Episodes
The making of a community organizer
Kamau Wairuri hosts Billian Okoth Ojiwa (@BillianOjiwa) to discuss his work as a community organiser in Kenya. Billian is the founder of the Billian Music Family, a community building organisations based in Mathare in Nairobi...
Financing Development at the grassroots: From Harambee to CDF
Show notes In this episode, Kamau Wairuri hosts Ken Opalo to discuss the financing of development at the grassroots in Kenya. Ken is an Assistant Professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University at Washing...
Kenya’s Foreign Policy in Uhuru Kenyatta’s era
Kamau Wairuri hosts Sylvanus Wekesa to discuss Kenya's Foreign Policy during the presidency of Uhuru Kenyatta (2013 - to date). We have a wide ranging conversation ranging on the impact of President Kenyatta as Kenya's foremo...
The Cost of Politics in Kenya
In this episode, Kamau Wairuri talks to Tom Mboya, a governance consultant, on the cost of politics in Kenya. Our discussion is based on the findings of a study that Tom conducted with Prof Karuti Kanyinga on the topic. The …
The politics of street naming in Nairobi | Kamau Wairuri and Melissa …
In the first episode of The Kenyanist, Kamau Wairuri (host) talks to Melissa Wanjiru-Mwita, a lecturer in Spatial Planning at the Technical University of Kenya in Nairobi. Melissa argues that street names reflect what those i...