Tabitha Nderitu, Author at Toward Freedom

Popular Abroad, Kenyan Nobel Laureate Maathai Faces Challenges at Home

Tabitha Nderitu May 14, 2009 Tabitha Nderitu

Wangari Maathai

Nairobi,

Kenya

- Though her status as the first and only woman from Africa to be awarded with the prestigious Noble Peace Prize offered the opportunity for a promising political career, the indomitable Professor Wangari Maathai has seen her grand plans falter. Maathai's ambitions to ascend to high political office continue to be challenged by a patriarchal society and populace that doesn't support her, believing she in not in touch with the everyday realities of Kenyan life.

Kenyan Government Split Over Human Rights

Tabitha Nderitu June 19, 2008 Tabitha Nderitu

Displaced Children Post 2007 Election

Nairobi, Kenya-"We hurriedly buried the seven in the shallow grave and fled due to fears of attacks," explained Joseph Mwangi Macharia as armed police accompanying him went through the motions of evacuating the cattle farmer's entire family, all victims of post-election violence in Kenya.

Politics in Kenya: A Look at Prime Minister Raila Odinga

Tabitha Nderitu May 28, 2008 Tabitha Nderitu

Raila Odinga

Nairobi,

Kenya

-Supporters cast Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga as a noble warrior fighting for democracy, transparency and accountability. Opponents portray him as a desperate adversary who would stop at nothing to achieve his political ends. Odinga himself acknowledges he has been criticized for changing political parties at will, but maintains that he has never compromised his principles. "Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others change their principles for the sake of their party," he said, quoting Winston Churchill.

When Radio Spreads Violence: Free Speech Questioned in Kenya

Tabitha Nderitu April 3, 2008 Tabitha Nderitu

Soldier stands over displaced Kenyans

Many people were murdered with machetes and some victims were assaulted with arrows. Occasionally, in the dead of the night, victims were corralled by a mob to forlorn structures where they were executed. Did radio broadcasts contribute to the recent violence in Kenya which left 1,000 dead and displaced tens of thousands?

Facing Women’s Rights in Kenya

Tabitha Nderitu March 13, 2008 Tabitha Nderitu

Wangari Maathai

Nairobi, Kenya - As an impressionable girl straight from college, Njeri Mwangi was exhilarated when the Human Resources Department of East and Central African region's largest selling newspaper had hired her as a reporter. But throughout the five years that she worked for the Nation Media Group, rising to the enviable position of Senior Parliamentary reporter, Njeri was anything but happy.