This week, we were celebrating International Women’s Day. Women are an invaluable part of our society, and on behalf of all men, I would like to congratulate all women on being amazing on all fronts. We understand it always hasn’t been easy dealing with predominantly chauvinistic minds around the workplace and home. However, through the […]
-Over the years, our forests have undergone massive deforestation. What used to be acres of green cover has now been replaced by barren land or by other man-made structures. The truth is, many of us are passionate about protecting our forest cover but lag behind when it comes to doing something about it. We wait […]
Governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko has announced that from 20th of September 2017, Public Service Vehicles will not be allowed within the Nairobi’s Central Business District. In a statement, the County Government of Nairobi has directed the PSV operators and the general public that from 20th, matatus will be picking people from various termini including Murang’a […]
The banning of plastic bags in Kenya leaves more questions than answers. We have exactly seven days before the plastic ban is implemented. After Aug 28, 2017, it will be illegal to be found in possession of carrier plastic bags. There are other explanations and exceptions in between such as marked papers from manufacturers are […]
It is 2017. The world is bigger but smaller at the same time. Open but still closed in some areas. The world is bigger in the sense that there is more information and the UK is no longer 8 hours away for example. It is a second away, thanks to twitter. It is open in […]
In Kenyan, we are slowly putting behind the 2017 election period. We know who the winners are and from the statistics, women are still not well represented in electoral seats. This means that there is a long way to go in achieving the two-thirds gender rule. Figures show that for example, only three female governors […]
Women make up slightly more than half of the population in Kenya. Maybe even exactly half of the population depending on which statistics you are looking at and which of those statistics you choose to believe. What this means is that politicians not handling women’s issues are basically ignoring half of the population which then […]
Kenyans can now access information about the government’s development activities at the click of a button; this after President Uhuru Kenyatta launched a public information portal last week at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) Dubbed the President’s Delivery Unit portal (PDU), the website contains details of all development activities, costs, timelines and the status […]
Apathy or what I call the “Why the hell should I be bothered” syndrome is how we react to most things that we feel powerless to change as Kenyans, or we feel that the end result will screw us over anyway. In the upcoming elections, for example, you get the feeling that a lot of […]