BLOGS FROM THE MOUNTAIN

Photo credit/ Source: Morara Kebaso   By Thomas Chemelil Literary works, as has been the case world over, have had an uncanny way of reflecting our everyday realities. To put it aptly, Literature has been aptly described as the mirror with which societies look at their own selves. The tragedy always, as my great lecturer at Maseno Adalo Moga puts it, has been  that we have always misused our mirrors as societies: every morning, we have stripped ourselves naked and placed our mirrors on our front to admire the beauty of our faces forgetting to put them at our backsides to witness the folly of our ugly hindside! It is this ugly hind side that Lawyer Morara Kebaso is shining a bright torch on. In fact, Morara Kebaso has elevated himself to the realm of John Lara's The Samaritan. One can aptly say that Morara, like Alvita and Montano, is confronting the ghosts of corruption bedevilling country Kenya with the vicious energy it deserves. In Lara's fictional world, two students from ...

By Thomas Chemelil Like good wine, Gladys Kemboi Wilson has grown finer with age. She is an alumni of the great school reknown for instilling champion mentality in its students, St. Francis Kimuron High School. Gladys has been awarded by the Graduate School of Business of Illinois as the 2024 DPC Preservation Award for her work which advocates for use of digital platforms to preserve indige- nous knowledge that can be used to mitigate against climate change issues. She has been a passionate advocate of climate issues and has always sought for ways to tap into indigenous knowledge on the issue in order to bring on board all people in the fight to reverse its effects. Prior to 2015, Kimuron still admitted girls. Gladys took her chance well to make the school proud in academia. She is now pursuing her PhD at Illinois. To date, she remains a great role model to many students at the school. Gladys is proud of Kimuron and has always been at the forefront of celebrating every little success f...

photo/Source: DP Gachagua at meeting journalists. By Thomas Chemelil In his masterpiece An Enemy of the People, Henrik Ibsen aptly describes the predicament of one individual in the face of a compact majority that fails to heed to the dictates of truth. DP Rigathi Gachagua seems to face the same predicament as Dr.Stockmann as he faces a parliament that has already made up its mind.  Tragically, like an obstinate bull, the DP has continued to hit his head against the hard wall of parliament. The consequence will definitely be his own bleeding to death. The DP should realize the futility of his fight as the odds are against. If I were to advise DP Gachagua, I would tell him to resign in order to fight another day. the die has been cast and he has no room to take chances with a parliament that has made up its mind.