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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Shiraz Durrani |Onyonge Mengo |Wangui Kimari |Wairimu Gathimba
There has been much attention given to the actions by GenZs and others under the RutoMustGo resistance activities in Kenya . This is appropriate as these actions have been the open face of resistance in Kenya in the last year. However, such resistance is, by its very nature, short-lived and difficult to maintain over the long term as it lacks the foundation for sustained activity. This is not to say that it did not have an impact on events in the country.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Wangui Kimari |Shiraz Durrani |Wairimu Gathimba |Kipchumba Ochieng
Since June’s anti-finance bill protests, dozens of people remain unaccounted for—a stark reminder of the Kenyan state’s long history of abductions and assassinations. Ruto’s government is abducting people every day. Literally. There is not one day that has passed since the anti–finance bill protests started in June when Kenyans are not being bundled into unmarked Subaru cars by unidentified persons understood as plainclothes police officers (in all of their shades of vigilantism).
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Shiraz Durrani |Wairimu Gathimba |Kipchumba Ochieng |Richard Heinberg
Events in Kenya are moving at a fast pace in the year 2024. Resistance to capitalism and imperialism under another comprador government had given birth to a new upsurge in resistance by working people, joined by professionals and activist individuals and organisations. It is sometimes difficult to see fast moving events in their historical and political perspectives.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Shiraz Durrani |Wairimu Gathimba |Kipchumba Ochieng |Bharat Dogra
The on-going resistance in Kenya is sometimes referred to as a revolution. This is perhaps because the hope for change from the status quo is stronger than the reality. It perhaps shows a lack of understanding of relative strengths of the opposing forces in the class war. It is indeed a class war that is taking place in Kenya today, although this aspect is often hidden or not clearly understood. That then leads to not basing one’s thinking on the reality on the ground.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Shiraz Durrani |Wairimu Gathimba |Kipchumba Ochieng |Robert Hunziker
Comparing war of independence with people’s resistance todayNote: This is a companion article to the author’s ‘Historical Perspective on the Resistance of Gen Z in Kenya’ published in countercurrents.org on 14-07-2024 . Available at https://countercurrents.org/2024/07/historical-perspective-on-the-resistance-of-gen-z-in-kenya/——While there may be many similarities between events from history and current ones, the two are never the same.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Wairimu Gathimba |Kipchumba Ochieng |Shiraz Durrani |Phil Pasquini
Before the mass revolt in Kenya spread countrywide in June, it had started in the informal settlement area of Mathare, in Nairobi, following forced evictions after flooding in the area. Wairimu Gathimba writes about how this wave of brutal action in the city was simply the latest in a long history of brutal evictions. Gathimba looks at the long struggle by residents to remain in the city in the face of such evictions, and what we can learn from their battle to keep their homes.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
roape.net | Wairimu Gathimba
Before the mass revolt in Kenya spread countrywide in June, it had started in the informal settlement area of Mathare, in Nairobi, following forced evictions after flooding in the area. Wairimu Gathimba writes about how this wave of brutal action in the city was simply the latest in a long history of brutal evictions. Gathimba looks at the long struggle by residents to remain in the city in the face of such evictions, and what we can learn from their battle to keep their homes.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
theelephant.info | Wairimu Gathimba
Log into your member account to listen to this article. Not a member? Join the herd. I do not know much about my mother’s childhood, or my grandmother’s. They did tell me stories from their past, but those stories were not long in the telling; that side of my family has always been reticent.
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Dec 30, 2023 | 
nairobilawmonthly.com | Wairimu Gathimba
By Wairimu GathimbaJust four years after independence, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga published Not Yet Uhuru, a seminal political treatise of the new country. 60 years after independence, and 56 years after its publication, one might argue that nothing much has changed. As a nation, we find ourselves still grappling with the question of how Kenya became free with the greater portion of the arable land controlled by a handful of owners even as millions are squatters on their ancestral land.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
popularresistance.org | Wairimu Gathimba
Above photo: (From left) Achieng Oneko, Jomo Kenyatta, Makhan Singh, and Jaramogi Oginga Odinga. Amarjit Chandan Archive. And The Civilising Politics Of Betterment In The Ruto Hustler Era. Despite the veneer of progress, what does a historical critique of East Africa’s capitalist beacon reveal? Just four years after independence, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga published Not Yet Uhuru, a seminal political treatise of the new country.
