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Rambling about the fishy Kenyan economy. Should we anticipate a crash?

Today, I read a story in the newspapers that Kenyans are consuming poisoned fish, imported from China. Speaking to a friend, I wondered why we are importing fish from China, despite having a vast ocean to our right, a fresh water lake to our left and numerous lakes, rivers and other bodies of water dotted …

Driving from Nairobi to Nakuru (150km) can take 5 hours. Here’s how.

It has taken me 5 hours to travel from Nairobi to Nakuru – a distance of 150km. According to google maps, observing all traffic rules, I should be there in 2 hours and 42 minutes. On other days that I have taken this route it has taken me about 3 hours (because I often stop …

PARLIAMENTARY IMPUNITY: Where is the fury?

It gets worse by the day! First, MPs banded together in Parliament and passed a (nonesensical) resolution for Kenya to withdraw from the International Criminal Justice system at the Hague – in support of 6 people who have been fingered by Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the prosecutor at the ICC. So brazen were they that they also …

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