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

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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...
First-year students at the University of Embu during a past registration exercise, a reminder that access is not enough. Kenya must go beyond lowering fees and focus on reforming higher education to deliver relevance, skills, and opportunity. PHOTO/University of Embu.

Lowering University Fees Won’t Save Higher Education in Kenya

Education policy in Kenya is often driven by slogans and electoral timelines rather than by a sustained national strategy. The government must stop treating education like a vote-harvesting gimmick. Policy must be grounded in realism...

Kenya’s Development Deadlock: Why Slogans Can’t Build a Nation

Political promises change with each election, but national development must be anchored in continuity. Development goals should be negotiated and agreed upon across political lines. History won’t remember our manifestos. It will remember what we built...

Don’t Betray the Learner: Why Kenya Must Protect Free Education at All Costs

The issue at hand is not just about budgets and numbers; it is about Kenya’s moral, constitutional, and developmental obligation to provide quality, accessible education to every child. Parliament must revisit and restore the full...

The Democratic Cornerstone: A Constitutional Analysis of Article 37 of Kenya’s Constitution

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...