tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75809432024-03-16T21:52:13.408+03:00Kenya Democracy ProjectProvides well-researched analytical, often humourous takes on political, economic, social, cultural, technological and ideological issues and struggles that have to do with Kenya, Africa and the world from a progressive world outlook....Anything goes in terms of topics- from literature to comedy to relationships...Kenya Democracy Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10426575211492118795noreply@blogger.comBlogger329125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7580943.post-42097348217013956762017-08-06T07:35:00.001+03:002017-08-06T07:35:47.726+03:00DRAFT Katiba of the KCP
1. NAME
The name of
the organization shall be the Kenyan
Communist Party (KCP).
2. SYMBOL AND FLAG
The symbol of
The Kenyan Communist Party shall be
a black star containing a gold hammer and sickle. The flag of the Kenyan Communist Party shall be red. politic,
green and black with the symbol placed in the top left-hand corner.
3. AIMS
3.1 The Kenyan Communist Party strives to be
Kenya Democracy Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10426575211492118795noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7580943.post-58749448132014642612017-08-06T07:22:00.000+03:002017-08-06T07:22:12.484+03:00DRAFT Programme of the KCP
DRAFT
Programme of the Communist Party of Kenya
PREFACE:
The
following draft programme of the Kenya Communist Party is the outcome of an ongoing process of
discussion, debate and reflection which has often elicited feisty, robust and
frank comradely fisticuffs among a group of Kenyans who are united by their
vision of a new Kenya that is more
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A Digital Essay by Onyango Oloo
There
are a number of superb Kenyan journalists-Alex Chamwada, Uduak Amimo, Anne
Mawathe,Musau wa Nzau, Mukalo wa Kwayera,Gitahi Ngunyi, Kwamcheti Makokha,Tony
Mochama, Mohamed Juma Njuguna, Wanjiru Kinoti, Wycliffe Muga, Kevin Mwachiro-
this list is not complete; not mentioning a handful of veterans like Philip Ochieng’,Mutegi NjauKenya Democracy Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10426575211492118795noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7580943.post-48530109224141055302016-09-02T13:06:00.001+03:002016-09-03T11:08:51.166+03:00Philip Murgor: Watch this space!<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Kenya Democracy Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10426575211492118795noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7580943.post-85601533131774174052016-08-19T21:40:00.002+03:002016-08-20T10:51:04.198+03:00Happy Birthday to Someone I Know Well
I
turned 56, today, Friday August 19, 2016.
Happy
birthday to me, David Onyango Oloo.
It was not always obvious I would live to see this day-and for that I say thanks.
I
could have died in a hail of GSU bullets on Sunday, August 1, 1982, when as a
very naïve first year University of Nairobi undergraduate I was among a throng
of enthusiastic students trooping past the police headquartersKenya Democracy Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10426575211492118795noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7580943.post-28764252930068823452016-05-01T11:10:00.005+03:002016-05-01T13:53:34.466+03:00Arrest the Culprits Behind the Nairobi Floods! a digital essay by Onyango Oloo in the Kenyan capital
Our deepest condolences to the families, relatives, friends and associates of all those who died, were injured or lost their homes and/or other property at Huruma. Our hearts also go out to to those Nairobians who lost their lives or were in in way or another caught up in the ongoing floods.
While it is certainly Kenya Democracy Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10426575211492118795noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7580943.post-45621663076838788942016-04-22T13:25:00.003+03:002016-04-25T12:44:16.036+03:00Kenyan Homage to a Global Musical Prince
by Onyango Oloo
Kenyans of a certain age, like their contemporaries around the world, have a reason for floods of tears flowing, spasms of weeping and profound sadness.
I am referring especially to those of us who were in our teens and our early twenties in the late seventies and early eighties.
Everyone dies; we all expire; we all get buried at some Kenya Democracy Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10426575211492118795noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7580943.post-38799332148055732852016-02-06T19:14:00.000+03:002016-02-07T11:34:26.300+03:00Maurice White Rejoins Ancestors
A tribute from Nairobi by Onyango Oloo
This is a question I am posing to my fellow Kenyans.
Who was the leader of a globally famous soul, funk group; bandleader and producer of most of
Earth, Wind and Fire's albums;
Who earned
legendary status winning six Grammy Awards out of a staggering fourteen nominations, an NAACP Hall of Fame Award, a Kenya Democracy Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10426575211492118795noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7580943.post-26066497953470525292015-12-20T14:21:00.002+03:002015-12-20T15:01:34.636+03:00Nairobi WTO talks-a setback for Africa?
By Onyango Oloo, Mazingira Institute
Finally the 10th Ministerial talks on the WTO are finally over.
According to the Nairobi-based Standard newspaper:
Africa’s big win on agriculture as curtains fall on Nairobi WTO summit Kenya and other poor countries left the grueling talks of the World Trade Organisation with major wins on agriculture despite stiff Kenya Democracy Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10426575211492118795noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7580943.post-13392020541056215092015-12-19T14:55:00.004+03:002015-12-19T14:59:43.806+03:00Some KOT members Swallow Imperialist Drivel By Onyango Oloo, Mazingira Institute
On Friday, December 18, 2015 a hashtag on the Nairobi 10th WTO Ministerial meeting almost went viral:
#India blocks talks
Progressive activists monitoring the machinations of the US, the EU and her allies in the Kenya capital trying to manipulate the Third World nations immediately saw it for what it was:
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A Tribute, by Onyango Oloo in Nairobi
First of all, here is an excerpt from Cyprian Fernandes' blog.
Cyprian Fernandes is a Kenya-born, Australia-based
journalist, among the first employed by the Nation Group of Newspapers.
He was the paper's Chief Reporter. He began as a sports reporter and
quickly moved to General News, Politics, Investigative journalism and
social Kenya Democracy Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10426575211492118795noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7580943.post-73302430951894057212014-09-25T09:08:00.001+03:002014-09-25T09:08:42.307+03:00Kenyan Poet Shailja Patel: Mochama Sexually Assaulted Me
http://jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/9193/kenyan-shailja-mochama-sexually-assaulted
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Onyango Oloo Remembers
I am among the multitudes of Africans around the world who are thrilled that Kenya's own Lupita Nyong'o
is among the 2014 Oscar nominees for her star turn in 12 Years a Slave. I am rooting for her to grab a statuette in the upcoming big night in Hollywood.
Long before she became the buzz of Tinsel Town however, Lupita Nyong'o was a Kenya Democracy Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10426575211492118795noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7580943.post-43414406794223948552014-01-13T00:35:00.001+03:002014-04-13T13:52:14.924+03:00Onyango Oloo Testifies Before the TJRC, April 2012Kenya Democracy Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10426575211492118795noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7580943.post-70238553633593422882013-11-13T08:08:00.001+03:002013-11-13T09:33:05.672+03:00 Jubilee to Rule Kenya for the Next 20 Years?<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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A
Socialist Interrogation by
Onyango Oloo
We have read and heard people
like Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, Robert Mugabe
of Zimbabwe and Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya call the ICC an imperialist,
even a Kenya Democracy Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10426575211492118795noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7580943.post-86293061473945060752013-10-19T15:50:00.000+03:002013-10-23T20:27:02.304+03:00UhuRuto Must Keep Going to the Hague!<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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