American writer Barbara Tuchman remarked that “war is the unfolding of miscalculations.” As part of those calculations, the value of each of the lives lost to war should not be measured any ...

The average Kenyan does not speak in policy. Most policies that are tabled, often, if not always, go over people’s heads, not because people can’t read, but because there is simply too much going on ...

The language of economic policy is designed to obscure. Fiscal consolidation sounds responsible, even prudent. “Structural adjustment” suggests repair, improvement, optimization. “Widening the tax ...

Hungarian voters have overwhelmingly rejected the 16-year rule of authoritarian strongman Viktor Orbán, electing his one-time political ally, Péter Magyar, to replace him. Magyar’s Tisza party has ...

The students’ main grievance, that they were being trained for jobs that did not exist, highlighted a growing disconnect between academic programmes and labour market realities. These economic issues ...

Banking in Kenya dates back to the pre-colonial periods. The first banks largely concentrated on financing international trade along the Europe-South Africa–India axis, but later diversified ...

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” Antonio Gramsci In 1994, I was a fresh, naïve, graduate of a Bachelor’s of Education degree, believing ...

In the face of the Ethiopian government’s failure to comply with the provisions of the Pretoria Peace Agreement, the TPLF must urgently seek to have the accord amended and demand its enforcement. As ...

The lack of a focused policy since the 1990s has pushed the cashew nut sector into perennial decline. The sector’s disintegration started when the state-owned Kenya Cashewnut factory ollapsed in 1997 ...

Corruption, however you define it, is so integral to the way human commercial and political affairs play out that all major global developments in its regard have been driven by geopolitical shifts.

A series of infections during my primary school days saw me return to the local public hospital for medical attention regularly. Over the course of these visits, accompanied by my mother, I observed ...

The government has backtracked on a directive that was, ironically, issued by President William Ruto when he was Kenya’s agriculture minister. In 2009, Ruto banned the export of unprocessed macadamia ...