to most on the winners’ side they will...
by Patrick Ochieng | Feb 5, 2022 | Pepping up local action, Unmasking complexity
Intolerance, Pettiness and Intellectual Bankruptcy finally leads to the eventual death of the Civil Society Reference Group (CSRG) Reflections by Patrick Ochieng, Former Member of the Oversight Committee Chinua Achebe (1985), in his book “The trouble with Nigeria” put...
by Patrick Ochieng | Aug 22, 2021 | Unmasking complexity
An article in the Guardian by Peter Muiruri on August 10, 2021, reveals shocking statistics that “Kenya recorded 483 suicides in three months, i.e. up to June 2021 a figure that beats the numbers for the whole of 2020 and the annual average of 320”. Muiruri’s article...
by Patrick Ochieng | May 2, 2021 | Unmasking complexity
A conversation recorded by Reuters in February 2015 chronicles a message the former US President Barack Obama told the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington that Christians had been guilty of violent crimes as well as Muslims. For this, the report says, “President...
by Patrick Ochieng | Apr 18, 2021 | Unmasking complexity
My 20 long years doing community accompaniment work has been an epic journey, leaving in its wake many footprints in the path of its journey. It is a journey that has been characterised by moments of joy but sometimes pain, moments of fear but also triumph. When I...
