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When Bitcoin came to Kisumu we gave Africa Free Routing the largest cohort of BitDevs

Paul Ogudah and I are in the same cohort of Kisumu residents who recently returned to city in Nyanza from the capital Nairobi, having left it after campus just a decade prior. We had both been to Maseno University, but the campus

July 19, 2026

Book Review

Next of skin: Madiang’s art of raw talk

In this age, if you want to insult politicians and not end up dead, in prison or both, maybe you should consider learning Oluoch Madiang’s poetry of resistance, and saying it as it is. The Next of Skin is a rich collection

April 29, 2026

Events & Travel

Lakehub seeks long term lease in county partnership, as first cohort graduate

Lakehub, wants Kisumu county to give them a long-term lease extension for the Zone01 project located at Lake Basin Mall along Kakamega road, as the programme graduated its first cohort of software developers. Kenya’s first tech outside the capital city has provided

April 15, 2026

Economy & Politics

President Ruto Hails Raila’s role in Uzima University charter during Fifth Graduation Ceremony

The absence of former Prime Minister Raila Oding’a loomed large over Uzima University as it celebrated its fifth graduation ceremony, and a full university charter granted on the appeal of the late prime minister. The university was set up 15 years ago

February 3, 2026

Economy & Politics

End of Pax-Americana; grim days ahead

I grew up in USAID estate in Kisumu. When I was my son’s age, we used to call it ‘You-Said’ or rather Uuusssaid with all the Luo accent you can imagine into the sss, and for a time that is what I

January 26, 2026

Economy & Politics

Rise welfare associations for social capital

Kenya is witnessing a resurgence of local village and clan ties as communities turn to welfare associations to form groups for resilience to weather the multi-year economic slump. The number of welfare associations being formed is rising as communities form welfare groups

January 19, 2026

Book Review

After the concert of life, village jingles call Francis Okomo

If any writer has grasped Shakespeare’s philosophy of life as a theatre with everyone having a role to play, then it is Francis Okomo Okello in his autobiography, The Concert of Life. His theatre is indeed a great concert, where he performed

January 14, 2026

Culture

Mashemeji; the peace marriages of Nyanza Royalty

When confronted with the age old question of who I was, where we come from, my young mind never quite got contented with the answer our people gave, we were Manyala, simply interpreted as ‘Yes We Can’. My own parents are Christians

January 14, 2026

Culture

Namuonja the Manyala who ruled North East Nyanza before we became Kenya

In December, the blood of Paul Khasamba Namwonja Mukudi flowed back from its hundreds of tributaries back to its source at Idokho, Rugunga where the king rests, for the first memorial by his progeny. Namuonja Mukudi who today would have dominion over

January 14, 2026

Economy & Politics

Tanzania crisis shows old power across EAC has lost youth imaginings

At the risk of sounding sexist in this sensitive era where gender issues easily raise hackles; in the ornate palaces of the Middle East and the Orient, during the Middle Ages, when the Arabic culture was taking shape, one of the most

October 31, 2025

Kisumu

When Bitcoin came to Kisumu we gave Africa Free Routing the largest cohort of BitDevs

Next of skin: Madiang’s art of raw talk

Lakehub seeks long term lease in county partnership, as first cohort graduate

President Ruto Hails Raila’s role in Uzima University charter during Fifth Graduation Ceremony

End of Pax-Americana; grim days ahead

Rise welfare associations for social capital

After the concert of life, village jingles call Francis Okomo

Mashemeji; the peace marriages of Nyanza Royalty

Namuonja the Manyala who ruled North East Nyanza before we became Kenya

Tanzania crisis shows old power across EAC has lost youth imaginings

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