Odhiambo Jerameel Kevins

Kenya’s tax reforms are eroding business capital and weakening the foundation of economic growth. Rising taxes and stricter enforcement are squeezing investment, innovation, and working capital. Short-term revenue gains risk long-term losses in jobs, competitiveness, and sustainable growth. Kenya's tax revenue fell short by KES 152.2 billion in the first half of the 2025/26 fiscal year, a deficit that has sent shockwaves...

Kenyan spouses can claim matrimonial property interests in community land, but such claims are limited to use rights and improvements rather than ownership, balancing individual equality with collective tenure. Courts are increasingly crafting creative remedies: monetization, partition of improvements, time-sharing, and community-mediated solutions to harmonize spousal entitlements with communal governance. Legal and constitutional reform is needed to clarify the interaction between...

Kenya’s policing challenge lies not in choosing between security and accountability, but in embedding both within a professional, rights-respecting framework that earns public trust. Historical legacies, resource gaps, political interference, and weak oversight have perpetuated impunity, undermining both police effectiveness and community safety. Sustainable reform demands integrated approaches: training, resources, independent oversight, and community engagement where accountability strengthens, rather than constrains,...

Postgraduate education in Kenya is a long, exhausting struggle marked by poor supervision, financial strain, and endless delays. What should take four years often stretches into a decade, draining students emotionally, economically, and intellectually. The crisis is not about student ability, but a broken system that sets scholars up to fail. Every three out of ten postgraduate students in Kenya will graduate...

Between February and March 2024, approximately 1.9 million people required humanitarian assistance, while 847,000 children under five faced acute malnutrition. Kenya's food import dependency reached 15.5 percent in 2022, up from 13.4 percent the previous year, representing a troubling upward trajectory. True liberation demands restructuring the food system so that Kenyan soil, water, labor, and knowledge primarily serve Kenyan nutritional needs...

Many remain in denial, unable to accept that Baba as millions affectionately called him will no longer walk among us. But such is the nature of death: it takes whom it will, when it will, regardless of our protests or our needs. Raila Odinga's contributions to Kenya's democratic evolution cannot be overstated, for he was among the vanguard who fought...

For decades, Africa has looked outward for solutions, only to remain trapped in dependency and underdevelopment. The continent’s immense wealth and youthful population have been wasted by externally driven agendas that ignore local realities. Africa’s future lies in rejecting borrowed blueprints and boldly investing in its own institutions, leaders, and homegrown solutions. Africa stands at a crossroads. With 1.4 billion people across...

This precedent established what constitutional scholars call the "rights-protective approach" to constitutional interpretation, where courts lean toward expanding rather than restricting fundamental rights. Unlike the minimalist approach taken by some constitutions, which simply guarantee "freedom of assembly," Kenya's Constitution provides granular protection for specific forms of democratic participation including demonstration, picketing, and petition. The ultimate measure of Article 37's success will...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which supplies over 70% of global cobalt production, bears witness to ecological decimation on an industrial scale, with vast tracts of land stripped for mineral access and waterways contaminated beyond remediation. The carbon-intensive reality of EV battery production creates a substantial emissions debt that undermines claims of immediate climate benefits, as manufacturing a single...

A particularly telling example occurred in 1977, when author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o was detained without trial for his play Ngaahika Ndeenda (I Will Marry When I Want), which criticized post-colonial inequalities. Kenya's courts have grappled with balancing expressive freedom against Article 24's limitation principles, producing an evolving jurisprudence that reveals both progress and persistent challenges. Drawing on comparative insights from South...