Today marks 40 years since Kenya’s founding father Mzee Jomo Kenyatta’s death. From outside parliament buildings where the Kenyatta family and other government officials are expected to lay a wreath ...

On an account of his poor grades, missionary teachers at the Thogoto Church of Scotland Mission Station thought Kamau wa Ngengi, who was born in Ng’enda, Gatundu, in the early 1890s, didn't have a ...

Africans have a superstitious horror of the chameleon, which in Kikuyu is pronounced kipu. It so happens that the initials of Leftist Oginga Odinga’s nascent opposition party, the Kenya People’s Union ...

When the British sent Firebrand Jomo Kenyatta to jail eight years ago for starting the Mau Mau revolt, they thought they were putting “Burning Spear” away for good. To offset any lingering loyalty ...