China trade deal too good to miss

• Kenya traditionally exports about 98 per cent of its coffee as unroasted green beans, which works just fine for the Europeans.
• Kenya must progressively open 82.6 per cent of its market to a flood of cheap, subsidised European imports over 15 to 25 years.

China has lifted the Kimono for us. But rather than compose ourselves and behold the glory beyond, we are stuck atop SUVs exchanging insults.

We suffer from a national pettiness so extreme that when Ahmednassir Abdullahi, the national bully, was trolling me on X the other day with his usual invented stories about an office I left four years ago, he was copying the President in on his Tweets!

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  Mutuma Mathiu: Ebola: This is how you do it, Duale

  Aden Duale’s story on the first recorded case of Ebola in Kenya is weak and incomplete.

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  Mutuma Mathiu: Sir Wicknell’s final impunity flight

  A man who left school at Form Two had made himself indispensable to the State Houses of half of Africa.