Oral East Africa, Author at Orals East Africa

Absa smoothens transition year with 12 percent profit growth

Absa appointed Abdi Mohamed as CEO in May 2023, replacing Mr Jeremy Awori who left the lender after a decade that saw it switch brands from Barclay Plc. Last year was also the inaugural year for Absa executing its ambitious five-year strategy to win

March 18, 2024

Events & Travel

CSR budgets turned on worthy cause for International women’s day

International Women’s Day is celebrated to address pertinent issues that affect women such as gender equality, reproductive rights, violence and abuse against women and discrimination based on sex.

March 11, 2024

Brands

In mobile banking the brand is customer obsession

Family Bank was voted as the best tier two bank and overall third-best bank in customer satisfaction and digital banking experience in a 2023

March 11, 2024

Economy & Politics

Banks tap into small business tax compliance

Mixing personal and business transactions can lead to confusion, make accounting challenging, and may even have legal implications

February 22, 2024

Economy & Politics·Videos

We demand two thirds rule; waol gi uuwii!

Women make up only 15 percent of Kenya’s police force despite a constitutional mandate a balance with neither gender being over two-thirds in any government body.

February 19, 2024

Long Read·Project Unemployment·Videos

Kenyan Wordsmith who spoke Pan African scrabble into existence: Part III

As the government takes up at least 20 percent of payslips in deductions, and tax induced inflation takes up the rest, the disposable income that would go to savings is narrowing. It does not help when young Kenyans see that it does

February 13, 2024

Outdoor

This Valentines; the wild within

Kisumu city starts and ends in nature. Backed up by the lake, the city extends from the papyrus at Dunga, plush greenery of Milimani into the central business district. Here street photography is easier, you do not have to literally look over

February 11, 2024

Long Read·Project Unemployment

How to be unemployed in 2024: Part IV; Social capital

Bush assessed my belongings, a mattress a 13 kilo meko cylinder and a bag of clothes and concluded I only needed two motorcycles for the move.

February 9, 2024

Long Read·Project Unemployment

How to be unemployed in 2024: Part III; The Kenya Kwanza’s Jubilee playbook

I took a chance on a path that led me back to surprising places, back to Kisumu city where I had lived as a child; I would be roughly the same age as Manyala, my son, when we moved here in the

February 8, 2024

Long Read·Project Unemployment

How to be unemployed in 2024: Part II; Flying blindly

Despite the fact that the shilling is now undervalued, the CBK has raised rates considerably to make it attractive, and a strong flow of dollars from the multilateral lenders are coming in; why aren’t investors rushing in? It all comes down to

February 6, 2024

Oral East Africa

Absa smoothens transition year with 12 percent profit growth

CSR budgets turned on worthy cause for International women’s day

In mobile banking the brand is customer obsession

Banks tap into small business tax compliance

We demand two thirds rule; waol gi uuwii!

Kenyan Wordsmith who spoke Pan African scrabble into existence: Part III

This Valentines; the wild within

How to be unemployed in 2024: Part IV; Social capital

How to be unemployed in 2024: Part III; The Kenya Kwanza’s Jubilee playbook

How to be unemployed in 2024: Part II; Flying blindly

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