Yvonne Okwara
104 Articles
YVONNE'S TAKE: Tribute to activists
Let me say this clearly: activism is a form of sacrifice. A choice to fight. Not for one’s children alone, or one’s community alone, but for the collective. For you, for me, for the stranger walking by on the street. That kind of courage, often loud, sometimes unpopular, occasionally disruptive has...
YVONNE'S TAKE: Praying for prayers
What we witnessed wasn’t unity. It wasn’t a reflection. It certainly didn’t feel purposeful. It felt more like ritual than repentance. A carefully choreographed pause between insults. A brief interlude of scripture and song, quickly forgotten in the return to politics as usual....
YVONNE'S TAKE: Hustler Fund, Hustler loss
And now, with billions of shillings in default and the government audaciously seeking to pump in even more money, the mask just may have slipped.
YVONNE'S TAKE: Power through humility
I’ve interviewed hundreds, maybe thousands, of people over the years. Presidents, Prime Ministers, billionaires, Generals. I’ve seen it all, power in full display. Motorcades in V formation, aides scrambling over each other, aggressive attempts to control the intervie...
IMF warns Trump tariffs will hurt global economy
While the IMF does not predict a global recession, the distribution of the impact of the global trade tensions will be uneven based on country-specific vulnerabilities.
YVONNE’S TAKE: Saul to Paul, turncoats trail
The Biblical story begins with a man initially named Saul, Saul of Tarsus, referred to by some as the Pharisee of the Pharisees. As it turns out he was on a mission to the city of Damascus, to arrest and imprison the followers of Jesus Christ and return them to Jerusalem to face punishment....
YVONNE’S TAKE: Development by Executive goodies
it would seem that the successive administrations that were charged with implementing the Constitution are still stuck in the past. From the Uhuru Kenyatta administration to the present, we are witnessing what appears to be a hangover or an attempt to cling nostalgically to days past—a past that Ken...
YVONNE'S TAKE: Incompetence - Who's to blame?
It would seem that the President has been frustrated and sometimes seemingly helpless with his own Cabinet from the very beginning. A Cabinet he himself chose, presumably after careful consideration. And after vetting by a Parliament in which his coalition lays claim to the majority status....
YVONNE'S TAKE: Brian Odhiambo - Does Gov't really care?
There is nothing normal or ordinary about Brian Odhiambo’s mother pleading with a Cabinet Secretary, in tears, having to explain how important her son is to her and how frustrating the search for him has been.
YVONNE'S TAKE: The Constitution in handshake letters
Kenya faced its greatest test of unity—the post-election crisis of 2007-2008—that brought this country face to face with what unity, or disunity, could really mean.And from that very real crisis, the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 was born. Not just any law, but the supreme law of the land....