Call it as you see it!

Life would never have been this better without internet, and more importantly social media. Today, almost everyone is completely connected and has a chance to create and share platforms with the world or, so to say, with people who share common interests. With the internet, we have a medium that allows us to social network and spice up our lives, which could be otherwise so miserable. While we are happy with social networking, it is important to ask ourselves the question whether we are willing to be the same person, online as offline, or whether we want to have two personalities; online and offline. It is a kind of a dilemma, since it is hard to be fake (being someone you are not), or having to share each and every aspect of one’s life, even private, on social media. It is therefore a personal choice to choose what kind of a person they want to be online. If one feels comfortable sharing their true selves with the whole world or to be less open, it is wise to do so knowing that th

We have witnessed in the past few days, what we would call the highest level of political prostitution and infidelity by our politicians. In a quest to beat the coalition deadline, Politicians have been running like headless chicken trying to make sure they are at least ‘somewhere’.  Many of us have been shocked by the outcome, although we had heard and seen it all before; those who think they are reformers saying they would never work with non-reformers and those who were once greatest foes and vowed never to work together finally forming   alliances. Who would have ever thought, for example, that Mama Rainbow would have ended up joining forces with a man whose hand she has refused to shake on several occasions or that? This was a clear indication that very few leaders, if there are any, have the interests of Kenyans at heart; they are all doing it to satisfy their own selfish interests. Over the years, Kenya has been governed by men, and we haven’t had any single woman ho