Otiato Guguyu, Author at Orals East Africa

The cement and steel tariffs that had Guru singing Kanu’s a hundred years

In 2024 cement consumption decreased by 7.2 per cent to 8,537.0 thousand metric tonnes, over the same period, while private employment in the sector registered a downward trend, decreasing from 226.3 thousand in 2023 to 223.4 thousand employees in 2024, KNBS

May 13, 2025

Long Read

The Gupta-like capture of Kenya’s steel and cement sector, that has everyone speaking Guru

My steel business has been affected; we can’t get scrap metal. If I were close to the president, would I be suffering as I am?

May 13, 2025

Finance & Markets

Sokomoko Kibuye, the stink of toilet politics behind cholera shutdown

As the state attempts to dismantle this powerful woman it created out of its own inefficiency, it faces its inconsistencies in its justifications, and harms the consumer who benefits from the cut-throat competition of rival Kibuye traders that had made it the

May 7, 2025

Long Read

Mtu wa Ukimwi’: Why Kenyan Youth Fear the Shift to General HIV Care

Kenya PLHIV communities remain highly stigmatized, according to the Stigma Index impacting adherence to medicine, and reporting very high prevalence of people afraid of having their status disclosed, delaying treatment and leading to Advanced HIV Disease (AHD).

May 6, 2025

Events & Travel

Kenya’s construction boom runs into biodiversity losses

I had to recall this story when lately two black-and-white-casqued hornbills have been spotted hanging off the ledges of high-rise parkland balconies after their nests were cut down by a developer in the area.

May 5, 2025

Long Read

GNP+ the HIV lobby that saw Trump cuts coming, is leading PLHIV leaders out of the fog of the funding crisis

The one thing that primarily stands out for me is the why we are doing what we are doing, and we have our why very clear, and that it is for people living with HIV. To get every person living with HIV

April 15, 2025

Finance & Markets

Betting on abbreviations: Absa wows customers and peers with financial engineering

It was intriguing to see how Absa Bank has nurtured the ETF market and invested in the stories of its customers to grow it into a robust segment of the NSE.

March 27, 2025

Events & Travel

Walking with raised skirts over Kisumu’s drainage problem

The infamous violent evening storms with forked streaks of lightning splintering over the great lake INyanza, that rage violently for less than an hour moving like black pillars stretching from haven to earth.

March 26, 2025

Economy & Politics

It is Patrice Lumumba’s 1960 all over again as Kagame dares defy the US empire

The message was crystal clear, to defy America was to choose death, and the inheritors of British empire ramped up the violence to implant this fear in the psyche of a continent.

March 18, 2025

Long Read

Kenya’s politics of ID cards is creating poverty and exclusion

For Kenyans who lack ID cards it is not a matter of mere votes, it is a matter of access to socio-economic well-being and citizenship rights, with the affected members living a life of indignity as they fear being harassed by the

February 11, 2025

Otiato Guguyu

The cement and steel tariffs that had Guru singing Kanu’s a hundred years

The Gupta-like capture of Kenya’s steel and cement sector, that has everyone speaking Guru

Sokomoko Kibuye, the stink of toilet politics behind cholera shutdown

Mtu wa Ukimwi’: Why Kenyan Youth Fear the Shift to General HIV Care

Kenya’s construction boom runs into biodiversity losses

GNP+ the HIV lobby that saw Trump cuts coming, is leading PLHIV leaders out of the fog of the funding crisis

Betting on abbreviations: Absa wows customers and peers with financial engineering

Walking with raised skirts over Kisumu’s drainage problem

It is Patrice Lumumba’s 1960 all over again as Kagame dares defy the US empire

Kenya’s politics of ID cards is creating poverty and exclusion

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