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Absa Bank sees strong profit growth on cost containment

November 20, 2024

Absa Bank cost containment strategies helped reduce the lenders cost to income ratio to 37.8 percent with this improvement resulting in total revenue growth outpacing costs, aided by an improving rate environment.

Lucky unlucky, the march for Kisumu preterms with no neonatal-ICU

Premature births are quite a common occurrence in Kenya, with 12 percent out of all babies born annually

Co-op keeps growth steady with pivot to state and peers

To deal with the high costs banks have either had to cut costs elsewhere or target faster revenue

Absa Bank sees strong profit growth on cost containment

Absa Bank cost containment strategies helped reduce the lenders cost

Co-op keeps growth steady with pivot to state and peers

To deal with the high costs banks have either had

Safaricom face backlash building backdoor access for Kenyan police

Safaricom is accused of helping to obfuscate call record data

Business anxious as courts stop DP Gachagua’s removal

Kenyan companies are worried about the implication of a protracted

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Long Read

Why banks are finally interested in business

November 12, 2024

With credit to the private sector having tumbled to 3.7 percent in July from 13.9 at the end of last year, banks are coming

Sleepy villages at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro. The mountain’s base measures up to 40 km across and covers an area of about 388,500 hectares.

Events & Travel·Long Read

Climbing Kilimanjaro, no downhill task

October 29, 2024

Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, which at 5,895 meters is the highest peak in Africa, is not for the weak of heart. Most importantly, it is

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The Battle for Laikipia, a documentary you cannot UNSEE

October 22, 2024

At the end of the documentary, you feel that something you have seen cannot be unseen. Most of the white people in the audience

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Part 2: The Bonus Tea party, Inyali farmers uproot tea bushes

October 16, 2024

“In tea, everyone who does not grow tea makes money, from the muzungu, the local leaders,, the directors, the brokers, the private, the lorries,

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The Bonus Tea party, Inyali farmers uproot tea bushes

October 15, 2024

If you were in Chavakali the place where you would get them was Embassy pub. I knew it because that is the place where

Photography

Photography

The language of the Great Lake of East Africa

August 11, 2024

‘An Nelson Janyakach’, he greets me, typical of Luo-folk whose identities are tied to their village dhot’s that constitute an important part of greeting.

Ol school RnB is queen of Kisumu parties

October 26, 2024

It is clear that this show can fill a stadium

From Vinyl Addiction to R&B Brunches, Kisumu Catches the Old School Fever

October 6, 2024

The second edition of Vinyl Addiction took place on Saturday,

Party after party to end the year in Kisumu

October 4, 2024

Events like Kisumu Old School Brunch and Vinyl Addiction had

Events & Travel

Entertainment·Events & Travel

Ol school RnB is queen of Kisumu parties

October 26, 2024

It is clear that this show can fill a stadium and there goes what the entertainment

3 Little Birds·Events & Travel

Chameleon no more!

October 24, 2024

I learned that I walked through life like a ‘gift pack’. It is when you always

3 Little Birds·Events & Travel

Black girl Magic

October 17, 2024

As we made plans for the next five years of our lives, it was clear to

Entertainment·Events & Travel

Party after party to end the year in Kisumu

October 4, 2024

Events like Kisumu Old School Brunch and Vinyl Addiction had such a tremendous showing on demand

Events & Travel

Kenyan government sees the great lake

September 27, 2024

There lies immense opportunity for watersports activities to thrive here, much like the marine parks in

Fiction & Non Fiction

Fiction & Non Fiction·Non Fiction

Rethinking the Place of Dowry in Today’s Marriages

May 10, 2024

Initially, the ‘token of appreciation’ was in the form of cattle or other livestock, and, or farm produce, however, the bahasha phenomenon has taken precedence, where a certain amount of money much more like a priced good in the market is set

Fiction

The vinyl thief

May 7, 2024

The vinyl had been replaced by the tape, the tape by the CD, by the flashdisk, memory stick, now everything's in the cloud. What chance did they have against virtual storage, but some few eccentrics and lost souls.

Fiction & Non Fiction·Non Fiction

How to tour Diani in local hands

April 9, 2024

If they would throw him in the middle of it, he could navigate his way to shore. Floating like driftwood as the current sailed back on familiar tide.

Poetry

Killing a god

April 6, 2024

They will come to you Son When the world Is at a precipice They will be desperate And you, Clueless Keep this wisdom That history grants you That when money’s power is at a zenith Tyrannical And they are unable to control

Poetry

Reincarnations

April 6, 2024

My gods Look at me Like gelded phantoms From the ruins of their tombs As I supplicate to foreign gods And they serve me well Maybe better My deities toss and turn Trying to catch my attention Managing momentary accessibility In my

Fiction·Fiction & Non Fiction

they cut off her wings right before she could fly

February 2, 2024

I could tell it was serious business by the way it was talked about in low tones. Rukiya was placed before the adults in the wide sitting room and she looked squeamish on the seats like she could fall over and disappear

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