Peter Kagwanja
Columnist at Daily Nation
Kenyan Intellectual, Policy adviser and Strategist. “Knowledge is knowing what to say, wisdom is knowing when to say it”
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6 days ago |
nation.africa | Peter Kagwanja
What you need to know:The death of Kenya’s literary giant, Prof Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, in the US aged 87, has forced a rethinking of the state of freedom in Africa today. Colonialism was the primary focus of Ngugi’s initial writings after 1963, when he received a B.A. degree in English from Makerere University College. 2025 is unfolding as an annus horribbilis (a bad year) for the academy the world over. On January 30, the Kenyan historian Bethwell Allan Ogot died.
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1 week ago |
nation.africa | Peter Kagwanja
Once admired as an “abode of peace” or “house of peace” (“Dar es Salaam” in Arabic), Tanzania now cuts the unsightly image of a wellspring of oppression. The country’s fifth president, John Pombe Magufuli (2015–2021), unleashed oppression on a national scale. Now, his successor, President Samia Suluhu Hassan (65), is giving wings to repression on a regional scale across the entire East African Community (EAC) bloc.
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3 weeks ago |
nation.africa | Peter Kagwanja
A new genre of authoritarianism in Kenya is testing to the limit the tenets, principles, and science of public governance. The country’s political elite has cobbled the world’s strangest mongrel governments. ‘Mongrel government’, experts say, are a blend of parliamentary and presidential systems. But the Kenyan elite is pushing the envelope mongrel governments, sealing power-sharing deals between the government and opposition.
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3 weeks ago |
nation.africa | Peter Kagwanja
In the 21st century, democracy in Mount Kenya, one of Kenya’s most populous and wealthy regions, is on a free-fall. The region is at the crossroads, faces the same leadership crisis as ancient Greece some 2,424 years ago. Citizens in the Greek City of Athens, reputably the cradle of democracy, were virulently proud of their democracy.
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1 month ago |
nation.africa | Peter Kagwanja
At the height of the feverish anti-China rhetoric that characterised the 2022 election campaign and its aftermath, I knew — and warned Kenya’s high and mighty — that the country cannot ignore China. The two nations are joined at the hip.
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My heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of Mugecha Njogu. The cruel hand of death took him on May 12, 2025. Murang’a and Kangari has lost a devoted businessman, a leader and devoted elder. May the Almighty God comfort his family and Rest him eternal peace. https://t.co/5EWG0qW8jY
Beware of Democracy, it is an ass!! https://t.co/qWCZIiqUJx
Beware, democracy is an ass!