Yes, this is another thing about Kenya power and general infrastructure in the country. According to my tonnes of research (multiple refreshing of my twitter stream) most people in our country have been in the dark for the larger part of the week. Furthermore, a discussion I had helped me reach the realisation that the Kenya Power monopoly does not…
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Kenya, A Nation Inhales
Oh bother, Gathara has done it again, he has put to words the things that we, as a nation, seem afraid to say. In his latest blogpost he spoke of the republic of fear. It seems that we are stuck in a nation where to speak, is to be wrong, to write, is to be criticized and to disagree with any “official truth”…
Plans Are for the Weak
In the year 2002 Kenya was promised that the country’s biggest problem would be solved. Education. We needed our kids, so desperately, to go to school. So we voted for the guy. And he delivered. One day he woke up and decreed that education was to be free. That year alone, national enrollment went up 23%. It was tragic. Students…
Africa is Not A Country, but it Should Be
I had one of those blond conversations with an undisclosed individual online. He asked where I was from, I told him Kenya. To which he replied, “That’s a huge city in Africa isn’t it?” I closed the chat window; I had better things to do with my life, like count the number of blades of grass in the lawn outside…
Why The Conclave Have Nothing on #KOT
I watched the presidential debate on Monday with a mixture of glee and intrigue. To be honest I had no idea who I was going to vote for, and I still don’t. That being said I couldn’t just miss the debate. I mean, it’s the presidential debate, it promised to be full of mudslinging; my tribe is being targeted and…
Just Another Presidential Post
I believe the most interesting piece of news I had the pleasure to come across last week would be the story on Zimbabwe’s bank account. After paying their civil servants Zimbabwe looked in the bank and found that they only have 217 US dollars sitting there. That’s slightly less than 20,000 bob. If you were buying diamonds, which the country…
Something About Something Else; It’s Necessary
Last evening a friend of mine said something quite profound: she said that Kenyans don’t understand the concept of war. We see it on television. We hear poems and read stories all over the internet. We even discuss it in our bars. But we don’t understand it. We don’t understand the impact the elimination of a society could have on…
The Businessman May be Gone, But The Entrepreneur is Here to Stay
“When I started this company I was empowered with nothing more than the clothes on my back, a sandwich and a great idea.” That seems to be the prelude of any great company that is worth anything, except Facebook; Facebook was stolen. All successful businessmen seemed to have spent the time in their companies forging through fires and rising from having absolutely nothing to having…
Kenya Doesn’t Need a President, We Need a CEO
The elections are coming up and everyone is sufficiently politicised. As a matter of fact, it is virtually impossible to walk down the street without someone trying to convince you why you should vote for some guy in an odd colour hat. And that’s not even the worst part of it, politics has eaten into social media as well, His…
The Mayan President, if Only Till Friday.
I’ve been under pressure recently to do a piece on the fact that the world is meant to come to an end on Friday – coincidentally the day we close the office. I mean, when I said the day I get a break the world will come to an end I didn’t think that I was being literal. Then again,…