Yvonne Okwara
124 Articles
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.
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'S TAKE: Healthcare, who really cares?
In recent weeks, we have seen disturbing reports of medical malpractice that should trouble every one of us. A man who went in for a routine dental procedure and never walked out alive. A woman forced to carry a dead foetus in her womb for days at a sub-county hospital, ignored, mistreated, humiliat...
YVONNE'S TAKE: Kenyans are not resisting development, it's leadership without trust
Kenya cannot simply borrow Singapore's ambition without investing in trust as its foundation. Citizens will not leap into high-stakes reforms if they feel unheard, dismissed, or misled. Development without trust becomes coercion, and coercion always meets resistance.
YVONNE'S TAKE: When pulpit becomes a podium
But in recent times, something has changed. More often than not, that pulpit has quietly been recast as a campaign podium, a stage for political performance disguised in the language of faith.
YVONNE'S TAKE: November 27th to 2027
Everywhere you turn, leadership is on the stump: in churches, in markets, at funerals, at roadside stops. There seems to be no gathering too small, no moment too sacred, no community too weary to be pulled into yet another political performance....
YVONNE'S TAKE: East Africa Trinity of Terror
It’s the silence we’ve heard for nearly a month now over the disappearance of Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo in Uganda — two Kenyans who crossed a border and vanished into a system that refuses to acknowledge they were ever in its grip.
YVONNE'S TAKE: Kiambu - Between life and death
For more than 130 days now, doctors in Kiambu County have been on strike — that’s over four months of strained hospitals, absent care, and mothers turned away when they need help the most. During that time, newborns have died.
YVONNE'S TAKE: Kenya vs. Singapore - Why talk can’t do the work
First, the hard numbers. In 2024, Kenya’s GDP per capita was about US$2,206 (Ksh.285,677). Singapore’s was roughly US$88,500 (Ksh.11.4 million). That’s around forty times higher.
YVONNE'S TAKE: Partiless parties of Kenya
UDA, which swept into power in 2022, enjoying 38% support, is now down to 16% — a reduction by more than half!The same applies to ODM, which was once at 32% but is now at 13%. The single largest category? “Undecided or none” — at a whopping 43%.