Charles Onyango-Obbo
No image available
/ 12 January 2007

Somalia’s invaders will be routed

Nearly 15 years ago the United States sent troops to Somalia to ”restore order”. Their landing was a spectacle orchestrated for the cameras. Somalia was then more divided than it is today, split up into small turfs ruled mostly by bandit warlords, writes Charles Onyango-Obbo, managing editor at the Nation Media Group in Nairobi.

No image available
/ 2 November 2004

Africa needs a Nobel Prize in science

When the announcement came that Kenyan assistant environment minister Wangari Maathai had won the Nobel Peace Prize, I was in far off lands. At a party the following day, quite a number of folk who had had their fair share of wine were staggering up to where I was seated, pointing at me, and shouting: ”Wangari Maathai”. With that, they would stagger off. People didn’t need to say more to make their point.