Felix Kilonzo

Tweet                                             Tweet to @Starkolix                       Follow @Starkolix   (Felix Kilonzo) Kenyans and Africans have several lessons to learn in the just concluded general elections in Kenya where Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta was declared winner. - See more at: According to an article [BBC] by Calestous Juma an International development professor at Harvard University, Africa's democratic transition is back in the spotlight. The concern is no longer the stranglehold of autocrats, but the hijacking of the democratic process by tribal politics. It was evident that Kenyans defied the issues and the policies put forward by the ...

The scandal at the office of the Prime Minister in Uganda may be seen as insignificant but the truth that lies underneath is that the fact that the country that relied on donor funding may be preparing to deviate further to local or domestic borrowing to suppress the fiscal budget of the next year. As a preparedness measure the Finance Minister Maria Kiwanuka will increase the domestic borrowing by 0.7 per cent of the GDP after 5 crucial donors withdrew their budgetary support for the country that saw the embezzlement of close to $13million meant for reconstruction. The donors are said to have withheld their $282million in budget support and what does that mean for Uganda? It will be noted that EAC member states deviated to domestic borrowing in the ongoing financial year which began in July 2012 and its ending in June 2013. The FY2012/13 was meant so because of the ongoing euro zone crisis that according to Mario Draghi who is the president of the European Central Bank, the Euro econo...

Tweet As I sit at my desk my mind is churning furiously and while I have this vision I am not certain what it is all about. My life’s experiences are harsh yet I am convinced that I still have a lot to learn.  I hear many voices discussing great plans for the future and while I sense the urgency; the commitment, I am uncertain and undecided of what is really passing through my mind. You see, it appears as though tomorrow will never come and the days and nights are like the same all year round. Yet these thoughts pervade my mind. What are they? Though uncertain I have this conviction that I smell change; change that will bring maturity in the political arena in Kenya; change that will make president Museveni of Uganda embrace democracy and stop regarding term limits as ‘sheer nonsense.’ Change that will make President Paul Kagame of Rwanda grant the media its own freedom, change that will propel Burundi to appreciate the importance of media operatives thus wo...