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.
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
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
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.
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
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
How to be unemployed in 2024: Part I: Why the oracles are silent
For the media the intimidation was monetary, early one morning, the management of a leading newspaper was summoned to the Central Bank and bullied about reporting on the currency ostensibly to put pressure to stop negative coverage.
SHE Leads at the heart of Kisumu’s resurgence
The mission was twofold: to galvanize girls and young women within civil society into harmonious, gender-conscious collective action and to amplify their influence by fostering positive social gender norms.
Company quotations are saying something about dollar rates
Clients who initially agreed to prices quoted in Kenyan Shillings a couple of months ago, are now grappling with the unexpected burden of having to pay more for goods and services that were once upon a time within their budgets.
Omena grown out of a green house
With Prof Ojijo’s inventions women at Dunga and Marenga Beach would no longer have had the need to spend time chasing birds away from open air system of drying omena.