The memories I will carry to my grave. Dad sending me some upkeep money while at the Kenya School of Law and saying POLE on his behalf and that of my mother for shida za Nairobi ❤️❤️
To celebrate the judicial halt to constitutional dismembering, I had this dismembered chicken with Ugali (dismembered maize) and traditional vegetables for a late lunch. A very constitutional meal.
Glad to be part of the induction of the 4th Senate. I will reflect on 10 years of the Senate, and the state of Intergovernmental relations and the role of Senate.
My article that I published in the African Journal on Comparative Constitutional Law was cited in a judgment of the Supreme Court of Kenya. Grateful 🙏🙏
After ten years of implementing devolution, it is time, I think, for a dedicated multi-disciplinary Masters and PhD programme(s) in a Kenyan University, focusing on devolution/ decentralisation/ federalism.
An average Kenyan student of political science can quote all the Max Weber theories but can't even know/ remember who Bildad Kaggiah was and what he stood for. That's what is wrong with this country ...
I recall him narrating how, on a flight from France to South Africa, he jotted notes about an LLM programme in Human Rights focused on Africa. 21 yrs later, we, the alumni of the CHR-Pretoria LLM, are in academia, Govt, and NGOs across African and beyond. RIP Prof. Christof Heyns
The Justice Ringera judgment in the 2004 Njoya Case is simply wisdomic, given the time of its pronouncement, it’s the first signpost of a fundamental shift in judicial interpretation of constitutionalism in Kenya.