Timothy Njoroge

Hassan Omar: Mliita Moi 'passing cloud'. Ruto akichukua mnaanza kusema wantam. Kama vile Moi was not a 'passing cloud' neither is Ruto going to be there for one term. He will serve his two terms.

Central Police Station OCS Dishen Angoya has been released from custody. We are on standby if the Police try to play any games.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o wrote 'Petals of Blood' in 1977 and somehow managed to write about Kenya in 2026. The novel is about four ordinary Kenyans who walk into the promise of independence and find themselves swallowed by a system that replaced the white coloniser with a black one. The faces changed. The exploitation did not. The land that was supposed to belong to the people ended up belonging to a new elite that had simply been waiting its turn at the table. Ngũgĩ called these people the black landlords. The ones who learned the language of liberation and used it to accumulate what liberation was supposed to distribute. Sound familiar. Kenya was promised the land. Kenya got the deed but not the title. The hustler was promised the economy. The economy got a new owner. The youth were promised the future. The future is currently in a broad based government, suits immaculate, silent about the things that matter. In Petals of Blood, the villagers walk miles to the city looking for justice and find only more sophisticated versions of the same oppression they left behind. Every door they knock on belongs to someone who was once like them and forgot. That walk has never ended. Kenyans are still walking. The city is still full of people who forgot where they came from the moment they arrived. Ngũgĩ was jailed for writing this. That alone tells you everything about how accurate it was. Dismas wa Tabu. Dreaming in installments. Billed in full.