Mwende Ngao

Jan 17, 2025 | debunk.media | Mwende Ngao |Isaac Otidi Amuke |Lilian Mutinda |Mwende NgaoUpdated

Rasna Warah’s contributions to journalism and social discourse cannot be understated. She was fearless and deeply committed to using her voice to expose corruption, inequality, and governance and social failures. I read her work and respected and admired her for it. However, some of her views were not without controversy, as she faced criticism for being racially insensitive.

Jan 15, 2025 | contemporaryand.com | Mwende Ngao

Uhuru, Uhuru!At long last,Uhuru!I have these wonderful memories of family Sundays as a child. We’d troop to church and then go to Uhuru Park immediately after for ice-cream and pictures. I have this distinct memory of jumping up and down while tugging at my mom’s dress sleeves begging her to wrap up her long greetings with other parishioners in the parking lot. My dad would be the one to save me and my siblings with a honk and wave for us to hurry as he was holding up the exit.

Aug 12, 2024 | zedamagazine.com | Mwende Ngao

Image CreditThe protests in Kenya kicked off in June as pushback against an unpopular Finance Bill. They have since morphed into a countrywide awakening to the deep corruption and mismanagement plaguing the country across all sectors. As we come to the end of a second month of protests, two things have become clear – Kenyans are serious about their grievances and tired of a corrupt and incompetent government, and the crisis of the Kenyan old guard is one of imagination, especially for its youth.

Jul 29, 2024 | zedamagazine.com | Mwende Ngao

The civilian led protests in Kenya have been an outstanding show of active citizenship and community building. Kenyans across class, tribe, generation, gender and political divide, have come together with the goal to agitate for a better country for all. In doing so, they have unearthed the deep rot that is the political class and the urgent work that all Kenyans of goodwill need to do to rescue our country. One of the stinky parts of this rot is women’s representation in government.

Jun 11, 2024 | debunk.media | Mbithe Mutavi |Mwende Ngao |Lilian Mutinda |Ras Mengesha

Sometimes when one hears the figures politicians and their handlers bandy around in a country as unequal as Kenya, one can’t help but wonder, do these folks breathe the same air the rest of us breathe; do they eat the same ugali the rest of us eat; and do they eventually go to the lavatory (it surely can’t be a toilet, because how can someone casually throwing around such obscene figures go to the toilet just like the rest of us?) to let it all turn to waste?