EP 3: Side hustle left me in debts
I had hired out my vehicle and the driver used to call me all the time to fix it. But when I retired and finally repossessed it, I was being stopped in all garages asking for their money
EP 2: Don’t use pension to buy Kondele mowuok
Kondele Mowuok- are the matatus that ply Kisumu's main town service. For retirees, this cash business can seem like a logical venture to sink years of savings upon retirement.
EP 1: Gen Z demand for jobs
Two Kenyan business journalist who have covered debt and economy over the last decade have a conversation about misdiagnosis of the Gen Z crisis amid a debt, political and geopolitical crisis and why we need new political actors.
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.
Kenyan Wordsmith who spoke Pan African scrabble into existence: Part III
As the government takes up at least 20 percent of payslips in deductions, and tax induced inflation takes up the rest, the disposable income that would go to savings is narrowing. It does not help when young Kenyans see that it does
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
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
How to be unemployed in 2024: Part IV; Social capital
Bush assessed my belongings, a mattress a 13 kilo meko cylinder and a bag of clothes and concluded I only needed two motorcycles for the move.
How to be unemployed in 2024: Part III; The Kenya Kwanza’s Jubilee playbook
I took a chance on a path that led me back to surprising places, back to Kisumu city where I had lived as a child; I would be roughly the same age as Manyala, my son, when we moved here in the
How to be unemployed in 2024: Part II; Flying blindly
Despite the fact that the shilling is now undervalued, the CBK has raised rates considerably to make it attractive, and a strong flow of dollars from the multilateral lenders are coming in; why aren’t investors rushing in? It all comes down to
How to be unemployed in 2024: Part I: Why the oracles are silent
For the media the intimidation was monetary, early one morning, the management of a leading newspaper was summoned to the Central Bank and bullied about reporting on the currency ostensibly to put pressure to stop negative coverage.
