Ben Oroko

As various state and non-state education actors express disappointment with the negative culture of student indiscipline cropping up in secondary schools across the country, it equally saddens me watching our young and brilliant school children resort to acts of violence under the guise of airing their grievances. This trend is a cause for alarm not only for the affected parents,...

The coffee industry in Kenya used to be regulated and controlled by the government before it was liberalized in the 1990s, following pressure from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Before its liberalization, the government regulated the sector through the Coffee Board of Kenya (CBK), the Kenya Planters' Co-operative Union (KPCU), among other key stakeholders whose operations were controlled by the...