Wam Literature

Boniface Mwangi decided to call it quits on being a civil rights activist. Congratulations to him. I wish him a very happy life with the family. Activism is not bread and butter as many Kenyans think. It is live bullets and teargas laced with clubbing. It leaves you hungry in an angry way. Frankly, every Kenyan would love to be on the streets today. They would love to sing and chant anti-Govt and Pro-Govt songs in equal measure. They would love to correct the rot in society but, they dare not. Why don’t they? Key among very many reasons is, Kenyans do not recognize leadership. I will swear that, there are very many Kenyans who do not know there deputy governors. I will also be confident to see any county resident name for me the members of the county cabinet. Rising up the ladder, the cabinet secretaries and cabinet meetings have become traditional stories. Who then rules Kenyans? A Kenyan is governed by the boss at work. This is the person who sets the rules and governs th...

The impeached and reinstated Embu governor Wambora could just have opened a Pandora’s Box. What is the import of the constitution if the institutions it establishes do not abide by the law? It beats wind out of the air just to stare at the Kenyan elite tearing at each other with supremacy talk. Did we establish these institutions to check on the excesses of each other or did we establish supremacy debates? There should be a way in which we can reach consensus or else we be done with the current constitution and go to the former tattered constitution. How can a country progress when every score is vindictive whence settled? We cannot allow Kenya to be sacrificed at the altar of greed and foolish outbursts. We cannot sit and observe the senate of foolish idiots grit its teeth to the county executive. We do not want to see the county governors, on the other hand like intellectual idiots lash out at the senate. Such scenes are retrogressive and irritating. Are we so dumb that w...