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

Kenya

Vendors and customers in the mitumba business. PHOTO/Courtesy.

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, Tanzania, Burundi, and Rwanda—announced a concerted plan in 2016 to...
Ian Muthomi, the Founder and CEO, Visiondrill. PHOTO/Courtesy.

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 25% of them get absorbed in the labor force and...
Just a month into JSS, the maiden class has faced serious challenges with resources, understaffing of teachers and their insufficient training, among myriad others, making the progress challenging. PHOTO/Courtesy.

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 resources required for successful studies. Denis Opiyo is one of...
The missionary PCEA church in Thogoto, Kikuyu, where the cradle of education found its bearing and home. PHOTO/Njoroge Njuguna, The Scholar Media Africa.

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 now boasts tens of learning and other institutions distributed in...
Through the Children Act 2022 (section 25 (3) (b) (c)), Kenya formally repealed the right of parents and others to "administer reasonable punishment" to children; corporal punishment shall not be inflicted upon a child by any person. PHOTO/Courtesy.

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 audience of concerned stakeholders and the government has criticized this.  Some...
GGFI founder, Ratemo Mabeya, holding the EV charging infrastructure they have developed for use at GGFI. PHOTO/GGFI.

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 (UNEP) confirms that air pollution is the most significant environmental...
If effected, an ECDE teacher of certificate level will earn between KSh. 7,836 and KSh. 11,467 for job groups between F and L. PHOTO/Courtesy.

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 and Remuneration Commission (SRC) came up with a new salary...
Elizabeth Marube of National Police Service (in blue) and Zainab Abdul, a Principal Magistrate, pose for a photo with graduands during a community paralegals graduation at Sarakasi Dome, Nairobi, courtesy of Sheria Mashinani Initiative. PHOTO/Crime Si Poa (CSP).

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 to 2020. The total crime cases reported to law enforcement agencies...
The cover of the Mourning Glory novel by Prof. Egara Kabaji. He is a Literary Communication Professor, based at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST). PHOTO/Courtesy.

BOOK REVIEW: Mourning Glory

Author: Prof. Egara Kabaji Title: Mourning Glory Contact: egarakabaji@gmail.com Cost: KSh. 500 Publisher and Year: InterCEN Books, 2022 Reviewer: Mbukha Shitemi Prof. Egara Kabaji’s new novel, Mourning Glory, is a heart-rending story that will bring variegated emotions in how it treats the pain,...
Front cover of A Silent Song and Other Stories, one of the new set books for Kenyan Secondary Schools. PHOTO/Bonface Otieno, The Scholar Media Africa.

BOOK REVIEW: A Silent Song and Other Stories Part 1

Title: A Silent Song and Other Stories Selected & Edited by: Godwin Siundu Published by: Spotlight Publishers E.A Limited Publication Year: 2020 The Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) is a summative test examination that students are tested...