Opinion

Most African countries have a peripheral capitalist economy with limited access to the financial structure. Hence, as the third-world countries work with multinationals with balance sheets multiple times the sizes of their economies, to get financial recourse, most have ended up signing away their countries and their future generations. However, there is a new tune on the continent, fighting multinational corporations on the grounds of exploitation and repression. It is estimated that every year Kenya loses $558 million (Kes 76.9 billion) in one form or another of tax planning. While the practice is not illegal, multinational companies and Western capitals push through favorable tax policies

Land evictions evokes emotions of powerlessness, humiliation, and despair. Evictions are widespread in Kenya and in cases where the purported grabbers are issued with notice. The government or the bona fide owners of the land in question usually ignore court orders. The uncertainty around land ownership in Kenya is shrouded with corruption where powerful and well-connected individuals colluding with cartels who have vested interest in the land. This is what pains many citizens who feel the land saga was supposed to have been the first to be addressed after independence. Land remains an emotive issue in Kenya and the successive regimes have failed to plan

Africa has become the home of military coups as it has experienced more coups than any other continent, and no wonder it is said that when a country has one coup, then that often a harbinger of more coups. Coups are notorious in West and Central Africa, and in some parts of Horn of Africa. Sudan has had the highest share of military coups In Africa followed by Burkina Faso and Burundi. African presidents have the habit of manipulating the constitution to eliminate term limits to extend their stay in power and this is what we call Constitutional Coup that more often give birth to