Monday, June 16, 2025

Hate Speech Cases against Allan Wadi and MP Moses Kuria Raise Questions on Double Standards

The hate speech case against Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria and the shift to have it resolved out of court as opposed to going...

University Student Allan Wadi gets 2 years Jail Term for Hate Speech on Facebook

  A fourth-year university student will spend two years in jail for posting on social media  insults against President Uhuru Kenyatta. Alan Wadi Okengo, alias Lieutenant...

We need Better Laws in Kenya to better protect Internet Freedoms

As at the end of the year 2014, Kenya status on Interned Freedoms was ‘Free’. According to Freedom House, an independent watchdog organization dedicated...

Arrested Kenyan Blogger Abraham Mutai @ItsMutai released on bond

Following the arrest of Kenyan Blogger Abraham Mutai  who uses the twitter handle @ItsMutai  in Mombasa yesterday, at long last, he has been released...

Nations Develop in an Environment of Freedom

The world as we know it, exists in its current form due to a number of intervening factors and key among them is this;...

A Call to all Kenyans Online to Mark Internet Freedom Day #iFreeKe

January 18th is Internet Freedom Day, an opportunity to reflect on and celebrate our freedom of expression. As a part of the campaign to mark...

Hate speech on Social Media: A Case of Misplaced Locus of Responsibility

  Written by Morris Kiruga Social media only features on our daily plate of bad places to hate on each other because it is sexy. It...

BAKE condemns the Kenyan Government prosecution of Dissident Citizens Online

As an organisation that represents the interest of bloggers and content creators  in Kenya, we the Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE)  are concerned with...

Promoting Online Freedoms in Kenya

Why iFreedoms? Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE) has launched the iFreedoms project through the Kenya Monitor platform (www.monitor.co.ke). This project will promote internet freedom in...

Jukumu Letu Campaign launched in Nairobi to roll out in 47 Counties

Last week on Saturday 10th January, was the launch of the much anticipated Jukumu Letu country wide campaign to sensitize Kenyans on the need...

The Presidential Powers in the New Constitution

Kenya's first constitution was more a replica of British system of governance and ultimately centralized government power to serve the needs of a small...

The Constitution Guards Against Violation Of Human Rights

The respect for human rights is one of the basic postulates for an ideal society that acknowledges the right of all to search for...

Institutional Failure and its Effect on Separation of Powers

In the past of order of things, the president was paramount chief of the land, a patriarch (baba wa taifa) who could neither be...

This is Why the Constitution Matters

  The New Constitution was promulgated on August 27th 2010 and was the culmination of 41 years of protests and lobbying. Kenyans celebrated and the...

Abortion; Is The Right, right?

I walk into a room and my friends are in the middle of a very heated discussion on abortions and how the Kenya Constitution...

To Dehumanize others is to Dehumanize Ourselves

We cannot violate another person’s humanity without violating our own. This realization led to the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by...

The New Constitution Offers Citizens Not Only Rights But Also Responsibilities

The New Constitution was promulgated on 27 August 2010. The image that is probably etched on most Kenyans’ minds from this period is the...

Devolution is the Answer To Marginalisation

Speaking after the passing of the new constitution in 2010, then president Mwai Kibaki said the new constitution would be Kenya’s shield and defender...

A Revolution That gave Power Back to the People

Wherever a civilization has developed, members of that civilization desire to govern themselves, to create order and more conspicuous the allocation of resources- proverbially...

The Mirage of Constitutional Participation In Kenya

Some commentators have referred to Kenya’s 2010 constitution as the most progressive constitution sub-Saharan Africa has ever seen. Well, that might sound a little...

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