A constitution usually reflects the values that a people hold dear and wish to live by. Some of these values will reflect the country's own history and experience. Others are widely recognized as positive forces in most ...

It is true that we may have the best-written bill of rights in the world, but if the state organs, institutions and leaders at all levels and every individual in the country are not committed and do not pay serious attention ...

The circulation of information and ideas should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open. No politician should be permitted to silence his or her critics. It is a matter of the most fundamental importance that such criticism ...

Why reflect on memories when they hurt? Why think of the bad things of the past when you have today to live? In his Sonnet 30, Shakespeare speaks of regrets, disappointments and missed opportunities. He speaks of unpleasant ...

The ghost is haunting our chief justice, after the 2017 August elections and the clear assurance of Raila Odinga that he would be going to the Supreme Court to seek redress, the ghost that chief justice emeritus, Willy ...

Michael Paulsen in his ‘the Constitution of necessity’1 argued that we ought to interpret/ construe the constitution in a manner that would avoid a "constitutional implosion." By this, he meant that the law of ...

Having correctly described our constitution as transformative and revolutionary has the judiciary stood up to our constitutional leitmotifs? is the jurisprudence from our courts encouraging?, how have our courts adjudicated ...

If the promises of the 2010 constitution are to mean anything to the ‘Hohe hahe’, the Dalits or the wanjiku then the court(s) or judges must be responsive. Put it differently, if the desires and aspirations that Kenyans ...

Land is an emotive subject in Kenya. The 2010 constitution provides for an entire chapter on land. Whereas land grabbing is not protected by the constitution, the power to determine the lawfulness of title deeds does not ...

The right of recall as provided for in the 2010 Kenyan constitution is a right that I can equate to a seedling, that it solely depends to the farmer, it is the farmer who can decide as to whether to let it flourish or let ...