Colonialist Law in Kenya sends a blogger to jail

Our Penal Code was enacted in August 1930. Section 132 of that code says, any person who, without lawful excuse, utters, prints, publishes any words, or does any act or thing, calculated to bring into contempt, or to excite defiance of or disobedience to, the lawful authority of a public officer or any class of public officers is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years. Under our constitution a public o fficer is virtually everyone working for the government in its broad nature. This is the small law that is likely to send a number of us to jail. Lawyers will tell you that no matter how long a law stays in disuse it doesn’t go stale. You only dust it one morning and voila!!!! You use it to send a blogger to jail. So my question, should this piece of 1930 law be repealed?

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How to Increase Mental Toughness: 4 Secrets From Navy SEALs and Olympians

Know what’s really interesting? Learning how Navy SEALs build mental toughness to handle deadly situations. Know what else is really interesting? Learning how Olympic athletes deal with the pressure of competition when the entire world is watching. Know what’s the most interesting of all? When you find out they do a lot of the same things. “Mental Links To Excellence” is a research study of what Olympians do to prepare for their big day. And so much of it lines up with what I learned researching SEAL training and talking to former Navy Seal Platoon Commander James Waters. The best part is you and I can use these methods to perform better at work and in our personal lives. Let’s find out how… 1) Talk Positively To Yourself Your brain is always going. It’s estimated you say 300 to 1000 words to yourself per minute. Olympic athletes and SEALs agree: those words need to be positive. One of the Olympians said: “Immediately before the race I was thinking about trying to stay on that edge, ju...

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