2025 Intake Open University of Kenya
2025 Intake Open University of Kenya

Kenya

Beyond the Mace: Understanding the Role of Serjeant-at-Arms in Kenya’s Parliament

Serjeant-at-Arms are the unseen guardians of Parliament, keeping order, security, and protocol at the heart of legislative operations. The 3rd National Serjeant-at-Arms Conference highlighted their evolving role in tackling modern challenges, including technology and misinformation. Investing...

How SHA Claim Rejections Are Undermining Healthcare Financing in Kenya

A healthcare system that rejects legitimate claims because of minor clerical errors is not strengthening accountability; it is quietly weakening the very institutions responsible for saving lives. When hospitals provide real medical care but are...

Kisii University Leads the Charge on Mental Health in Higher Education

Mental wellness is no longer an individual struggle but a shared institutional responsibility, essential for academic success, workplace productivity, and human dignity. By confronting stigma, promoting empathy, and investing in practical support systems, Kisii University...

Reconciling Spousal Rights with Communal Land Ownership under Kenya’s Constitution

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:...

Curriculum Justice for Kenya’s Grade Tens: Why Converting Them to Form Ones Could Save...

Converting Grade Tens to Form Ones is not a setback; it is curriculum justice, giving learners the time and support they need to master foundational knowledge and thrive in Senior School. By taking this bold...

Teething Issues Affecting Post Graduate Students Students in Kenya

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...

The Unfinished Liberation: Why Food Sovereignty Must Be Kenya’s Next Independence Struggle

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...

Street Families Need Our Support and Compassion, Not Punishment

Kenya’s street families, including thousands of children, face extreme deprivation, and society’s neglect fuels survival-driven behaviors often mistaken for criminality. Lack of compassion and support from citizens, parents, and authorities worsens their plight, straining social...

A Colossus Departs: Remembering the Right Honourable Raila Amollo Odinga

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...

Raila Odinga: The Eternal Flame of a Nation

From the dark dungeons of Nyayo House to the grand podiums of continental summits, Raila’s life was a defiance of chains. Raila is gone, but in Prof. Okoth’s words, he becomes immortal, a storm, a...