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 | Dec 1, 2023 | Examining Tissue Issues, Shaping narratives
I have a very bad feeling about the civil society sector. I just completed compiling a report for the Civic Freedoms Forum that speaks about pushback on the makings of a police state and the bid to suspend our constitution by the rogue police inspector general and the...
by Patrick Ochieng | Jul 30, 2023 | Examining Tissue Issues, Shaping narratives
OBURE WUOD TINA IS PALPABLY ANGRIER THAN ME. OBURE PENS A PIECE BELOW THAT MIRRORS PERHAPS ONLY TWO SPEECHES THAT I CAN REMEMBER. THE SPEECH BY GOVERNOR JAMES ORENGO IN 1994 AT JARAMOGI ODINGA’S FUNERAL AND THE 2018 JULIUS MALEMA SPEECH AT WINNIE MANDELA’S FUNERAL....
by Patrick Ochieng | Mar 27, 2023 | Examining Tissue Issues, Shaping narratives
This time Ruto has gotten it wrong. His Deputy Rigathi and Leader of Majority Kimani Ichungwa say that Uhuru Kenyatta is the sole sponsor of the maandamano. What is not clear is what needs to be sponsored. Kenyans are in the maandamano for five main issues all of...
by Patrick Ochieng | Feb 21, 2022 | Shaping narratives
Our Courts have Lost their Ballast. A Mombasa Magistrate has sentenced 5 activists to Jail for participating in a demonstration against COVID 19 funds theft on trivial COVID rules that were not proved an the trial. Boni is right to be apprehensive about his date with...
by Patrick Ochieng | Sep 1, 2021 | Shaping narratives
Since the beginning of June I have been holed by choice in the sleepy village of Gul Kamwamba on the shores of a small stream, we call Nyameme; Gul is to be exact a forgotten community on the administrative boundary of South and East Gem Locations in Siaya County. In...