By Brian Muchiri As a budding writer/content creator, I seek to entertain my readers and take their minds off the stress that they may be going through in their lives. I desire to provoke critical thinking and introduce them to deeper, more meaningful conversations. Above all things, I want to add some kind of value […]
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By Tibo Deo Most people called him the tiny bird, messenger, some the confused village boy while others called him a wise boy. He was everything you needed to know about the updated political prevailing situations of the community. I would name him but I liked calling him by his name’- I’mana. I’mana was young […]
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By David Gitari. Peter Drucker once said “If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old” The planet we live in today is evolving fast in technology, the urge to simplify and fasten operations in several industries is strong and intense. Digital disruption is a bad and good thing, this only applies […]
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An advertisement for jobs at the Kenya National Construction Authority (NCA), that was posted on Twitter on 16th September is FAKE. The twitter post advertises 18 positions ranging from architects to secretaries and plant operators among others, that is, more than 1500 vacancies to be filled in various departments of the NCA. The NCA is a […]
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A fake Safaricom spin and win post has been circulating on social media urging people to spin and win money to their M-PESA accounts. The post says “Here’s a chance to get Ksh2800 sent to your M-PESA account from Safaricom’s yearly spin and win promotion “ As you can see the picture above, the poster […]
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By Sylvester Addo Today, we live in a world where everything is moving online and becoming digital because of the fourth industrial revolution. We shop and sell online, chat and meet with family and friends on social media platforms, have business meetings and attend events virtually. The digital landscape has become a necessary component of […]
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By Judy Mbugua 2020 has been a rough year for all of us. For a couple of months, everything seemed to be on a downward spiral. A lot was happening all at once and life left us in a daze. Yeah, Covid-19 happened! Around the world, many people lost their lives. Others lost their sources […]
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By Victor Werimo I would have never thought that the world would come to a near standstill. Not for an hour, but for months. For 7 months, life has not been normal even for the world-leading economies like the United States. COVID came into the world and that was it. Governments have been forced to […]
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By Cynthia Manzi The Kenyan constitution allows for freedom of expression which does not extend in cases of incitement of violence, the propaganda of war and spread of hate speech. It may appear in a paper that as a country we have the freedom of expressing ourselves. Thanks to corruption there has been a rise […]
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By Maurice Gathu Munga A pandemic brings about both negative and positive impacts. Kenya is one of the developing countries that heavily depend on agriculture whilst commercial trading being a major contributor to its economy. Evidently, a number of sectors in Kenya are very essential to delivering services and products to the people. These sectors […]
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By Wendi Ndaki The Coronavirus was first detected in Kenya on the 12th of March 2020. I remember I was at a scriptwriting training in Baraza Media Lab, Nairobi on that day when one of our facilitators broke the news to us. A week later my father was scheduled to travel to Germany for work […]
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By Billy Gibendi Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation have a huge part in our society, we don’t know what is to come. There are things that we do on a daily basis, that robots can’t automate for example love and show compassion, but AI machines are able to work and react like humans. Since AI […]
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By Ann Mbeke Indeed, the lockdown was not a favourable idea or a best practice for anyone whose life revolved outside the house or home. I remember when everyone including my parents had to be home by 7 pm because of the dusk to dawn curfew which was declared by the president. To many people, […]
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By Cavin Odhiambo A few weeks ago I started a Youtube channel called Be The Leader (BTL) to talk about leadership and entrepreneurship. The decision to include leadership as a contemporary was informed by the political temperatures that we experience every year in the run-up to general elections. It has almost become a norm that […]
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On 26th November 2020, a Facebook Page, Sarova Hotels and Resorts Kenya advertised several job openings, which were fake. The page claimed that the hotel is hiring new employees following the reopening of the tourism sector. It says, “WE ARE HIRING!! Following the opening of the tourism sector, we are urgently hiring staff to fill […]
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2020 has been quite different from all the other years and so has everything else been. Fake news also thrived through the period; misleading statements have been all over the internet about Coronavirus that got almost everyone confused. Last week, there were several photos circulating on Facebook about Mombasa running out of burial space within […]
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By Kennedy Odweyo The Building Bridges Initiative report (BBI) needs not an ADS Rifle lense to see that it has sweetly offered a calabash of baits to the common youth(wo)man in Kenya. Its proposals to solving the problems of the youth are not only horrific but also intellectually dishonest and economically negating. It wholesomely and […]
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By Jacob Kinyua. It is no surprise that Merriam-Webster has named Pandemic as the word of the year. The term seems too familiar when used today and we all know what it means. But that was a different case earlier in the year when the pandemic was a technical term used by scientists and public […]
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By Brian Onuonga. Each year, on 1st December, the world commemorates World AIDS Day. People around the world unite on this day to show their support for people living with HIV and to remember those who succumbed to AIDS-related illnesses. World AIDS Day 2020 theme is “Global Solidarity, Shared Responsibility.” The world’s attention has been focussed […]
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The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission(IEBC) has urged Kenyans to verify whether they recorded their information to support the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) or not after the successful submission of the various parties. The commission has this week verified the signatures of the BBI Constitution of Kenya Amendment Bill after a three weeks long review […]
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