Otiato Guguyu, Author at Orals East Africa

Busia crisis; The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth

Business in Busia has stalled completely as the violence has extended for days and is quickly evolving into dangerous political and tribal lines that will have a lasting effect in the county

February 24, 2024

Finance & Markets

IMF warned Kenya currency strength won’t bring down prices

IMF said models tracking Kenya’s exchange rates movement over decades showed that while prices shot up during currency depreciations, they do not come down when the shilling strengthens.

February 20, 2024

Outdoor·Photography

Photographing #EndFemicideProtest in Kisumu

I started covering the #EndFemicide protests just after they had set off from Kisumu's revolutionary round about of Kondele. It was my first real journalistic work here, and I had become rusty. The last time I covered protests, were the violent University

February 19, 2024

Long Read·Project Unemployment

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

You check your wardrobe and some clothes you have never seen for years. If you do not achieve the environment that encourages you to give, you just keep accumulating.

February 14, 2024

Finance & Markets

Kenya’s ‘black leopard’ valentine bonds

For Kenya, pressure to contain spiraling currency and local domestic maturities have meant that expensive money is preferable to inflation and default.

February 13, 2024

Long Read·Project Unemployment

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

I do not get rid of the bad ones to pick the good ones, but with three or so moves the arrangement will come by itself, my rack will just blend and I score

February 12, 2024

Long Read·Project Unemployment

Kenyan Wordsmith who spoke Pan African scrabble into existence: Part I; BINGO

They gave you two options, one is to write about a trip to Kisumu. The other is the same trip to Kisumu but they give you certain phrases; then you have to use your creativity so that the story flows from those

February 11, 2024

Otiato Guguyu

Busia crisis; The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth

IMF warned Kenya currency strength won’t bring down prices

Photographing #EndFemicideProtest in Kisumu

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

Kenya’s ‘black leopard’ valentine bonds

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

Kenyan Wordsmith who spoke Pan African scrabble into existence: Part I; BINGO

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