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

Youth Agenda

Digital literacy graduands posing for a group photo at Ches Bay Resort in Port Victoria Budalangi Constituency Busia County after their graduation recently. They say the six-week training was a life-changer. PHOTO/Courtesy.

How government’s digital literacy training is transforming youths’ lives

The Ministry of Youth Affairs, Sports and Arts has embarked on a digital literacy training program targeting youths from all 47 counties nationwide. Speaking at Ches Bay resort in Port Victoria town during the...
Sarah Munyi, President, Youth in Africa, during a past event. PHOTO/Courtesy.

Harness deliberate effort to bridge gender gap in technology

International Women’s Day is celebrated worldwide on March 8 every year. It aims to create awareness of multifaceted challenges and discrimination facing women. The theme for 2023 is Innovation and technology for gender equality.  Despite the...
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...

Why youths should focus on acquisition of practical skills

Gone are the days when employment was immediately secured within one's first week after graduation from a university, college or tertiary institution. There were days when even Kenyans with form four certificates were sure to...

Patience Poni: I want to be the next UN Women Executive Director

Patience Poni Ayikoru, famously known as Pesh Poni is a young Christian law student, feminist peer educator, and servant leader nurturing a new generation of purpose driven leaders. This writer had a word with...

Why Kenyan Graduates Feel Let Down by Government

Many people go to school in the hope that education will offer them a better future.  Even so, the level of joblessness is going up as time keep on clicking. David Muiruri, one of the...

A look at Uganda’s upcoming author, publisher

'A chick that will grow into a cock can be spotted the very day it hatches,' so goes an African proverb. This is the proverb that invades my mind as I write about Daniel Tusiimukye...