Kenyans must defend the right to protest in all legitimate forms and those who used pigs in the recent Occupy Parliament demonstrations are free to do so, just as those who choose other means have the right to express their views

Kenyans must defend the right to protest in all legitimate forms and those who used pigs in the recent Occupy Parliament demonstrations are free to do so, just as those who choose other means have the right to express their views

Following its rejection of CAL’s (Coalition of African Lesbians) application for observer status, L. Muthoni Wanyeki of the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) petitions the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) to ‘provide leadership in the protection and promotion of the human rights of sexual minorities in Africa’.

Following the visit of President Omar al-Bashir to Nairobi, L. Muthoni Wanyeki finds Kenya’s welcoming of Sudan’s president ‘unbelievable’.

Following the approval of Kenya’s new constitution, L. Muthoni Wanyeki discusses the constitutional referendum voting process, the road to the new constitution, and what must happen next to ensure the new constitution is observed.

The World Cup has come to an end and the vuvuzelas have gone quiet, leaving us to pause and reflect on South Africa’s month under the floodlights on the big sporting stage. L. Muthoni Wanyeki looks back on the competition and the respite it provided from the daily stresses life presents, whilst contemplating what the games have left South Africa and the rest of the world to move forward with into the future.

In the wake of a recent Amnesty International report on crime and insecurity in Nairobi's low-income areas, L. Muthoni Wanyeki discusses the problems of safety and the broader context of judicial and police deficiencies which produces them.

A visit to a museum in Nigeria’s Kano state, the contemporary debate on ‘illegal immigration’ in the US and Israel’s attack on a humanitarian aid flotilla attempting to break the blockade on Gaza prompt L. Muthoni Wanyeki to realise how much her contemporary understanding of global ‘dynamics and tensions’ has overtaken her own ‘sense of history and its timelines’.