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John Mulaa's Articles in African Insights

Get Africa's history out of explorers' diaries
Perhaps Paul Theroux in his review of the title in the New York Times makes the more general summative point about visitors with attitude to Africa. "A common denominator in this assortment of foreign visitors is the wish to transform themselves while claiming they want to change Africa." This, Africa can do little about. What it its scholars and educators can and should do, is assiduously to revisit what is being passed as truth about the continent's past.
Stock of good ideas shown in World Bank event entries
Anyone doubting Kenya's reservoir of innovative ideas need only look at the list of finalists at the Global Development Marketplace for this year. Of the 104 finalist invited to Washington DC to attend the World Bank organised and supported yearly event, there were nine entries from Kenya, the second highest number after India, a sub-continent of a country with infinitely more people.
Abstract patriotism as displayed in the Diaspora
In the 18th century English author Samuel Johnson asserted that patriotism is the refuge for scoundrels. Many have taken issue with that characterisation and some have added a play of words of their own. Scoundrels, they say, no longer need to seek refuge anywhere; they can be at home right where they are.