Share this… Facebook 0 Pinterest 0 Twitter Linkedin 0 Telegram Whatsapp It is the year 2026, and everyone is complaining about high electricity bills. I would be lying if I said I am not. The electricity bill has become quite expensive. We also talk about water shortages while shaking our heads at rising living costs […]
Share this… Facebook 0 Pinterest 0 Twitter Linkedin 0 Telegram Whatsapp All deaths hit hard, but when the cause is suicide, grief often takes on a more complicated shape. It is not only defined by the absence of the person, but by the overwhelming presence of questions that seem to linger long after the funeral
Share this… Facebook 0 Pinterest 0 Twitter Linkedin 0 Telegram Whatsapp We all know how mother’s day is celebrated. Idealised; we speak of love and sacrifice, of the quiet strength of women who raise families and shape futures. And it is true, most women have raised children single handedly, sometimes with barely nothing, they themselves
Share this… Facebook 0 Pinterest 0 Twitter Linkedin 0 Telegram Whatsapp In what world does it make sense? A continent that feeds the world’s future, whose soil is rich with cobalt, lithium, gold and rare earth minerals, minerals that power everything from smartphones to electric vehicles cannot provide it’s citizens with life saving treatment for
Share this… Facebook 0 Pinterest 0 Twitter Linkedin 0 Telegram Whatsapp There was a time when the television did one thing, and did it predictably. You turned it on, flipped through a handful of channels and watched whatever was scheduled. That was it. No choice or control, and definitely no conversation about design. Fast forward
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Share this… Facebook 0 Pinterest 0 Twitter Linkedin 0 Telegram Whatsapp As xenophobic tensions resurface in South Africa, a bold open letter by Mohammed Hersi is reigniting debate across the continent. I will start with my fellow Africans, because you deserve honesty more than sympathy. Every year and I mean every single year you are
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Share this… Facebook 0 Pinterest 0 Twitter Linkedin 0 Telegram Whatsapp For years, Kenya’s public debt has existed as an abstract figure quoted in trillions and debated in policy rooms. We watched huge numbers being thrown around as if they never concerned us, maybe a deliberate act meant to keep citizens in the distance where
Share this… Facebook 0 Pinterest 0 Twitter Linkedin 0 Telegram Whatsapp They say the dance of a madman at the village market is always funny until it is your relative that is the mad man. Then it stops being funny. We used to hear of corruption in other countries and shake our heads at it.
Share this… Facebook 0 Pinterest 0 Twitter Linkedin 0 Telegram Whatsapp For a continent that is richly fertile and deeply rooted in agriculture, Africa should be leading from the front in this quiet revolution. Its economies are still closely tied to the land and its people remain connected to farming not as an industry but
Share this… Facebook 0 Pinterest 0 Twitter Linkedin 0 Telegram Whatsapp I would be lying if I said this is why I stopped bothering with dates. To be perfectly honest, that would be me just scapegoating (if there is such a word) but this sits pretty at the top there with other reasons. It was
Share this… Facebook 0 Pinterest 0 Twitter Linkedin 0 Telegram Whatsapp Nairobi, Kenya – April, 2026 Ngemi returns this May with a season that feels more deliberate in its direction, expanding its cultural footprint while making space for a wider range of experiences. Rather than a single event, this year’s edition unfolds in two parts,
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Share this… Facebook 0 Pinterest 0 Twitter Linkedin 0 Telegram Whatsapp Nairobi’s cocktail culture is getting a focused spotlight this April as Monkey Shoulder rolls out Old Fashioned Month, a citywide experience built around one of the world’s most enduring cocktails. The month long campaign stretches across more than 25 bars and restaurants in the
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Share this… Facebook 0 Pinterest 0 Twitter Linkedin 0 Telegram Whatsapp I recently had my first electric motorbike ride (I know, I know, I am a bit late to the party) and I have to admit that I was not prepared for how comfortable it would feel. There was no aggressive engine noise and even
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Share this… Facebook 0 Pinterest 0 Twitter Linkedin 0 Telegram Whatsapp On a Friday night in Nairobi, Burudani Address filled with a crowd that knew exactly what it had come for. That is; good music and a reason to stay a little longer than planned. This was the latest edition of the Gilbey’s Hangout. The
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Share this… Facebook 0 Pinterest 0 Twitter Linkedin 0 Telegram Whatsapp Until recently, most of us had never heard of the Strait of Hormuz. It was not a place that lived in our everyday awareness and if we are being truthful, not something we were taught in school. But here we are now. It has
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Share this… Facebook 0 Pinterest 0 Twitter Linkedin 0 Telegram Whatsapp Is the Kenyan government painfully unaware of emerging talent in non traditional sports or is it simply structurally incapable of supporting them? Because what is becoming clear with time is that this government selectively invests on whom it deems worthy, choosing to fund only
Share this… Facebook 0 Pinterest 0 Twitter Linkedin 0 Telegram Whatsapp In a Funeral, whether you like it or not, you have to pause. Funerals gather us abruptly into the reality of loss, asking us to sit with something we spend most of our lives avoiding. And yet, for something so inevitable, very few of
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Share this… Facebook 0 Pinterest 0 Twitter Linkedin 0 Telegram Whatsapp In theory, school holidays sound better, right? We romanticize about spending time with our little (or not so little) human beings and think of all the fun things we could do and all the fun places we could visit. In practice however, while children
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Share this… Facebook 0 Pinterest 0 Twitter Linkedin 0 Telegram Whatsapp There is a girl on TikTok who has been keeping a running list of all the things that can go terribly wrong during pregnancy. I have to admit that initially the list was kinda hilarious, until people started sharing evidence that the points she
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Share this… Facebook 0 Pinterest 0 Twitter Linkedin 0 Telegram Whatsapp School holidays are supposed to be fun. There is a certain kind of joy that fills the air when schools close. It is evident in how light children’s laughter becomes as they spill out of classrooms for the last time that term, their days
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