Opinion
Is Piracy Eradicated?
What are the root causes of maritime piracy and how should they be addressed? For James Kraska, the Janus-faced answer is simple – the absence of th...
Read More »Kenya: The perils of racial profiling
Speaking recently during the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the genocide in his country, Rwandan President Paul Kagame argued that the catas...
Read More »The Somali Question, The Kikuyu Answer
The Somali community is currently going through a rough time in Kenya, and it is not the first time. The colonialists did not care about them at all a...
Read More »Citizens must hold government to account for its actions in Eastleigh
Over the past eight years, I have had the singular privilege of writing a satirical column for the Saturday Nation. It is a special place that relies ...
Read More »Mass arrests and assassinations will only make our borders more insecure
Terrorism is commonly understood to be those violent acts intended to create fear, or terror, and are perpetrated for a political, religious or ideolo...
Read More »Angry politicians not saying how illegal aliens should be identified
There is a state of hysteria among the Somali community over the unprecedented screening in Eastleigh. The mood has been picked up by human rights act...
Read More »Is Operation Usalama Watch a Somali Gulag?
Last week, President Uhuru Kenyatta was in Kigali where he apologised to Rwanda for Kenya’s silence and failure to intervene and stop the 1994 genoc...
Read More »Ayaan Hirsi Ali degree is an insult to Muslim students
The Brandeis Muslim Student Association has worked endlessly to integrate itself into the Brandeis community, to be an active club on campus and make ...
Read More »Be Ware of Quick Fix Federalism, the Shot-Gun Wedding Type
As the combined forces of the Somali national Army and AMISOM are taking armed offensives to the last remaining strategic holdouts of Alshabab, a poli...
Read More »Kenyan Somalis are Guilty Until Proven Innoncent
Hundreds of ethnic Somalis living in Nairobi's Eastliegh neighborhood have been arrested following Monday attacks that killed six people in the Somali...
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