Monthly Archives: February 2023
Foreign trash turning Kenya into plastic dumpsite
Discarded synthetic apparel still finds its way into imported mitumba bales despite stringent restrictions on plastic waste exportsResearch.
Five East African Community (EAC) nations—Kenya, Uganda,...
CEO: Skills, a warrior’s spear for youth employment
For the millions of Kenyan graduands, graduating from TVETS, colleges and universities marks a great milestone in their life. On the flip side, only...
Untrained teachers, scanty resources cripple JSS weeks after inception
Four weeks into the school term, teachers and students in Junior Secondary School (JSS) in Kenya are still grappling with the lack of proper...
Reminiscing Thogoto, Kenya’s cradle of education
Thogoto, a quiet, cool and moderately populated village in the heart of the Kikuyu area, was not the original name of the village that...
BOOK REVIEW: Song of my Dreams & Other Songs
Anthology Title: Song of my Dreams & Other Songs
Anthologists: St. Andrews Creative Writers & Book Club
Selection and Editing: Bonface Otieno
Contacts: standrewscreativewritersclub@gmail.com, +254 746955316
Cost: KES 500
Reviewer: Benvictor Makau
Publisher &...
Corporal punishment: Outlawed yet embraced – decoding the dilemma
Recently, posts of video clips and photos have been going viral on social media showing teachers inflicting disastrous corporal punishment on their learners.
The larger...
GGFI: Accelerating e-mobility vision through awareness, innovation
Kenya is racing ahead of many African peers in phasing out fossil fuel-powered vehicles and embracing Electric Vehicles (EV).
Data from United Nations Environment Programme...
Why government should invest in ECDE teachers, avert proposed pay cut
At least 13,000 Early Childhood Development and Education (ECDE) teachers are set to face a salary cut of more than half as the Salaries...
CRIME: Community Paralegals graduate ready to abate crime, step up justice
According to the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS), there was a 16.7 percent increase in crime reported to the police in 2021 compared...
Poetry Queen: Nakanyike’s rise to the pinnacles of free verse
Everyone’s life on earth is not a mistake; if there is one thing to claim, everyone is born with a purpose, and so are...
