Our cultures are unique, and they help us to identify with each other or with particular groups. This is based on our shared understanding, language, art, customs, or world views. In Kenya, we have 43 ethnic groups (of which 13 are major groups) which all speak different languages, inhabit diverse…
Education experts have asked the government to consider the shift system of learning amid overcrowding anticipated in secondary schools next year. With about 2.4 million both from Competency-based Curriculum (CBC) and 8-4-4 systems expected to join secondary school, educationists are proposing the first group of pupils attend school from early…
A Piaggio Ape loaded with oranges, bottled sauces, plant herbs, onions, and pepper hanging on a thread invites us to the Artcaffé Market Rhapta Square in Nairobi. “This is an Italian car however known as a tuktuk,” says Ginevra Ficari of Artcaffé. “The idea is to replicate the Italian market.…
The government now says Moderna's Sh57.5 billion vaccine plant will have a crucial role to play in the fight against other diseases beyond the Covid 19 pandemic amid global glut of coronavirus vaccines. The comments come amid a reported global vaccine oversupply that has crept up across a world once…
Real estate firm Dowgate Properties has set up an electric vehicle charging station in Naivasha, the first outside Nairobi, as it seeks a slice of the rapidly growing market. The station is located at Naivasha Safari Centre, Dowgate’s new shopping mall whose anchor tenant is Naivas Supermarket, along the Nairobi-Nakuru…
Drugs use whether legally prescribed or illegally acquired may have adverse effects on male fertility. The spectrum of these drugs is extensive spanning from legal to illegal drugs. Even clinically prescribed drugs through moderated can have the same effect. Should you be using these drugs and have difficulty initiating pregnancy,…
This week sees the release of a new EP from a young artist who has emerged to chart his career in music inspired by his experiences in life, a deep conviction for his music, and hunger for success. Phinoshey Elber Meso, the 22-year-old rapper, and producer from Nairobi’s Kibera whose…
Equity Group has invested Sh400 million in establishing a subsidiary that will run its insurance business as the Nairobi Securities Exchange-listed firm seeks to diversify from the mainstay banking operation. The company has committed the amount to Equity Group Insurance Holdings Limited, according to disclosures in its latest annual report.…
The planned Sh28 billion redevelopment of Central Railway Station in Nairobi has moved a step closer after the government opened talks with the UK’s export credit agency to fund the project. The British High Commission in Nairobi said Kenya is currently talking with UK Export Finance to fund the urban…
This last Saturday, an 18-year-old white gunman entranced by a white supremacist ideology known as “replacement theory” opened fire at a supermarket in Buffalo, methodically shooting and killing 10 people and injuring three more, almost all of them black, in one of the deadliest racist attacks in American. Identified by…