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ACCESS TO EDUCATION: Information Communication and Technology the way forward
(Opinions)
21-09-2006
by Mbũrũ Kamau
Introduction
Education as a basic, inalienable and human right empowers the society to directly control its own life wholly. Being intelligent and social animals, human beings have the ability to reflect and prioritise on their needs in...
An Ethiopian Story
(Short Story)
28-07-2006
by Mbũrũ Kamau
There was once a king called King Firdy, the Just. He called himself the Just because he was proud of his fairness in all judgements. When he seized the throne, King Firdy decreed that anybody who spoke against him would be roasted over a slow...
Another Possible Morning
(Poetry)
5-08-2005
by Mbũrũ Kamau
The morning of your permanent sleep
Caught us unawaress, lest expected
We thought you had come to liberate
Silence the crying children
Orphaned by the dealdly war
That ravaged through the land
for decades unblinkingly
We heard your plane...
Desperate… But Somehow Manage to Live On!
(Poetry)
27-02-2007
by Mbũrũ Kamau
The evening wind, gracefully blowing toward the west,
Running after the lazy withdrawing shadows
Without hasting to look back
In the vanities of the nature
Somehow, under desperate eagerness, we manage to move on!
Then under...
Education For All: Is it Achievable?
(Opinions)
5-08-2005
by Mbũrũ Kamau
Since the declaration of Education for All in January 2003, substantial amount of resources, both human and financial have been allocated, which saw an increase in the enrolment ratios.
The achievement of free basic education was applauded by...
Education For All: Is it Really Achievable?
(Opinions)
1-08-2006
by Mbũrũ Kamau
Since the declaration of Education For All in January 2003, a substantial amount of resources, both human and financial, have been allocated and an increase in the enrolment ratios has followed.
The achievement of free basic education was...
Endless Flow
(Short Story)
5-09-2006
by Mbũrũ Kamau
She stole my heart as my genuine friend. I could not but help to refer to her as a person I could not live without. Christine was an extraordinary figure who many could envy. When we became friends during our college days, she was a blank page in...
Female Education: Assessing and Overcoming Social Setbacks
(Opinions)
12-05-2005
by Mbũrũ Kamau
Educating a woman, so goes the mantra, is liberating a nation. However, when the social imbalances favour only one group at the expense of the other, the implications are usually sad and sometimes irreversible. Over centuries, women have been...
Independence
(Opinions)
14-09-2006
by Mbũrũ Kamau
When we hear of the word ‘independence’, what comes into our minds? What does it imply to us on a daily basis?
Independence means autonomous, liberated, neutral, non-aligned, self-determining and self-governing or sovereign. It could also mean...
Keeping Peace
(Opinions)
20-02-2008
by Mbũrũ Kamau
The right to life is inalienable to an individual’s liberty and security. Yet conflicts and insecurity occur at many levels of the society between individuals, politicians, military, civil society, the family; between nations and superpowers.
All...
Keeping Peace... Options
(Opinions)
18-02-2008
by Mbũrũ Kamau
The right to life is inalienable to an individual’s liberty and security. Yet conflicts and insecurity occur at many levels of the society between individuals, politicians, military, civil society, the family; between nations and superpowers.
All...
Leave Things As They Are
(Short Story)
5-09-2006
by Mbũrũ Kamau
I do not know why she had to kill herself. We loved each other so much despite our age difference. I was still trying to figure out whether to go for one among the many when she quickly bumped into me and openly declared her love for me. At first,...
Lonely Hunter
(Poetry)
27-02-2007
by Mbũrũ Kamau
Lonely hunter
In the vast Savannah, brown and whistling
It resuscitated self and stretched the long folded arms
In the middle of a land full of treachery
And thought it might not be buried again
Without accomplishing the virtue...
Our Leaders: Can anything good come out of them?
(Opinions)
28-07-2006
by Mbũrũ Kamau
Some 2000 years ago, a contemptuous inquiry on the honour of Nazareth is recorded in the book of John: “And Nathaniel said to Phillip, ‘can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?’ Phillip said: ‘Come and see.’
Nathaniel’s inquiry can be...
SECRETS
(Poetry)
3-05-2007
by Mbũrũ Kamau
I have been waiting for your heart’s decision and acceptance
Hoping, waiting and full of expectations
Without opening the minute fears in me
I only waited for your heart’s secrets
To openly exercise the usual
The evening orange moon watched...
The Pain of Love
(Poetry)
18-04-2007
by Mbũrũ Kamau
All the time the world mentions this four letter word
And the gruesome acts done on the most innocent victims
Who have no say in the world politics,
It takes me more pain than joy,
To mention that love exists.
The mysteries that one...
This is no Fly-by Play, Face it or Wither
(Opinions)
8-02-2008
by Mbũrũ Kamau
Anastaciah (not her real name) is sixteen, but she knows much more than some people older than her. At her age, she should be in high school like her age-mates. Instead, she spends most of her day sleeping, only to wake up later in the evening for...
Where are the footsteps?
(Poetry)
27-02-2007
by Mbũrũ Kamau
Where are the footsteps?
I followed my shadow, living in the benevolence of my heart
Asking for the humanity to have a human face
Not to terrorise the disabled
I climbed the highest mountain,
Shouted at the top of my voice...
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