For decades, Kenyan households have cooked in a haze—literal and economic. The humble kitchen, the heart of family life, has doubled as a frontline of deforestation, indoor air pollution, and chronic health risks. Yet over the past ten years, something quietly radical has happened. Clean-cooking access has tripled, rising from a meagre 12% in 2014 to 34% . In a development landscape obsessed with grand infrastructure and political theatrics, this is one of Kenya’s most overlo

Gold has bewitched humanity for millennia—adorning crowns, backing currencies, and more recently, fueling financial hedges. But as this glittering metal edges toward $4,000 an ounce in 2025, one question sparkles brighter than ever: how much of it is actually left?

Not too long ago, “the cloud” was a fuzzy metaphor tech marketers used to describe servers we didn’t want to think about. Fast forward a decade, and it has become the beating heart of the digital economy. In 2017, global cloud infrastructure revenues hovered at a modest $50 billion. By 2024, they’d ballooned to $330 billion, according to Synergy Research. What was once a niche IT utility is now a planetary-scale industry—one that’s quietly redefining how every byte of modern

In the lush, cool highlands of Kenya, where the mist lingers over ridges of green and red soil, Irish potatoes are both a humble meal and a national treasure. Yet, behind the comforting crunch of chips and the simmering warmth of mashed potatoes lies a curious economic story — one where less has somehow become more.

Africa is no stranger to wealth, but the distribution of high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) across the continent is as uneven as its rainfall. Some countries have built deep pockets, others are still reaching for loose change. The new African wealth report reveals where millionaires and centi-millionaires (those with $100m+) call home—and it tells a story of economic concentration, legacy industries, and a dash of inequality.

Migration is East Africa’s most underrated export. In 2024, millions from the region are living abroad—not as tourists or exchange students, but as long-term émigrés. For some, leaving is a desperate sprint away from violence. For others, it’s a calculated leap toward opportunity. Either way, the boarding gates of Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Juba, and Khartoum are telling a bigger story about what drives East Africans to pack up and go.

Few things illustrate China’s modern agricultural story better than fertilizer. Back in the 1960s, when food security was a national obsession, fertilizer use per hectare was barely a blip on the chart—just a sprinkle. By the 1980s, as reforms unleashed productivity, Chinese farmers were practically showering their fields with nitrogen, potash, and phosphate. Fertilizer wasn’t just an input; it was Beijing’s magic bullet to feed a billion mouths.

Two centuries ago, schooling was less a right and more a status symbol. In 1820, fewer than 1 in 5 adults worldwide had received any basic education. For everyone else, survival skills—ploughing, weaving, and dodging famine—were the curriculum. Reading? That was for priests, bureaucrats, and the occasional eccentric who thought books were more fun than bread.

For 70 years, Natural Language Processing (NLP) has evolved from simple rulebooks to powerful neural models that write code, answer questions, and compose poetry. What started with hope and heuristics is now reshaping industries — and conversations. This is how NLP went from naïve to probabilistic to neural.

In Kenya, bribery isn’t just a moral issue—it’s an occupational hazard. Whether you’re a student, a government clerk, or running a roadside kiosk, your chances of encountering corruption vary wildly. According to the Kenya Bribery Index 2025, your job title may just predict your exposure to extortion. And while some are largely insulated, others are paying the price—literally.

In 2023, Kenya reported 223 new cases of tuberculosis (TB) per 100,000 people—a rate more than 20 times higher than most wealthy countries. But a different number tells a deeper story: Kenya’s TB case fatality rate was 20% in 2023, down from 47% in 2005. Fewer are dying from TB, even as infections remain high. This drop is a quiet public health victory, built not on eradicating TB, but on improving survival. It marks a turning point: Kenya hasn’t won the war, but it has drama

Kenya’s political old guard just got hit with something they didn’t see coming: emojis, data bundles, and a generation raised on YouTube. As the country reels from the Gen Z–led protests of 2024 and a powerful commemoration protest on June 25th 2025, one thing is clear—Kenya’s future is now fluent in hashtags, literacy, and civic tech fluency. And no, this isn’t just about TikTok videos and Instagram Lives. This is about a structural shift in how governance meets its match in

Once upon a time in Kenya, every village had a football team worth of children in every homestead. Fast-forward to 2022, and the once-vibrant Kenyan cradle is getting quieter. Behind this hush lies a silent demographic revolution. The Total Fertility Rate (TFR)—the average number of children per woman—has plummeted from a raucous 6.7 in 1989 to a rather restrained 3.4 in 2022. This is not just about babies. It’s about what kind of Kenya we’re building.

Once the hallmark of solemn vows and sacraments, weddings in Kenya are undergoing a silent yet profound transformation. The traditional march down the church aisle, long viewed as the standard rite of passage, is now being increasingly bypassed—not out of heresy, but out of hard economic reasoning.

Debt has always worn a suit of irony—designed to bring growth, it often ends up choking the very system it sought to elevate. Kenya, like several of its African peers, now finds itself not merely servicing debt, but practically hosting it as the guest of honour at the fiscal dinner table. A recent UNCTAD report has put it plainly: Africa’s most vulnerable economies are not just paying interest—they’re bleeding revenue into it.

When it comes to oil diplomacy, Iran is both a pariah and a powerhouse. Sanctioned, squeezed, and sabre-rattling its way through the...

In the grand library of human progress, literacy is the index page. It tells us who’s ready to read the future and who’s still decoding the alphabet soup of systemic neglect. Globally, we've made impressive strides—an 87% literacy rate in 2023 is not just a statistic, it's a testament to our collective leap forward. But amid the rising tide of global enlightenment, Sub-Saharan Africa is still wading knee-deep in a swamp of educational disparity.

In an era where smartphones are practically extensions of our hands and QR codes have replaced handshakes, one might expect financial services to have gone fully digital. But not so fast. SACCOs (Savings and Credit Cooperative Organizations) are telling a different story — one with ink-stained passbooks and queues at the branch counter.