Wycliffe Muga

5 days ago | the-star.co.ke | Wycliffe Muga

What is the difference between a container of coffee being shipped out to Germany from the Kilindini Port in Mombasa, and a planeload of German tourists arriving at Mombasa’s Moi International Airport? From an insular Kenyan point of view, there is no real difference. In one case, we have Germans paying for Kenyan agricultural goods. On the other, we have Germans paying for Kenyan tourism services.

1 week ago | the-star.co.ke | Wycliffe Muga

ROUGHLY 20 years ago, and at a time when America was far friendlier to foreigners than it appears to be at present, I had the good fortune of attending a number of meetings with American think tanks both in New York and in Washington DC. Well, what impressed me most was the capacity the resident scholars at the American think tanks had for projecting, not just a few years ahead, but decades ahead, to assess the threats and opportunities that potentially lay ahead for their country.

3 weeks ago | the-star.co.ke | Wycliffe Muga

WITHIN the opinions and commentary sections of the local mainstream media, you will often find contributors to those pages self-identify as “communications experts” or “media strategists” or any of the many other titles used to identify those who work in what I shall broadly term as “media relations.”So much so that you might be justified in wondering if Kenya has a huge surplus of people, with a degree of expertise in media relations. In my opinion, this is not quite the case.

1 month ago | the-star.co.ke | Wycliffe Muga

If you are a regular reader of the more highbrow US mainstream publications, you will know that the question which some of the most celebrated American journalists are wrestling with at this time, is that of trying to understand “the Trump voter.” For to all such writers it had all along during the 2024 presidential campaigns been so obvious that candidate Donald Trump was lying every single day, and making promises he could not possibly keep, that they could not see how he could possibly win.

1 month ago | the-star.co.ke | Wycliffe Muga

In SummaryThe (now former) Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has pledged that he will make Ruto a one-term president. But we all take it for granted that he proposes to achieve this goal through the political process, and not by unleashing violence. STAR ILLUSTRATIONThere are many ways of looking at the political drama of the past week, which ended with President William Ruto and the former Prime Minister Raila Odinga signing what amounted to a power-sharing political pact.