society
The Awkward Squad
This photo was taken at Lenana School Nairobi; previously Duke of York School, in front of Delamere House.
While strictly speaking not an M File, I feel that this time and place in history resonates well with our Founding Era.
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Jamhuri Day?
I attended the Jamhuri Day celebrations at Nyayo National Stadium on 12th December and as the helicopters flew by towing banners with messages congratulating Kenya on forty five years of freedom, I was overwhelmed with feelings of pride and love for my country. But just then, D got a message from Mwalimu Mati telling him [...]
The Power of Sports
Sport is a lot more than dirty kit, sweaty bodies and broken bones. Sport has within it, the power to entertain and teach, and in the process create avenues for sustainable progression in communities.
In Kenya the Rugby Super Series, brings together top players from the premier rugby clubs in the country and places them in [...]
Our “Waheshimiwas”
As I think about Raphael Wanjala rotting away in Tihar prison in India, I wonder if I should blame myself and other Kenyans for the low standards that we seem to have set for our leaders, or if I should blame leaders like Raphael Wanjala for disappointing those who look up to them as leaders [...]
LONG VERSUS SHORT: which way for Kenyan Rugby?
It has been argued that fifteens rugby in Kenya is suffering because we have concentrated on the sevens version without thinking through the progression to the fifteens code. Are we right to constantly invest so much time and energy into the more viable sevens rugby or should we now regroup and turn our attention [...]
SHEEBEEN
Just as we are about to slither back to our miserable existence, bitter at the reality that we have been deposed from our throne-like bar stools, we stumble upon a haven; Sheebeen. Read more here.
WOMEN AT WAR
The 1985 Nairobi Forward Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women defines Peace as not only the absence of war, violence and hostilities at national and international levels, but also, the enjoyment of economic and social justice, equality and the entire range of human rights and fundamental freedoms within society.
Respect for the fundamental rights of [...]
SEX AND A KENYAN CITY
Fifteen years ago, personals in Kenya were limited to searches for pen pals of around the same age, living in different towns, usually of the same sex. Little boys and girls wanted to write and receive letters from other little boys and girls about their pets, their favourite foods, what they learnt in school and [...]
