By Wahome Ngatia When Kenyan entrepreneur Chris Kirubi died in
The May 13 deadline is not a bureaucratic inconvenience. It is the moment Kenya’s civil society separates the institutions built to last from the ones built to invoice. When that date passes, the government’s collaboration language will mean something concrete for those who registered, restructured, and showed up — and absolutely nothing for those who did not.
The list spans a sobering breadth of violations: extrajudicial killings, torture, enforced disappearances and abductions, sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), arbitrary evictions, loss of property, and loss of livelihoods.
Buckner Kenya stands as one of the continent’s more quietly formidable NGOs, a two-time winner of the NGO Awards’ Best in Education category, and a case study in what principled leadership can accomplish across a quarter century.
When Buckner Kenya marked its 25th anniversary in February, it had a story worth telling — not just of longevity, but of reinvention.
By Wahome Ngatia There is a particular kind of silence
Fifi Ruhara loved books. Her family built a foundation so that love could outlive her. A Swedish author sent 38 copies of his book to a school in Nairobi. Philanthropists flew across the world to deliver ten desks. None of this was inevitable. All of it began with one person deciding to show up.
When António Guterres announced the appointment of Monica Juma as Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna, the statement was brief but unmistakably emphatic.
The United Nations Secretary-General described the Kenyan diplomat as “a strategic senior leader with a depth of expertise, experience and knowledge spanning public policy making, execution and academia across critical areas of security, diplomacy and governance.”
By Wahome Ngatia In an era when democratic backsliding often
The clock is ticking on a legal transformation three decades
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