Posted: July 22, 2025 | Last updated: July 22, 2025 Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi sings while holding a Kenyan flag in the dock of the Kahawa court in Kiambu, Kenya, on Monday 21 July 2025.

The obsession with restricting the use of the Kenyan flag has been relentless yet illogical in every sense. We have permitted outmoded laws and overbearing State officials to perpetuate 'mystery ...

The Kenyan Shujaa wakes up every morning despite all odds and uses the sweat of his hands to feed his family and pay taxes. The true Kenyan adorns no flag and needs not bellow the anthem for show.

He stopped flicking through the bracelets and paused, his hand mid-air holding a string of beads in red, green, white and black—the colors of the Kenyan flag. “Why?” he asked.