Kila: Before The Stone Is Cast

I can’t recall ever having shared the same physical space with the embattled public commentator, Anthony Kila , but my heart goes out to him in his hour of tribulation. Before now, I’ve only spoken to him over the phone. I thought he was a respectful and brilliant person. I found him personable, engaging and worldly-wise.
Say what you will, in the garb of a public intellectual, Kila was often perspicacious and insightful. He spoke like a man who professed something (Okot p’ Bitek taught me that every professor must profess something!). But for the thorough job done on the investigation by Premium Times, it would have been difficult to wrestle him down from his alleged bogus academic pe...