Dispatch from Mombasa

"….. 90% of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons  for supporting our predilections." - Justice William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Judge USA), * As the dust settles in the just concluded American elections, questions are likely to arise on what went wrong in Secretary Hilary Clinton’s campaign camp. Many people were of the opinion that Hilary Clinton was likely to win. Their observation was backed by opinion polls that gave her a between 4-8% lead over President-Elect Donald J. Trump. Secretary Clinton had a good message going. She spoke policy and the continuation of President Barrack Obama’s legacy which had seen the American economy register significant growth compared to when President George Bush left White House in 2008. What concerns me is the role played by strategic communication advisers for Donald J. Trump that left the Clinton camp stun and with egg on the face. Their role provides crucial lessons to any practising or a...

Moments after Washington outsider and business mogul Donald Trump was elected US President, Facebook was ablaze with a bitter war of words between ODM and Jubilee over who should learn from the win. The election of Trump stunned both supporters and opponents the world over with stock markets reacting angrily to the election of a man who is widely considered to be an outsider. In Kenya, ODM and Jubilee decided to trade accusations over who supported him in the elections. The first to fire a salvo was ODM’s Director of Communication Phillip Etale who in his Facebook page accused Government insiders saying they had a lot to learn from the win. Dennis  Itumbi The PSCU Director of Digital Communication was the first to respond saying that the winning lessons were mainly meant for former PM Raila Odinga. He gave a link in which the former PM and ODM flag bearer had supported Hilary Clinton and even attended the Democratic Party Congress in which she was d...

Claims by President Barack Obama half-brother Malik Obama that he will be voting Donald Trump in the upcoming American general elections has torn down the middle the President’s ancestral home in Kogello in western Kenya, with village leaders opposing the views. Responding to a report in the New York Post , the chairman of Kogello Nyang’oma village, in Siaya County, President Obama’s ancestral home, Mr. Vitalis Awandu Ondewe said that the village was solely behind Democrats presidential flagbearer Hillary Clinton and their son Barack Obama. “I was shocked to read the report. We are for the Democratic Party fulltime. We are supporting Hilary and she is going to win,” Mr Ondewe said in a telephone conversation with the writer. Ondewe said he was unconcerned about the support of Malik to Donald Trump because that was his opinion as an individual and did not have the backing of the community. “Majority of this community or Luo community or many Kenyans we are for the Democratic p...