2025 Intake Open University of Kenya
2025 Intake Open University of Kenya

Kisii County

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Dr. Beverly Durgan, the Dean of Extension at the University of Minnesota, with Prof. John Akama, Kisii University Vice Chancellor, during a courtesy call to the VC upon arrival on January 23, 2023, ahead of the one-week tour to Kisii and surrounding counties. PHOTO/Courtesy.

Ties strengthen as Minnesota University team visits Kisii University, environs

Kisii University, located in Kisii County, has continued to enjoy a fruitful partnership with the University of Minnesota for over a decade now. A recent visit to the University by a team of three from...
Members of the Purity International Ministries Group, an initiative helping widows and widowers in Kisii Town, receiving Christmas gifts on December 24, 2022, at the Pentecostal Evangelistic Fellowship of Africa ( PEFA) Kisii Cathedral grounds. PHOTO/Courtesy.

Celebrating Through Sharing: A case of Purity Int’l Ministries charity initiative

Christmas festive season has always been a time of celebrations and merriment. You might, however, be surprised to realize that while you are profusely having fun, surrounded by abundance, joy and laughter, there has always...
Entrance to the Unaitas Kisii Branch Sacco. The financial facility has been a go-to sacco for farmers, investors, SMEs owners, parents and groups for loans and deposits. PHOTO/Elijah Nyaanga, The Scholar Media Africa.

How Unaitas Sacco is upgrading clients’ livelihoods

Founded in 1993 by farmers from the Central Region of Kenya, growing, rebranding and permeating over the years into all corners of the nation, Unaitas has become the go-to deposit-taking Sacco for hundreds of...
Anti-Gender-Based Violence activists marching along the Kisii streets in a past event. They have been on the forefront in sensitizing the Gusii community to do away with the ‘cut’, due to its dangers to the victims. PHOTO/Ben Oroko, The Scholar Media Africa.

FGM ‘medicalization’ derailing war against the vice in Kenya

With increasing public awareness and education campaigns on the adverse health risks associated with the traditional Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) procedure and greater access to healthcare services, unethical healthcare workers in some rural parts...
From Left: Dr Robert Mainya, GCFCU C.E.O, Ms Park Soyoung, the South Korean Embassy to Kenya official and Mr Kang Sunggyu, Director Greenbeans Company, hold a press briefing at the GCFCU Headquarters in Kisii after signing a trade deal on direct coffee export from Kisii to Korea. PHOTO/Ben Oroko, The Scholar Media Africa.

Gusii Coffee Union, Korean Company trade pact raises coffee farmers’ expectations

Kenya has two distinct coffee trading systems: the auction system and the 'second window', Kenya's direct trade system. Direct trade between farmers and international buyers has become more popular in Kenya's coffee industry in the...
Madam Lydia Onyoni, the late principal of Rangenyo Girls’ High School in West Mugirango Constituency, Nyamira County in a recent interview with The Scholar Media Africa at her office. PHOTO/Dan Nyamanga, The Scholar Media

Colleagues, friends mourn fallen Principal terming her lovely, go-getter

Hitherto in unknown circumstances, the life of Lydia Onyoni, the Principal of Our Lady of Mercy Rangenyo Girls’ High School in West Mugirango Constituency, Nyamira County, was snatched from us. Madam Onyoni is alleged to...

Nyabite D.O.K, where trees speak about varsity entries

As its peers in the world of academia celebrate their good performance in Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations and university entry grades through road shows and prize awards, Nyabite Mixed D.O.K Secondary...

Cardinal Otunga High School Mosocho on the road to reclaiming former glory

Cardinal Otunga High School Mosocho was established following a request from the then Kisii Diocese Bishop, His Eminence Maurice Cardinal Otunga in 1957. It was meant to host missionaries teaching in the new diocese carved...

SURVIVOR: I overcame Gender Based Violence to tell a story

According to Gender Violence Recovery Centre, Gender Based Violence is any act that results in physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering. This includes threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivations of liberty, whether...

How Prof Bagaka’s “Read Baby Read” initiative is equipping Children

For a long time, the derision has been that "if you want to hide something from Africans, hide it inside a book!" However, this can change especially if stakeholders in the education sector could encourage...