Pius Kamau

It is hard to imagine that an airline can lose a child. But that's precisely what seems to have happened to a three-year-old albino boy, who was a Kenya Airways passenger flying from Nairobi to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in April. The airline does not seem to know where he went....

That the small African albino boy's body is chopped off and parts are one by one removed while he screams in pain haunts me. I see his small limpid body as he is carried by three aggressive looking black African men at the airport in Nairobi on their way to...

If you wish something long, hard and bad enough, chances are it will happen. Or so it would seem from today's Occupy Wall Street movement, which I have wished for for more than a dozen years now. Let me explain: my good friend, Dr. Howie Wolf, a doctor's doctor, one...

The latest Haitian elections were another of those mysteries whose ending few seemed to know. But end it did and Michel Martelly, a popular entertainer, is the new president. Elections in Haiti have always been accompanied by violence and this one was no exception as the actors traced a tortuous...

It was very painful for me to hear that the Rocky Mountain Survivors' Center of Denver (RMSC) would soon close its doors. It sounded so preposterous; in my mind it seems some things of great value should never come to an end. I wondered where the many victims of torture...

The ten year anniversary of the Columbine massacre was reason for a large gathering at Columbine High School to remember and commemorate the sad moments when a day's peace and the tranquility of a wealthy white community were interrupted by gunfire, indiscriminate violence and bloodshed. Speeches were delivered, doves released...

The "right of conscience" rule designed to protect health-care workers that refuse to participate in procedures they deem "morally objectionable" was passed in the waning hours of the Bush administration. It was really aimed at protecting pharmacists who choose not to dispense medications that may cause abortion or help...

As armies of men all across this world aim their guns and sharp knives, having declared war on young girls and women, the Western feminist movement seems to slip deeper into a strange torpor. Or, it malingers. Or simply ignores the tragedy affecting poor women of the world.

Now, that...

For decades, because of their rather similar suffering and the common thread running through their histories, African Americans and American Jews looked at and talked to each other with great sympathy. Their past, crowded with pain, compelled them to consider themselves soulmates; and despite a recent palpable rift between the...

Things are always bad in Africa's largest country, the Sudan. It is a place of nightmares; the difference being the color and texture of each person's nocturnal terror. Today's terror rained upon Darfur's black Muslims by Khartoum's Arabs is a terrible betrayal. But it's of a much less magnitude, less...

We worked for Obama our hearts full of enthusiasm and hope. We were a small group of the large Obama army; we were well aware that many more people were toiling all around us for the same cause. What was somewhat different about us was that we were Africans --...

I was one of the many spectators of the running of the bulls in Pamplona. I saw many injuries; several of the victims were Americans who were taken to local hospitals where they received free emergency medical care, thanks to the Spanish universal healthcare system. In the San Fermin fiesta,...

Four years ago, at about this time, I did an emergency operation on a young man who had no health insurance. A couple of days after the surgery and as we talked about the elections he volunteered that he had voted for GOP's George Bush.

I...

In a region, where HIV is rife and AIDS an unending pandemic, it was breath taking to hear the condemnation of condom use. It sounded surprising and incredible for the Muslim clergy and other religious authorities in North East Kenya would decide to campaign against the promotion of condoms as...

The latest in the ugly marriage between black African leaders and Arab dictators is the African Union's announcement that it opposes the International Criminal Court's indictment of Omar al Bashir, the architect of the latest Sudanese genocide. Both Muamar Khadafy and South Africa's Thabo Mbeki say al Bashir should be...

I have looked for White Guilt on three continents, for a long time. In fact I began looking for it years ago in Europe; long before it went into vogue in America. The French didn't have it. I was however particularly looking for white British guilt. I found none so...

Are there Nazis in Khartoum? Are radical Islamists who have ruled Sudan for decades fascists? These questions have plagued many, even as the American administration has cozied up to Khartoum in its single minded global war against terror. In that time, Americans have watched Khartoum terrorize its own citizens. Khartoum's...

It is not clear what John McCain aimed to accomplish with his trip to Mexico. But if it was to somehow help with our illegal immigration problem, then I think he should have met a few more folks than he did down there. Had I been consulted, I would have...

Even though I immigrated to America three decades ago, when most Americans look at me and hear my accent they can't believe I could be a patriotic American. That I have been quite critical of much that America has done including the war in Iraq; racism in our healthcare system;...

I sent the Arab Imam several emails each followed by a phone call asking to talk to him about Darfur and its Muslim on Muslim violence which recently marked its fifth anniversary. Since my understanding is that the Koran directs Muslims to protect, defend and nurture other Muslims, no matter...