The right to annoy the state: A Kenyan reckoning with dissent
By Jerameel Kevins Owuor Odhiambo In April 2017, Justice Mwita of the High Court did something quietly radical:... Read more.
Eating the elephant: Governance, corruption, and the Kenyan state’s long war against itself
By Jerameel Kevins Owuor Odhiambo There is a scene in Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People that... Read more.
When the ballot box becomes the Kenyan voter’s most expensive amnesia
By Jerameel Kevins Owuor Odhiambo There is an old proverb that cuts like a panga through the fog... Read more.
The Ballot and the bloodline: How Kenyans conspire against themselves every five years
By Jerameel Kevins Owuor Odhiambo There is a scene in Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People so... Read more.
When the Ivory Tower Builds Its Own Walls and Locks the Gate
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want... Read more.
THE JURISPRUDICIDE OF THE HIGH COURT: Why the Gachagua Judgment is a Constitutional Catastrophe
“Great cases, like hard cases, make bad law.” — Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. By: Jerameel Kevins Owuor... Read more.
A nation that keeps drinking its own poison and calling it medicine
By Jerameel Kevins Owuor Odhiambo There is a peculiar species of political dysfunction that does not announce itself... Read more.
When the flames won’t stop: Kenya’s school dormitory crisis and the safety revolution we can no longer defer
By Jerameel Kevins Owuor Odhiambo The night of 28 May 2026 will be etched into Kenya’s national conscience... Read more.
The republic belongs to us: why active citizenship is Kenya’s only antidote to impunity and broken governance
By Jerameel Kevins Owuor Odhiambo Article 1(1) of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 declares, without ambiguity or qualification,... Read more.
Blind, not blinkered: Why the law must never wear a gendered face
By Jerameel Kevins Owuor Odhiambo One of jurisprudence’s most arresting paradoxes; a paradox that has animated centuries of... Read more.