Why Ruto's 'tax everything that moves' approach is bound to fail

Barr, Epsy Campbell (1963- )

Epsy Campbell Barr is a black Costa Rican politician and trained economist. In 2000 she became one of the founders of the Citizen’s Action Party (CAP), a group of leftist politicians who challenged the then ruling political party. She later ran for President of Costa Rica in 2010 and 2014 under

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A Marxist Scholar Analyzes the American Legal System

In the following article Professor Malik Simba, an historian at California State University, Fresno describes his professional and personal odyssey that led to the writing of his book, Black Marxism and American Constitutionalism: From the Colonial Background through the Ascendancy of Barack Obama

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Is The Help Realistic? It Depends.

In the essay below, Associate Professor Trysh Travis of the University of Floridas Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research Center explores some of the controversy surrounding Kathryn Stocketts novel The Help, which has also become a major film of the same name. She argues that many people

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Former senators allege plot to make Kenyatta PM

Three former senators now claim there is a plot to install President Uhuru Kenyatta or his brother Muhoho Kenyatta as prime minister after the next general

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Tony Prophet

Tony Prophet is Chief Equality Officer of Salesforce. He leads the company’s equality initiatives, focusing on gender, LGBTQ and racial equality to ensure that Salesforce reflects the diversity of the communities it serves. He is a member of the company’s executive committee, reporting to Chairman

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Moi moves to shut Ruto out of Rift

Nearly a week after independence party Kanu signed a post-poll deal with the ruling Jubilee Party, the outfit has now embarked on preparations to reap from its newly formed coalition and consolidate it's support base in the Rift Valley

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Ghana coronavirus: 6,617 cases, Ashanti region pass 1,000 mark

Total confirmed cases = 6,269 (new cases

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Agriculture reforms threaten to split politicians

This is likely to cause a sharp split among leaders, as farmers from the region pressurise the government to hasten the process of reviving the sector that forms their economic

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Kenyatta Targets Ruto's Mt Kenya Allies in Fresh Purge

As Jubilee Party MPs await their parliamentary group meeting with President Uhuru Kenyatta, the onslaught against Deputy President William Ruto's men in the Senate continues with a shake-up of committees expected

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The ultimate betrayal

In a tell-all interview, the first he has given since he was removed from the Office of the Majority Leader, Mr Kipchumba Murkomen has termed President Kenyatta’s treatment of his deputy as extreme provocation, a betrayal of the highest order, and one that was “totally

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Nakuru’s political ‘foes’ unite to defend Ruto

Mr Ngunjiri did not welcome the appointment of Ms Kihika who was then the Nakuru County Assembly Speaker to deliver votes for the

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Nat Turner

Nat Turner was a renowned African-American known for leading the 1831 slave rebellion to free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia, after being subjected to slavery himself. He started a revolt among the black slave followers to free their brother on several plantations. They gained more arms and

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Reed, Judy W. (c. 1826- ? )

Little is known about Judy W. Reed, considered to be the first African American woman to receive a United States

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Kenya: Jubilee Vows to Crack Whip on Errant MPs

Ten MPs allied to Deputy President William Ruto have accused the party leadership of using State agencies to harass and intimidate

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An Urgent Call to Establish a Federal Office of Men’s Health: A Critical Component of Addressing Future Pandemics

It is time for an Office of Men’s Health because preventable male death and illness is decreasing the quality of life for

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Little Richard: A Rock Legend Passes

Earlier this month, the world lost a rock n’ roll legend in Little

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Kenya: Ruto Allies Make U-Turn, Say They Are Pro-Development

Days after threatening to frustrate government's agenda in both the National Assembly and the Senate, Deputy President William Ruto allies have made a U-turn and are now promising to support President Uhuru Kenyatta until he finishes his

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Ruto allies plan anti-Uhuru rallies

The Nation has learnt that the Jubilee MPs plan to frustrate government business in both the Senate and the National Assembly as a way of getting back at President Kenyatta for removing Majority Leader and Whip Kipchumba Murkomen and Susan Kihika from the leadership

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Kenya: What's It Like to Be a Female Photographer Today

Caroline Murang'a, 31, is a lifestyle photographer and the owner Murash Media

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(1993) Clarence Thomas, “The New Intolerance - Law Day Address”

Thank you all so much. Thank you, Judge Bell for your kind words, and I also thank you for all the kind things youve done for me in my life, especially over the last three or four years. I -- This is a real pleasure to be here. I didnt thing so many people would be interested in what I had to

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Ruto's headache in race for presidency

The fangs recently bared by President Uhuru Kenyatta that stung the DP’s allies in the Senate and the new-found camaraderie with ODM leader Raila Odinga now present the DP with a headache as he crafts his plan B to ascend to the house on the

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Information on nursing home, residential facility clusters to be released Monday

In the last LDH report on the number of clusters, which consist of two or more cases at a single facility, there were 46 identified across the state — just over nine percent of the registered homes in the

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Africa: Uneca Encourages Africa to Invest On Digital Transformation

The webinar was organised by Africa Information and Communication Technology Alliance (AfICTA) in collaboration with UNECA with the theme "Unlocking Africa's Digital Potential Amid

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Ghana coronavirus: 5,127 cases; Obuasi becomes latest hotspot

April 12: Cases hit 5,127; gold-rich Obuasi new hotspot

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Spike Lee

Spike Lee is a famous American award winning director. His birth name is Shelton Jackson Lee and he was born in Atlanta, Georgia to an arts teacher named Jacqueline Carroll and a jazz musician named William James Edward Lee III. He was nicknamed “Spike” by his mother who encouraged his

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Telling Secrets, Spying Freedom: A Novel Account of Mary Bowser's Civil War Espionage

In the following account historian and novelist Lois Leveen describes how she came to write her critically acclaimed novel, The Secrets of Mary Bowser, the account of a black woman who served as a Union spy in the Confederate White House during the American Civil

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Anti-Lynching Advocate

When civil rights crusader Ida B. Wells-Barnett died in 1931, the Chicago Defender described her as elegant, striking, and always well groomed . . . regal though somewhat intolerant and impulsive. Throughout Wells-Barnetts career as a journalist, social-political organizer and suffragist, she

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African American History

African American history entails the American history with regard to black ethnic group that formed its root in America after being enslaved by the whites in their homeland. The heinous tradition of holding blacks in captivity and enslaving them began in the mid 16th century and lasted till

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Jamaican supermodel Jeneil Williams talks being pregnant in a pandemic with Vogue

(Jamaica Gleaner) Pulse star and multiple Vogue cover girl, Jeneil Williams, is expecting a baby this summer and, true to form, the supermodel has been the focus of major magazines as they chronicle her journey to

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