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A teenager’s pregnancy changed the destinies of two people forever.

Here's the story of how Benjamin Katana dropped out of school to become a breadwinner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc9w9dPUlPk Benjamin tells the story of how he became a breadwinner When I started telling you the stories of Kenyans who don't exist despite the fact that you see them every day as ...

To thrive, professionals must go rural

https://twitter.com/__sammich__/status/1411246935151976455 This week I took interest in seeing a tweet by an engineer who I understood to express tongue-in-cheek, her frustration in being unable to find “innovative engineering” work. This, she said, despite having gone to university for 5 years. I took a moment to ask ...

Thoughts that preoccupy me

In the course of living my life, I am usually preoccupied with key life questions that guide my thoughts, work and impact. This is a list of the issues/ questions that I am considering. I share them in no particular order.  1. How can government truly be by ...

These are ways to make people count

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote here about Mama Furaha, a woman that I met that does not officially exist and how many people don't count. I have so many more stories of real people and I will be telling you about them. One ...

KBC’s Problem is not it’s logo

Maybe now it is, a little bit... Kenya's national TV broadcaster, Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) Television has rebranded for the second time in two decades. The new look station now features veteran anchor, Catherine Kasavuli, who was the Belle of TV as I was growing up ...

There are people who don’t exist (Story 1)

The story of Mama Furaha and her group (Kilifi County). There are people who live in Kenya but don't exist. Mama Furaha is 40 years old this year - at least that is her estimate because she is not exactly sure which day she was born. ...

Kiama’s arrest by overzealous cops, is wrong

I learnt with much concern about the arrest of Human Rights Advocate, Mutemi wa Kiama. He was arrested because he created a poster that purported to be a notice to “the world at large” that President Uhuru Kenyatta “is not authorised to act or transact ...