Everyone Loses Talent to a Higher Bidder — Why Do We Work? There’s an old adage among Generation X university graduates in Kenya that you planned your career around Kenya Airways, Barclays Bank and East African Breweries (EABL). A first job at the brewer would lead to a mid-management role at the bank, and senior retirement job at the airline — or…

There’s overwhelming debate on the interwebs on why colonels lead coups, especially in Africa — Lieutenant Colonel Mamady Doumbouya's seizure of power in Guinea by dethroning President Alpha Conde brought to fore the conversation. Notable examples are Colonel Salou Djibo of Niger, Colonel Assimi Goita of Mali, and Colonel Muammar…

Tanzania is a country of music lovers as well as the home of the cheapest mobile data bundles in Africa. These two facts have been attributed as the main reason for the popularity of Tanzanian music on YouTube. To understand the correlation between the cost of mobile data bundles and…

On Mfangano Street in Nairobi’s Central Business District, stands a nondescript building next to the Ismail Rahimtullah Walji Trust library which hosts a betting depot for Betin Kenya company. Yesternight, throngs of men filled the 50 square foot room clustered around betting stations, eyes fixed on TV screens. On the…

Intel Research Solution Kenya Presidential Opinion Poll Report — When Irish tenant farmers in Mayo County experienced a poor crop harvest in 1880, they turned to their landlord and asked for a 25% rent reduction. One land agent, former British Army Captain, Charles Boycott refused to accede to the tenants’ demands. …

There is a 20 km stretch of road along the A104 highway between Sachangwan and Salgaa in Nakuru County that has gained a reputation as the habitation ground of grisly road accidents. The commonplace blame is on a steep unwinding section of the road that currently hosts a black stop…

If Nairobi is experiencing a glut in shopping malls, then KAPS would the first to know. The company enjoys a near monopoly in managing parking lots for malls in the country — and with that, collect tones of data on mall traffic. …

In 2011, Safaricom Ltd extended the scratch card code from 12 digits to 16 in order to increase the computational time required to break the code thereby making them more secure. However, system theory acknowledges that systems expose their weaknesses at points of change. I set to find out if…