Dormitory fires appear to be a staple worry for parents of children attending boarding schools in Kenya and Tanzania. However, the situation is worse in Kenya. Imagine, within just 24 hours of the fire that claimed 16 young lives and left over 80 others injured at Utumishi Girls Academy, Gilgil, some 170 kilometres from Nairobi…

Dormitory fires appear to be a staple worry for parents of children attending boarding schools in Kenya and Tanzania. However, the situation is worse in Kenya. Imagine, within just 24 hours of the fire that claimed 16 young lives and left over 80 others injured at Utumishi Girls Academy, Gilgil, some 170 kilometres from Nairobi…

We were walking on a gentle pace revealing a diversity of the landscape, forests, wetlands rocky plains and a high Mt. Meru dotted with game. The shimmering Momela alkaline lake has again attracted flamingos, crown cranes and another unique shorebird with its distinctive black and white plumage and the thin upturned bill the pied avocet….

My grandfather, Chief Nyerere Burito, who led the Zanaki community of Butiama between 1915 and 1942, had 22 wives and four concubines – a reality that complicated his encounters with early Christian missionaries arriving in the region during the early 20th century. When told conversion required him to keep only one wife, he politely declined…

Signing a long-term agreement can feel like getting married, everyone is excited at the beginning, nobody wants to discuss what happens if things go wrong and both parties hope the roof doesn’t start leaking unexpectedly. For landlords, the key concerns are simple: Will the rent arrive on time? Will the property still resemble a building…

For a number of years in the past, cross-border phone communications have been attracting a host of roaming charges. The justification for this is that if for example you are calling someone in Kenya from your Vodacom network, your network will rely on a partner network in Kenya to connect the call and the two…

As usual in this column, I like to dig into the wisdom of our ancestors so that you and I can find food for thought and to guide our life experience. Today my memory goes to the indigenous education in which my parents and grandparents were raised. A fraction of that indigenous education has been…