Otiato Guguyu

Dead heroes, a celebration by people ageing with a forgotten pandemic

A memory, sometimes two, per candle light as the National Empowerment of People Living with HIV in Kenya- NEPHAK met last week to remember their heroes, their spouses, their children, parents and friends lost to the worlds forgotten pandemic; AIDS.

May 25, 2024

Finance & Markets

Depositors shrink Equity Bank’s Q1 margins by a quarter

Equity Bank's interest expenses on customer deposits almost doubled from Kes5 billion to Kes9.5 billion signaling the challenge facing lenders as depositors become more aware of the value of their money.

May 13, 2024

Fiction

The vinyl thief

The vinyl had been replaced by the tape, the tape by the CD, by the flashdisk, memory stick, now everything's in the cloud.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.

May 7, 2024

Long Read

Part 3: Kenya’s Kes6 billion regulated gamble

But this helplessness was weird. The Capital Markets Authority, working with the Communication Commission of Kenya (CCK) together with the Central Bank of Kenya had the capacity of closing down payment channels for unlicensed brokers.

May 1, 2024

Long Read

Part 2 What tomatoes, NSE and forex have in common?

Unlike my Interweb experience, this open office with open glass paneled walls almost felt it cost money and had some European benefactors behind it.

April 30, 2024

Long Read

Part 1: Hot forex, my kind of gamble

The high loss rates witnessed on online forex trading has shocked Kenyan officials who are debating on whether to treat these products like cigarettes, literally attaching glaring warning signs saying you are unlikely to win and 90 per cent chance your money

April 30, 2024

Events & Travel

Married in Rowo

For Odiero, this was a magical moment, it confirmed everything in his belief in choosing Kakwe for his wife. This could not have happened in Germany on a cold winter night thinking of gas prices, it could only happen in Sindo, tonight,

April 20, 2024

Long Read

Private sector, “blink twice if you need help”; Part 2

The motorcycle riders often take a quarter to half a litre for short trips, at times funded by their customers before setting out. The boda boda who had shouted Hustler loudest are now angriest against President William Ruto’s regime.

April 17, 2024

Long Read

Private sector, “blink twice if you need help”; Part 1

President Uhuru Kenyatta had been adamant about going after the private sector openly. But his successor President William Ruto was not beholden to this private sector; and seen as a political outsider, he gave the IMF the most realistic opportunity to change

April 16, 2024

Events & Travel

Inflation ta’ngo? Janabi wuoyo

The sounds of the gong, shake, thump, and sax from his live band punctuate the air. Like lemmings, the crowds are drawn towards this pied piper, crawling over each other just to get a little closer to the goosebump-raising voice.

April 14, 2024

Otiato Guguyu

Dead heroes, a celebration by people ageing with a forgotten pandemic

Depositors shrink Equity Bank’s Q1 margins by a quarter

The vinyl thief

Part 3: Kenya’s Kes6 billion regulated gamble

Part 2 What tomatoes, NSE and forex have in common?

Part 1: Hot forex, my kind of gamble

Married in Rowo

Private sector, “blink twice if you need help”; Part 2

Private sector, “blink twice if you need help”; Part 1

Inflation ta’ngo? Janabi wuoyo

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