Yvonne Okwara

May 08, 2026 12:30 (EAT) • 1 day ago

YVONNE'S TAKE: Presidents...and fellow adults

This week, Samia Suluhu Hassan said of activists that “atawapiga mkwaju”, that they would be beaten. During the Gen Z protests, President William Ruto repeatedly framed young protesters as children in need of discipline.

April 23, 2026 11:38 (EAT) • 2 weeks ago

YVONNE'S TAKE: Ukrainian shoe, Iranian foot

In 2022, at Chatham House, then-presidential candidate William Ruto offered what sounded like a principled critique of governance in Kenya. He warned against what he called a “mongrel” system, where the opposition sits in government, and government behaves like opposition.

April 09, 2026 11:40 (EAT) • 4 weeks ago

YVONNE'S TAKE: What does it take to resign in Kenya?

In Canada, a man can lose his job for not speaking the right language at the right time. Not for causing a tragedy. Not for mismanaging a crisis. But for failing to address a nation in both of its official tongues—English and French....

April 02, 2026 11:58 (EAT) • 1 month ago

YVONNE'S TAKE: Of Messianic solutions and risks

It is the steady construction of something resembling a messianic instinct in leadership. The idea that, perhaps, all problems can be solved by one individual. That where institutions falter or are perceived to falter, a single figure can step in, steady the ship, and restore order....

March 26, 2026 11:31 (EAT) • 1 month ago

YVONNE'S TAKE: For once, listen!

In all the noise, in all the response, in all the reassurance — Is anyone listening?

March 12, 2026 11:36 (EAT) • 1 month ago

YVONNE'S TAKE: The drainage race

In Nairobi alone, more than 20 people lost their lives as floodwaters surged through neighbourhoods from Mukuru to South B, sweeping away cars, flooding homes and trapping motorists overnight.

March 06, 2026 12:21 (EAT) • 2 months ago

YVONNE'S TAKE: An Accountant vs School Dropouts

Yet increasingly, one gets the uneasy sense that those who wield power see it differently, as an obstacle to navigate, or worse, an irritation to endure.

February 26, 2026 11:33 (EAT) • 2 months ago

YVONNE'S TAKE: Common Brits, learn!

Following the Peter Mandelson-Epstein saga, serious questions are being asked about whether Prime Minister Keir Starmer exercised, wait for it, poor judgment.

February 19, 2026 11:42 (EAT) • 2 months ago

YVONNE'S TAKE: Kenya's perpetual campaigns tragedy

Under Kenya’s electoral framework, principally the Elections Act, campaigns are not supposed to be permanent. The campaign period is meant to be formally declared by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission.

February 05, 2026 11:49 (EAT) • 3 months ago

YVONNE'S TAKE: The star-studded show

To disburse Ksh.22,500 to individual Kenyans, money that is sent, quite literally, at the press of a button via mobile money transfer.

Yvonne Okwara

YVONNE'S TAKE: Presidents...and fellow adults

YVONNE'S TAKE: Ukrainian shoe, Iranian foot

YVONNE'S TAKE: What does it take to resign in Kenya?

YVONNE'S TAKE: Of Messianic solutions and risks

YVONNE'S TAKE: For once, listen!

YVONNE'S TAKE: The drainage race

YVONNE'S TAKE: An Accountant vs School Dropouts

YVONNE'S TAKE: Common Brits, learn!

YVONNE'S TAKE: Kenya's perpetual campaigns tragedy

YVONNE'S TAKE: The star-studded show

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