2023 - Al Kags — Strategist, Social Entrepreneur, Writer

July 11, 2023

MAONO SPACE: It works!

The Maono Space experiment seems to be working. We could not be more excited. I moved to Malindi in December 2020, and I wrote blog posts about how different things are here. How so many people are going through life without an education. How so ...

March 28, 2023

I am afraid because I remember

I was alive during the Post-Election Violence of 20027-2008. I remember the horror, the helplessness and the fear. I am afraid again today, because I remember. Imagine going from your home to your workplace across town. On normal days, you have to contend with the ...

March 21, 2023

I am going to plant a 100-acre forest.

International day of Forests I am writing this on International Day of Forests, which coincidentally is the first day of the year that we are starting to see showers of rain in a while. In many parts of Kenya - and indeed the general East African ...

March 10, 2023

Podcasts: The boy who tried to kill Queen Elizabeth II and other stories

Did I ever tell you that I have a podcast? One of my passions is to speak to our grandparents, who were young people in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. I wrote some of the stories that were read to me and these were narrated ...

February 28, 2023

Administrative Data and the end of Government Statistics as we know it?

On the sidelines of the UN Statistical Commission meeting in New York, at the Collaborative on Administrative Data for Statistics, I saw the government of the future coming ever closer and faster. Here is my prediction. Yesterday, I attended a lunch meeting on the Collaborative on ...

February 6, 2023

Reframe the conversation: tree cover is the issue

The solution to the challenges posed by climate change lies not only in reforestation efforts but also in increasing tree cover everywhere Listen to the Blogpost here, voiced by an AI reader Trees are vital to combating climate change because they play a significant role in ...

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