By Jeffrey Dransfeldt jdransfeldt@theacorn.com BETTER LIFE—Larry Hines, right, visits in 2007 with Lucy, an orphan from Kenya, whom he...

By Wanja Gathu Little Kevin came home from school one day to find his father gone. His car was not in the garage and his closet had been...

Kenya has traditions and one of the most important is associated with “jumping the year” or “making the year jump.” This is a social...

By ROBERT MWANGI In Summary Former Kenyan student in the US reveals the trials foreigners have to go through to live and work in the land...

INSET:Maj Mutua in a plane’s cockpit before the coup attempt of 1982 and his widow Becky (centre) with her children. Photos/FILE and...

BY JUDIE KABERIA (CAPITAL Fm) NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 6 – “I want to forgive them, because I want peace. There is nothing else that can give...

Today is my first working day of the year and the events of the last three days have jolted me rather harshly into the New Year. I left...

By Tony Karanja jambonewspot.com Being a new year, I must say “hongera” to my fellow Kenyans as we have been blessed with many talents....

Although Kenya has produced some successful artistes, none of them have managed to penetrate the US and European markets like A-list...

George Obama sits in front of his home in a slum in Nairobi, Kenya By George Obama | NEWSWEEK Published Jan 2, 2010 From the magazine...

By Macharia wa Gakuru It must have been around 20 hrs. I had just come from my bathroom and I had my washing towel round my waist. I had...

By Alex Kiprotich With parents being too choosy on who their children have to marry, four people have started cashing in on the situation...

By Joyce Wanja They are unloved, if not ignored, viewed with suspicion and, in the words of one boy, left on their own to figure out...

By Robyn Dixon January 1, 2010 Reporting from Nairobi, Kenya The crescent moon of the railway track divides the slum, a metal slash in...

Some of the Kenyan musicians who have dominated the local scene. From left: Jua Cali, Eric Wainaina and Wahu. Photo/FILE It is almost...

NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 27 – When most people leave Kenya for the United States of America it is usually out of their own accord and for two...

Of late, there have been reports in the media concerning the inhuman plight of overseas Kenyan labourers, especially those in the Arabian...

Living in a Nairobi slum, she adds a newborn found in a plastic bag to her brood of four children and seven orphans. The problem of...

Shops were destroyed on Monday at Muthithi trading centre in Kigumo in an attack blamed on Mungiki gangsters. Kigumo is one of the areas...

There’s no snow in the tropics, and Santa doesn’t come down chimneys. But my tribesmen in Kenya, the Kikuyu, are for the most part...