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ODM’s Leadership Meltdown: A Crisis Rooted in Ideological Bankruptcy

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The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) finds itself entangled in an existential crisis that has little to do with ideology, policy, or national vision, and everything to do with political opportunism, ethnic anxieties, and succession battles. The bitter dispute over the party’s disputed leadership elections in Mombasa, the conflicting positions on whether to remain in President William Ruto’s broad-based government, and the absence of any coherent programme beyond Raila Odinga’s 10-point agreement, all expose a deeper reality: ODM is not fractured because of divergent political philosophies, but because it has no ideological anchor. Its leaders are not debating the future of…

August 1st: 43 Years After the Coup, Kenya Is Still Stuck in a Capitalist Dead End

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Celebrating a Coup That Shook a Dictatorship, Yet Failed to Dismantle It On August 1st, 1982, a group of Kenya Air Force servicemen led by Senior Private Hezekiah Ochuka and Sergeant Pancras Oteyo Okumu attempted to overthrow the regime of Daniel arap Moi, a man who had entrenched a brutal one-party dictatorship under the Kenya African National Union (KANU). Through the self-declared People’s Redemption Council, the coup leaders sought to end a regime defined by corruption, tribalism, dictatorship, human rights violations, unemployment, and political marginalisation—all hallmarks of the Kenyan capitalist state. The coup ultimately failed, but its motivations remain strikingly…

Betrayal, Blood and Blindness: Kenya’s Ethnic Tragedy and the Class War We Refuse to Fight

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When the Hunters Become the Hunted: The Kikuyu Tragedy and the Politics of Amnesia In a cruel twist of history’s irony, the Kikuyu—once custodians of state power and beneficiaries of its coercive arsenal—now find themselves bleeding in the streets, felled by the very bullets that once silenced the cries of others. Today, their youth lie prostrate beneath the boots of the same police force that was unleashed on Luo protesters in Kisumu, Kibera, and Kondele for over a decade. And yet, when Luos wailed over state violence, property destruction was cited as justification, and their funerals were met with indifference,…