• According to the Dedan Kimathi Foundation, the grave is located at the Kamiti Maximum Prison, Nairobi. • Dedan died in February 1957 at the age of 37 after being convicted and executed in for murder and terrorism by the British colonial government. The government has located a burial site where the body of the iconic Mau Mau fighter Dedan Kimathi Wachiuri was buried at. Image:   COURTEY The government has located a burial site where the body of the iconic Mau Mau fighter  Dedan Kimathi Wachiuri  was buried at, the daughter of the Field Marshall Evelyne Wanjugu Kimathi has confirmed. The Dedan Kimathi Foundation on Friday said the grave had been located at the Kamiti Maximum Prison, Nairobi. Wanjugu who is also the foundation's CEO said the news is not only a relief to the family but also to the larger freedom struggle heroes fraternity.   Wanjugu said they are now waiting for orders from the Chief Justice David Maraga on excavati...

Rachael Ruto commercializes her hobby so as to help women Mama Rachel Ruto the annual Cross Stitch International Exhibition [Source/twitter/@ssjjkh] Mama Rachel Ruto, the wife to Deputy President William Ruto, has commercialized one of her hobbies to help several women and people living with disabilities. ADVERTISEMENT "I was delighted to officially open the annual Cross Stitch International Exhibition that began at the Safaricom Michael Joseph Center," Rachel   tweeted . Through a series of tweets on Saturday, Mama Rachel started that she had officially opened an exhibition where people could buy cross-stitched pieces of art. She invited Kenyans to purchase priceless pieces as they engage with the project that is mainly aimed at empowering women. "Cross stitching is one of my long time hobbies. I was greatly honored to witness a special auction of the priced pieces. Proceeds will go towards supporting women who stitched them while in prison, persons living...

Museveni rose to power through the barrel of the gun and on top of a tank. That was more than thirty years ago, long before more than eighty per cent of Ugandans living today were born. He rose to power proclaiming himself a member of a "new breed of African leaders." He repeatedly criticized other African leaders on the grounds that they were dictators who "clang to power" and could only relinquish power through death. He asserted that his only interest was to obliterate dictatorship from Ugandan politics--which had been introduced into Uganda by Obote I, Idi Amin, Yusuf Lule, Godfrey Binaisa, Paul Muwanga, Obote II, and Tito Okelo. More than thirty years later, he has entrenched his name in the history of Uganda as the biggest dictator of them all. Secondly, Museveni rose to power proclaiming that he was a Marxist. At the University of Dar es Salasm, where he studied political science at the undergraduate level, he wrote a paper based on Frantz Fanon...

Bobi Wine hits back at Museveni over 'enemy of Uganda' remarks • President Museveni said Bobi Wine went to America and said that people should not  invest in Uganda. • But Bobi wine says Museveni has destroyed institutions and rule them through the barrel of the gun. Bobi Wuine during campaigns in Arua Municipality on August 13, 2018. Image:   COURTESY Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine has hit back at President Yoweri Museveni who for calling him an enemy of Uganda'. Wine, well know as Robert Kyagulani on his twitter said Museveni is a 'liar running down the country. Museveni had in a BBC interview said Wine was an 'enemy of progress' to Ugandans. In the interview, Museveni dismissed claims that he was using force to run down the country. He said his government is not repressive, but was dealing with Bobi Wine as an enemy. "Bobi Wine went to America and said that people should not come invest in Uganda...

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has poured cold water on Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), calling it “a big sham and a rip-off.” Speaking at the sidelines of an international seminar at Kigali, Kagame said it was “extremely disturbing” that Kenya’s ruling Jubilee Regime would escalate the costs of the SGR to astronomical levels so as to fleece Kenyan taxpayers of their sweat “for the benefit of a few people at th e top.” “They are now trying to excite Kenyans with the refurbished trains that weres used in China in 1950s, running on diesel engines. Terrible!” Kagame said. Tanzania’s SGR is four times longer than Kenya’s but only two times as expensive. Rwanda and Uganda recently shunned the Kenyan SGR, choosing instead to connect their countries to a railway line running from the Tanzanian port of Tanga through to Kigali and then up to the Ugandan capital, Kampala. High level corruption being perpetrated by Kenyan top officials, leading to inflated costs, was mainly blamed for the ...

In this file photo taken on June 8, 2000 Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe clenches his fist as Zanu PF party praises him at a rally in the village of Mupandawana, some 230 km South of the capital Harare. Robert Mugabe, who led Zimbabwe with an iron fist from 1980 to 2017, has died aged 95, the country's president announced on September 6, 2019. / AFP / Odd ANDERSEN Former Zimbabwean President Robert Gabriel Mugabe on Friday passed on at the age of 95, ending the life of one of the most prolific figures in African history. His death is another point of reflection and debate on the complicated legacy of the strongman who ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years which were preceded by three decades of independence struggle. The western media preferred to refer him as a tyrant, a dictator, a human rights abuser whose regime “ brought Zimbabwe to its knees”. This article is inspired by the teaching of Nigerian writer  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  who has warned us of the danger of ...

Youth activism beyond borders Odongo wekesa Africa is a youthful population, statistics show that the population of youth and children in Africa is rising. African youth are also among the most disadvantaged in the world. This ranges from economic refugees in Europe all in a bid to try and survive , to communities ravaged by the negative impacts of HIV and Aids to countries getting destroyed by election related conflicts. Conflict which increasing in the continent also affects young people more than any other age bracket. Additionally, In Sub-Saharan Africa, 3 in 5 of the total unemployed are youth (ILO 2006) and on average 72 percent of the youth population live with less than US$2 a day. Africa is also home to between seven to eight million illegal immigrants in the European Union. The contradiction   that is glaring is also that the continent has the highest deposit of natural resources, then why are African youth suffering? In a bid to create lasting change i...

Expanding access to justice through community paralegals Leonida Odongo oct 14, 2019 For many communities access to justice represents a near impossibility because of cost, distance, lack of knowledge and the fear of reprisal.  Paralegals utilise rapport and trust to increase access to justice for their clients. Despite possessing knowledge and expertise in the legal field they engage in diverse responsibilities in their communities. They advise elders and community leaders, assist individuals find lodging in cases of domestic abuse and conduct fact finding for remedies to rights violations.  Participants in this conversation sought a clearer picture of: Who is a paralegal? How to motivate them and ensure they are effective advocates? How they build trust within the communities they serve? How they solve disputes with power imbalances? How to seed their practices in other human rights sectors? Additional Resource Practition...