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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1 week ago |
nation.africa | Peter Kagwanja
It is Kenya’s third President, Mwai Kibaki, who famously said: “Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.” But Kenya now faces a real risk of international sanctions due to growing concerns about a new orgy of war profiteering. Voice against the criminalisation of the Kenyan state grew bolder and louder from leaders, scholars and the youth during the Second Mwai Kibaki Annual Memorial Lecture held in Nairobi on April 11, 2022.
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2 weeks ago |
today.line.me | Peter Kagwanja
In the 21st century, the story of modernization in China and Africa has increasingly become a beautiful tale of two paths, shared future. by Peter KagwanjaModernity must be homegrown. Models of modernization imported or imposed without regard for local realities could have calamitous results.
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2 weeks ago |
nation.africa | Peter Kagwanja
“Modernise and industrialise or perish.” This was the clarion call by speakers at the Hong Ting Forum on “China-Africa Dialogue on the Path to Modernisation” organised by Xinhua News Agency Africa Bureau in Nairobi on April 2, 2025.
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3 weeks ago |
panafricanreview.com | Peter Kagwanja |Maureen Barasa |Charles Onyango-Obbo
In November 2008, Zimbabwe’s inflation soared to one of the highest levels of hyperinflation in world history. The peak month-on-month inflation rate is estimated to have reached an incomprehensible 79.6 billion percent (79,600,000,000%). This colossal economic crisis, from which Zimbabwe is still recovering, sparked turmoil within the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and could be argued to have partly led to Robert Mugabe’s ousting on 21 November 2017.
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3 weeks ago |
nation.africa | Peter Kagwanja
For decades, Kenya has been enchanted as “the Land of Patriots.” But for more than two years the country has witnessed a titanic clash of patriotisms, climaxing in the high-voltage politics of March 2025. Kenya’s high-voltage politics has echoes of the famous warning from Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar: “Beware the Ides of March", to be wary of March 15, the day the great Ancient Roman politician and military General was assassinated.
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WHEN WINNERS BECAME LOSERS. 1. Over 47% of the Vote that made Ruto President came from Mount Kenya, which also contributed 17% of the vote that made Raila Opposition leader. 2. Simply put, about 64% of the vote behind the current Raila-Ruto Mongrel Government is https://t.co/dzrS2iKhh1