Robert Ouko: The Kenyan Leader Whose Assassination Shook the Nation

Dr. Robert Ouko

Few events in Kenya’s post-independence history have left as deep and lasting a scar as the assassination of Dr. Robert John Ouko. A brilliant diplomat, respected statesman, and one of Kenya’s most influential political figures, Ouko’s mysterious death in 1990 marked a turning point in the country’s political consciousness. His assassination exposed deep cracks within the … Read more

The Wagalla Massacre: How Government Forces Killed Over 5,000 Kenyans on 10th Feb 1984

The Wagalla Massacre

The Wagalla Massacre remains one of the darkest and most painful chapters in Kenya’s post-independence history. On 10th February 1984, thousands of Kenyan civilians—mostly men from the Degodia clan—lost their lives after a brutal military operation conducted at the Wagalla Airstrip in Wajir County. Despite commissions of inquiry, government statements, and decades of mourning, the screams of that … Read more