Most Useful Farming Facebook Groups in Kenya (for me)
I don’t usually do lists, or advice, but I thought I might share some of the Facebook Groups that I have found to be most useful for me as a new farmer. This is a basic list with no order. Africa Farmers – Most relevant content and a large community of practicing farmers with useful …
Thinking about Hewlett Foundation’s Strategy and Decolonising Philanthropy
In this blogpost, I decided to be a bit presumptive – to pronounce myself on the idea of decolonising development (and by extension, philanthropy) and to make comments on Hewlett Foundation’s Transparency Participation and Accountability Strategy for the coming five years. First, A Short story “What do you fund?” A relative of mine has been …
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 When I started telling you the stories of Kenyans who don’t exist despite the fact that you see them every day as you walk and drive around, I started with this blogpost in which there was a story of Katana, …
To thrive, professionals must go rural
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 her what she meant by “Innovative engineering” and she defined …
in Me, Thought Leadership
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 the people for the people? I am pondering what …
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