Otiato Guguyu, Author at Orals East Africa

Africa should build its own financial architecture from ground up

In a generation an educated youthful population who number two for every child and pensioner delivers an economic boom since more people are economically active than dependents, and this builds up enough savings to reduce the cost of credit.

June 5, 2024

Entertainment·Events & Travel

Kisumu reveals the best poets in East Africa

Even if the regional title is gone, it seems, the Kenyan title is contested.

May 28, 2024

Long Read

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The vinyl had been replaced by the tape, the tape by the CD, by the flashdisk, memory stick, now everything's in the cloud.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

Otiato Guguyu

Africa should build its own financial architecture from ground up

Kisumu reveals the best poets in East Africa

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

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