It appears to be Kenya’s official policy to export labor abroad by advising more youths to seek external opportunities. As you’d expect, however, little time is spent discussing the implications of such policies or whether the country loses or wins in the long term. The most obvious point is that…

Every once in a while, the issue of single motherhood among the Kikuyu comes up on Twitter, with many observing that single-parent families in Central Kenya have reached crisis levels. It is unclear what could cause such demographic peculiarities, especially one presumed to afflict only a single community. …

When new nations are born, important decisions must be made, and critical political and economic systems must be chosen. At the height of the cold war, when new African nations were born, the choice was between capitalism and communism. These decisions were made, and the fates of most countries were…

The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics recently released the Kenya Poverty Report based on the 2021 Kenya Continuous Household Survey. The report contains data on Kenya’s poverty rate and a further breakdown of poverty rates per county. Like most government reports, the data presented doesn’t highlight associations between variables, which…

It’s time to get down with this question, does Kenya have a middle class? If it exists, how big is it, and what are its prospects? Depending on who you ask, people provide many answers to the middle-class question. The World Bank, for example, ranks Kenya as a lower-middle-income nation…

I asked ChatGPT AI about Kenya and what it thinks about some thorny political issues in the country. Even though it shies from providing opinions, this is what it had to say about corruption, GMO imports, KDF deployment, and DRC. First, the classic question. These solutions sound like what you…

The cabinet secretary for education recently announced the government will stop funding universities and that they should look for alternative sources of income. Critics however argued this plan would cripple our human capital and dim our hope for growth. In this article, let’s assume the government stops funding universities, what…

Expert Consensus Public views of scientific topics tend to vary depending on how well scientists communicate their findings. An enlightened populace is desired in every country and there’s no better way to achieve that than through the public acceptance of scientific facts. …

It is a truth universally acknowledged that every man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. -Jane Austen Wealth and Marriage Word on the street has it that men should not marry until they are finacially stable. Since getting married and starting families has become relatively expensive…