I was honoured to inaugurate this year’s Avid Readers’ Forum conversations as the Lead Reader, on a theme dear to my African Feminisms scholarship. Before diving into my reflections on the conversation, it is instructive to appreciate that Afr...

On Wednesday, 22 January 2025, the Avid Readers Forum organised a physical event to discuss Professor Ali Mazrui's groundbreaking lecture titled ‘The Black Woman and the Problem of Gender: An African Perspective’. Ruth Jebet, a final-year law ...

In 2019, I proposed starting a forum for reading and discussion to impact students and faculty members at Kabarak Law School and cultivate a culture of reading and discourse. Initially, I believed that only a few people would join the Av...

The 5th anniversary of the Avid Readers’ Forum shimmered on the horizon, a beacon of celebration within the law school community. As the sun dipped beneath the horizon on the late afternoon of 4 October 2024, the Midland Hotel in Nakuru became...

On 2 October 2024, the Avid Readers Forum hosted the final webinar in its fifth-anniversary celebration series, focusing on ‘Religion and its Influence on State and Governance’. The lead discussants were Chief Justice Emeritus Willy Mutunga, a...

The Avid Readers’ Forum hosted the third webinar in a series for its 5th Anniversary celebrations on Wednesday, 18 September 2024. During the webinar, the effectiveness of constitutional democracy was the centre of discussion, as was the prior...

This year marks the first quinquennial celebrations of the Avid Readers’ Forum at the Kabarak University School of Law. The idea of having formal celebrations to mark five years of the Avid Readers Forum was a brainchild of Mr. Cedric Kadima, ...

The Avid Readers’ Forum held a significant webinar on 11 September 2024 focused on fulfilling economic and social rights as outlined in Article 43 of the Kenyan Constitution. The panel featured distinguished experts: Dr Gautam Bhatia, a renown...

It is the expectation of any person that a member of the Avid Readers’ Forum (ARF) was or has always been an avid reader. Allow me to greatly fail to meet your expectations. This writing, unlike the others that may focus on the journey of the ...

There was a time in my life when I was fascinated with picking carrots, the reason being the excitement that came with not knowing what was beneath and, more importantly, the power to find out by just pulling them out of the ground.