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Marketing Ability: The Ability Movement

A couple of weeks ago, after having listened to Stephanie Mach, I blogged that one of the key things that must be done to reposition how people living with disabilities are perceived, is to simply show their abilities. Today, in a session with Dale Larsen, I ...

I object: Government cannot regulate politics at parties.

Today, I saw this permit that is required when one wants to host a party during this festive season. I think its a good thing that the government through Nacada has moved to regulate recklessness during this festive season and after and of that I ...

New VAT Law bring savings into my home!

The VAT Act became law in Kenya and was implemented in the past two weeks. With it, came an increase in a number of daily necessities that have seen major changes in my house. These commodities include Milk and Newspapers (among several others) I have not ...

Can we “soup up” the National Anthem?

This article was published this past Sunday in the Daily Nation (Kenya). Last week I attended the admission into the roll of advocates of 72 new lawyers presided over by the Chief Justice of Kenya Dr Willy Mutunga. At the colourful ceremony, I noticed two important things. ...

Let’s Get Serious With Posta Kenya

Remember when? For better or worse, we have a new government and almost certainly, we shall see new leadership for many of the parastatals. One hopes that in the new administration, the new leaders will feel like they have something to prove. One specific area ...

Lessons from KODI: Completing the Job

My friend, Alex Howard from O'Reilly Radar, asked me a question in September last year that I have wrestled with since: "What are the lessons learnt from the Kenya Open Data Initiative experience?"  I have wrestled with this question all of this time because I don't take "Lessons Learnt"questions ...

‘The Failure of Satire in Campaign-period Kenya’

My friend Stephen Derwent Partington asked me to post this on my blog (Squatting has taken on a new meaning I think - you heard it coined here first: Blog-Squatting) and since he's so smart and I have to increase the intellectual value of this blog, ...

This man Sonko… a new kind of leader?

This man Sonko. That he has had three blog posts on this blog, (this being the third after this one and this one), must say that he is making an impact - especially if you examine the changing tone of the posts. I mentioned in ...