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Yvonne Okwara

Yvonne Okwara

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YVONNE'S TAKE: Africa do unto others
May 14, 2026 11:58 (EAT) • 1 week ago

YVONNE'S TAKE: Africa do unto others

Climate negotiations routinely expose a painful imbalance: Africa contributes the least to global emissions, yet suffers some of the worst consequences.

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YVONNE'S TAKE: Presidents...and fellow adults
May 08, 2026 12:30 (EAT) • 2 weeks 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. 

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YVONNE'S TAKE: Ukrainian shoe, Iranian foot
April 23, 2026 11:38 (EAT) • 1 month 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. 

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YVONNE'S TAKE: What does it take to resign in Kenya?
April 09, 2026 11:40 (EAT) • 1 month 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....

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YVONNE'S TAKE: Of Messianic solutions and risks
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....

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YVONNE'S TAKE: For once, listen!
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?

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YVONNE'S TAKE: The drainage race
March 12, 2026 11:36 (EAT) • 2 months 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.

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YVONNE'S TAKE: An Accountant vs School Dropouts
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.

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YVONNE'S TAKE: Common Brits, learn!
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.

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YVONNE'S TAKE: Kenya's perpetual campaigns tragedy
February 19, 2026 11:42 (EAT) • 3 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. 

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