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For the patient art of mythbuilding, where isolated artifacts and phenomena are imagined first to probe a simple idea of the future.

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CBC curriculum turmoil has Kenyan schools billing up inequality

Competence does not mean skill, it is the standard used for TVET. It would mean our children would learn the bare minimum. Denying them chance to expand their minds and gain knowledgeable education and skills. To accept their place lower in the

January 21, 2025

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Part I; How to set up a studio in Kisumu’s real estate

For those thinking of making this great trek into the unfamiliar, our experience setting up shop in Kisumu might provide some pointers on how to navigate real estate in Kenya’s satellite towns.

July 16, 2024

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Married in Namalo Part II

Most people in the group go along with the idea that they are not actually in agreement with, because they incorrectly believe that most people in the group agree with it.

April 5, 2024

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Married at Namalo Part 1

I had to break out of the chant of repeated prayers and it was difficult to decide whether I was part of the proceedings or outside it as an observer.

April 4, 2024

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Part III Crime and cycle of poverty

Given that five out of ten motorcycles in Kenya have been financed by Watu credit, there is almost a fifty percent chance that a stolen motorcycle was acquired through them.

March 5, 2024

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CBC curriculum turmoil has Kenyan schools billing up inequality

Part I; How to set up a studio in Kisumu’s real estate

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

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

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

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

Married at Namalo Part 1

Part III Crime and cycle of poverty

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