Information is the oxygen of democracy. If people do not know what is happening in their society, if actions of those who rule them are hidden, then they cannot take a meaningful part in the affairs of that society. But information is not just a necessity for people- it is an essential part of good government. Bad government needs secrecy to survive. It allows inefficiency, wastefulness and corruption to thrive.Information allows people to scrutinize the actions of a government and is the basis for proper informed debate of those actions. Information includes all records held by a public body, regardless…
Author: David Indeje
David Indeje
David Indeje serves as the community engagement editor at Khusoko, a digital platform covering East African business news. He manages editorial content, engages audiences, and amplifies diverse voices while consulting on digital strategy for brands in agriculture, governance, technology, and health. Indeje explores AI’s impact on journalism and works as a communications officer at KICTANet.
Despite the high birth rate, most of the people do not buy more than one mosquito net, the reason being that the nets are too expensive. This year we celebrate Malaria Day under the theme “Sustain Gains. Save lives. Invest in malaria.” This has been marked since 2000. Financial Times “More than 40 per cent of the world’s population is at risk from malaria with about 500 million cases every year and more than 1 million deaths in sub-Saharan Africa.” According to the World Health Organization, World Malaria Day was instituted at its 60th session in May 2007 as a…
PHOTO BY CZARNY CZLOWIEK Civil wars are wars between groups of citizens of the same nation or country. These have created a state of contention/disagreement between interested parties in a given issue. These can be intra-state or inter-state. Interstate conflicts occur within a nation-state. The contending parties are groups within a nation-state. They involve states that the contending parties are the governments of nation-states as the sovereign guardians of people, whereas, intra-state conflicts are partly a result of the cultural, social and economic conditions of a nation-state. These are differentiated along class lines, communal lines or both resulting in…
John Njoroge Michuki, (December 1932 – February 21, 2012) was not only a business man and a politician, he was an environmentalist.He fought hard for the conservation of the environment since his appointed as an Environment and Mineral resources minister in the Mwai Kibaki government on April 13, 2008.While working in Nairobi then as a journalist, this was one of the most memorable news events I covered where he spoke on the need of conserving the environment for the future generations.“The forest is running away, its getting further and further away. Have you noticed the trees in Kenya are also…
“A family is like a forest when you are outside it is dense, when you are inside you see that each tree has its place.” – Ghana, Akan Having been brought up in the village before, I was introduced to the globalized world, much has changed now. A village that used to have many trees now has been replaced with farmland, it has electric poles, yes, there is light in different homes. The market center has also changed; one can spot a village pub which never used to be there. This is a small example, but I find it sad…
We live in a generation where everyone wants to change. Change is the mission of the youth. They are full of new ideas for a better society. Youths are taxpayers and debt payers at the same time. They pay debts which even were debited before their existence on the earth planet. They are the majority voters with minimal representation in parliament, councils and informal business ownership. Still, they are the catalyst for change! They are the engine for change in politics, economy, social, governance, peace and security. With all these obstacles, there is still a big hope; the role of…