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10 published articles

• Commentary · 2026-09-26

  The Party Is Also a Map: Kenya’s 2027 Contest for Citizen Power

  How parties, nominations and coalitions shape citizen power in Kenya’s 2027 election, across government-aligned formations, opposition organisations, emerging movements and citizens outside those camps.

• Commentary · 2026-09-25

  Real Business Is in Policy (Part VII): The Tender Begins Before the Tender

  How tax concessions, financing and equipment-use rules can affect contractor competition, and what evidence is needed to assess public value.

• Commentary · 2026-09-23

  Real Business Is in Policy (Part VI): Finance the Learning. Prove the Capability.

  Financing opens the school gate. Capability is proved when skill, experience, credentials and a first chance can be shown, not when money alone has been counted.

• Commentary · 2026-09-23

  Real Business Is in Policy (Part V): Who Owns the Gate to Opportunity?

  Placement and funding begin the journey. Learning, assessment, credentials and access to work depend on further decisions. Who makes those gates fair?

• Commentary · 2026-09-23

  Real Business Is in Policy (Part IV): The School Gate and the Debt Ledger

  Kenya’s education funding reform asks who gains access today, who repays tomorrow, and who carries the risk when education does not immediately become income.

• Commentary / Case Simulation · 2026-09-04

  The Kenya Sugar Belt: Leasing, Capability and the Ledger Nobody Can See

  Four state sugar mills were leased, not sold, in May 2025. Farmer payments and milling have improved at some sites; disclosure, worker arrears and creditor claims remain unresolved. This fact-checked case asks whether leasing has produced capability, or only a change of gatekeeper.

• Commentary / Case Simulation · 2026-09-04

  Pan Paper Mills, Webuye: Industrial Revival or Industrial Capability?

  Pan Paper Mills collapsed in 2009 and failed a state-backed revival in 2010. Since 2016, Rai Group has rebuilt it around recycled fibre. This fact-checked commentary and governance simulation asks what would actually prove capability rather than repeat an announcement.

• Commentary / Case Simulation · 2026-09-04

  The Magadi Test: When Sovereignty Must Become Capability

  Kenya is right to demand more value from Lake Magadi. The real test is whether it can enforce accountability and build downstream industry without replacing one opaque arrangement with another.

• Commentary · 2026-08-01

  The Candidate Is Also a Map: Sifuna and the Test of a Civic Movement

  Citizen TV’s The Explainer presented Edwin Sifuna as Kenya’s “man of the moment.” But the more important question is whether his political moment can become a civic movement, one capable of organising citizens around shared values and problems rather than merely rearranging Kenya’s familiar ethnic blocs.

• Commentary · 2026-07-31

  The Map Is Also a Ballot: Rethinking Kenya’s Constituencies to Defeat Negative Ethnicity

  Kenya’s electoral boundaries do more than determine where citizens vote. They influence who politicians must persuade, who is treated as an outsider and whether elections reward civic coalitions or ethnic fortresses.