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The big debate on Competency-Based Education was about the placement of junior secondary, teaching methodology, and examinations, not the content.
Let’s address the prospects of this year using the funnel approach, from broad to narrow issues. Men are more conversant with a funnel, usually an old plastic bottle with the bottom ripped off.
Fruit farming has been neglected in Kenya despite its great potential. We have perfect weather for fruits.
The pronouncement that the United States will control Venezuelan oil, about 70 per cent of which currently goes to China, explains the US determination to control the Venezuelan economy.
The price of land in major urban centres has made it economically sensible to build in the countryside where amenities like roads and power are now available
Most parents with Grade 10 children are running from one school to another, one county to another, looking for a “good school.”
The 2022 polls were about economics, and so will be the 2027 elections, and the government seems too aware of that and is unlikely shy away from flexing its economic muscles.
An open space can be configured in many ways, and tent makers have been very creative. Movement is less restrictive and photography is much better!
The elevated Standard Gauge Railway, which allows animals to move freely between parts of the Nairobi National Park, much like an elevated expressway saves lots of space.
The fear now is that China will slowly kill the internal combustion engine by mass-producing cheaper electric cars.
When shall we start respecting rural folks for owning their houses, with or without affordable housing?
If China dominates the electric car industry and AI, it will upend the long-held belief in the superiority of Western civilisation.
Unfortunately, the most affected by “who do you know” are the hustlers, the men and women who have never built any networks.
The fact that Epstein was both a financial consultant and a convicted sex offender makes any connection with him murky.
If Safaricom and NCBA’s sale goes through, South Africa will control a big chunk of Kenya’s financial market, including M-Pesa.
The Central Bank of Kenya's advisory on the use of banknotes in decorations provoked my economic instinct
Rising waters at Lake Bogoria signal the growing force of nature and the urgent need to confront environmental change.
It’s expected that with low rates, banks will take the cue and lower their lending rates.
It is assumed that the small and micro enterprises that define the Kenyan economy are independent, but they are linked to the formal economy.
Kenya’s economic decisions and governance trends have fuelled perceptions the country is effectively “up for sale”.
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