Timothy Pesi

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 overlooked victories

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 business operates.