With warnings of a cataclysmic El Niño event rife on Kenyan social media, CM adds a few comments and links to the conversation: First, the official Kenyan Meteorological Department advisory. Contrary to some media reporting: It does not predict an El Niño impact in September but in October to December. (Though there was earlier reporting of a general … Continue reading
Harrison Mungai’s editorial for the new issue of CM: It feels odd to be writing a page on the state of the church. It is indeed presumptuous for anyone to suggest that they may somehow have a wholesome grasp of the state of the church at any one given time. The only person in such a position is … Continue reading
The Brainstorm blog, by Michael Onsando and Brenda Wambui, won the best political blog in the Kenyan Blog Awards 2014 and sees itself as a place “to think deeply, eloquently and critically about Kenya and its relation to the world, from within Kenya.” Beginning in March last year they started producing a quarterly e-journal … Continue reading
I’ve often wondered how postmodernism in East Africa differs from Western postmodernism. Wanyeki Mahiaini, former minister for training at All Souls Langham Place, London has carefully studied both cultures and gives a very insightful answer: The picture in Africa is a lot more complex [than in the West] because Africa is one of those places where anything you … Continue reading
According to even secular human rights organisations, Christians are by far the most persecuted religious group globally, experiencing 80% of all acts of religious discrimination, being killed for their faith at a staggering rate of 11 every hour and all this being massively under-reported in the press (Spectator article 5/10/13). Yesterday was another reminder to those of … Continue reading
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