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15

2026

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By Makozewe

Broke Nation, Fat Government: The Curse of the Capitalist State

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Kenya is not a poor country—it is a country where poverty has become policy. Agriculture contributes roughly 20% of GDP and employs millions, yet food prices remain painfully high. More than 80% of Kenyan workers survive in the informal economy, often without stable income or social protection, while an estimated 800,000 young people enter the job market every year with too few formal jobs waiting. At the same time, public debt has climbed beyond KSh 11 trillion, and every new budget seems to demand higher taxes instead of higher production. Ordinary Kenyans are told to tighten their belts while the…

The Point of No Return: The Specific ODM Events and Statements That Sealed Edwin Sifuna’s Political Fate

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Edwin Sifuna’s removal from the position of Secretary General of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) was not the product of vague internal discomfort. It was the outcome of a series of concrete political confrontations, public statements, internal disputes, and elite-level calculations that accumulated over months. By the time the National Executive Committee (NEC) met and formally removed him, the decision was less a debate than a ratification of an already hardened elite position within the party. ODM has historically tolerated internal debate. What it has never tolerated is sustained public challenge to leadership authority during periods of strategic transition. Sifuna…

Babu Owino Shouting Into 2027: Mistaking Noise for Power Apocalyptically

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Babu Owino has confused noise for power and confrontation for strategy. In Kenyan politics, that confusion is not a phase—it is a death sentence. As 2027 approaches, Owino is not consolidating power; he is shedding it. He is not expanding alliances; he is narrowing them. This is not a story about betrayal or sabotage. It is about a politician methodically engineering his own isolation while mistaking attention for authority. The fantasy driving this project is simple and seductive: that Owino can inherit the opposition mantle vacated by Raila Odinga through youth symbolism, permanent outrage, and theatrical defiance of party elders.…