Elvis Ondieki

Kenya

Senior reporter @NationAfrica || 2023 & 2018 winner, @MediaCouncilK Ajea Development Reporting award || Author || Man United || Taarab ||

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Articles

How ‘Nation’ covered Ngugi’s triumphs, troubles with Jomo, Moi

6 days ago | nation.africa | Elvis Ondieki

For an author who drew the attention of Kenyans since the early 1960s, Ngugi wa Thiong’o was up there in the list of the country’s newsmakers. Scouring through the archives, we got some of the headlines he made, which captured the key moments of his life.
World mourns as Ngugi turns into ‘a grain of wheat’

1 week ago | nation.africa | Elvis Ondieki

He opened his worldly book with the name James and closed it after long dropping the name. He arrived in the world in Kamiriithu, Limuru, Kenya; departed in Atlanta, United States. He shot into the scene while writing in English; departed while writing in Gikuyu. That was Prof Ngugi wa Thiong’o. With his death at the age of 87 on Wednesday, Kenya lost its best export in the world of literature. You will run out of fingers and toes if you use those to count the number of global accolades he received.
Bullets, stabbings and mystery suicides: Long history of brutal deaths of Catholic priests in Kenya

1 week ago | nation.africa | Elvis Ondieki |Jackline Macharia

Thursday’s shooting of Catholic priest Allois Cheruiyot Bett in the volatile Kerio Valley, and the murder of Igwamiti Parish priest John Maina days earlier, have jolted the Church community. The Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops, through its Justice and Peace Department, posted on X on Thursday that the two deaths are “a tragic loss to the Church and nation.” “We call for urgent government action to ensure justice, safety, and an end to impunity,” read the post.
US demands answers from Tanzania on Boniface Mwangi, Agather Atuhaire torture claims

2 weeks ago | nation.africa | Elvis Ondieki

The detention and alleged torture of Kenyan and Ugandan activists in Tanzania has drawn the attention of the United States, which has demanded an immediate investigation. The US Bureau of African Affairs, which is under its Department of State, posted a terse message on X on Friday night on the treatment of Kenya’s Boniface Mwangi and Uganda’s Agather Atuhaire. “The United States is deeply concerned by reports of the mistreatment in Tanzania of [the] two East African activists,” it wrote.
Amerika yataka uchunguzi ufanywe kuhusu madai ya mateso ya wanaharakati

2 weeks ago | taifaleo.nation.co.ke | Elvis Ondieki

Habari Amerika yataka uchunguzi ufanywe kuhusu madai ya mateso ya wanaharakati Na ELVIS ONDIEKI May 24th, 2025 Kusoma ni dakika: 2 KUKAMATWA na madai ya kuteswa kwa wanaharakati kutoka Kenya na Uganda nchini Tanzania kumevutia hisia za Amerika, ambayo imetaka uchunguzi wa haraka ufanyike mara moja.
Horrible and myopic: Kenyan Harvard alumni slam ban on international students

2 weeks ago | nation.africa | Elvis Ondieki

“Unacceptable”, “myopic” and “horrible” are among the adjectives some used to describe the move. Former Meru Governor Kiraitu Murungi, who obtained a master’s degree from Harvard while in exile in the early 1990s, described the move as “very myopic and unfortunate”. “Knowledge has no borders,” he said in a text in response to a Nation query.
Dr Frank Njenga: Let your ‘lazy’ adolescent be, a lot is happening in them

2 weeks ago | nation.africa | Elvis Ondieki

If houses could speak, they could tell endless stories of adolescents clashing with their parents for being lazy and sluggish. All of a sudden, a child who used to be awake and sharp by 6am starts loving his or her sleep a little too much, to the chagrin of their parents. In a book that seeks to calm parents down, renowned psychiatrist Frank Njenga urges society to bear with adolescents, explaining that it is nature taking its course.
US seeks life sentence for Kenyan who 'helped Mexican drug cartel buy guns'

2 weeks ago | nation.africa | Elvis Ondieki

April 8, 2025 was a rather ordinary Tuesday in Kenya. But in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh, more than 5,600 kilometres away, 44-year-old Kenyan Elisha Odhiambo Asumo was having a far-from-ordinary Tuesday. That morning at around 10.30am local time, which was 12.30pm in Kenya, he was arrested by Moroccan authorities in his hotel room.
‘Kafala’: The silent slavery behind torture, abuse of Kenyans in Saudi Arabia

3 weeks ago | nation.africa | Elvis Ondieki

In case you have been hearing harrowing cases of mistreatment of house helps in Saudi Arabia and thought it was just the misfortune of a few, now there is a report from a human rights group illustrating a system failure. Anyone who works as a domestic servant can be mistreated, thanks to a decades-old system called Kafala, where your employer becomes your legally recognised guardian.
Hii hapa ndio sababu Wakenya wajakazi huishia kuteswa Saudi Arabia - Amnesty International

3 weeks ago | taifaleo.nation.co.ke | Elvis Ondieki |Fatuma Bariki

WAKENYA, hasa wanawake, wanaoajiriwa wajakazi nchini Saudi Arabia wanapoendelea kusimulia mateso wanayopitia, ripoti mpya ya Amnesty International imefichua mzizi wa janga hili ambao ni mfumo wa kafala. Mfumo huu ambao unampa mwajiri mamlaka ya kuwa mlezi wa kisheria wa mfanyakazi, unafanana kwa karibu na biashara ya utumwa iliyoendeshwa kutoka Pwani ya Afrika Mashariki karne zilizopita. Ripoti hiyo inaeleza mateso ya wanawake 72 Wakenya waliorejea nchini kati ya mwaka wa 2020 na 2024.