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Prepare to Eat Your Locusts! #eatlocust
Being a loyal fan of Terrific Tuesdays with your best girlfriends or nyama choma with the boys goes a long way towards easing the stress of the week in Mombasa or Nairobi, but also comes at a price. Maybe your doctor has started to bring up your diet, maybe you've...
Safaricom Big Box: Big Fail or Big Business Lesson?
When Safaricom announced the launch of their Big Box, a foray into the world of pay tv currently dominated by numerous rival set top boxes, no doubt a lot of us had the same reaction: “...what?”. Safaricom, a locally famous (or as some would argue, infamous for...
Demystifying Risk Management: What You Need To Know
“Risk management” is one of those business terms that are thrown around often but can generally have a very vague and difficult to put down explanation. A commonly accepted definition is self explanatory from the very term, even in the context of logistics. A supply...
#147NotJustANumber A Country Divided
By now we are all aware of the gruesome, heart breaking and unforgivable tragedy that struck one of nation's learning institutions. Right before the Easter break, Garissa University College was invaded by armed gunmen identifying as Al-Shabaab agents, and plunged into...
Welcoming April: The Month in Brief
Being Kenyan for the first three months of 2015 has been...interesting. The month of March in particular has worked extra hard to close out the quarter with a bang and leave the vast majority of us asking, "Wait, what?". The last few weeks of the month have provided...
8-4-4 System And Logistics: The First ‘A’ from Mandera.
I am a backed by the recent outcome or results when the 2014 KCSE was announced, there was jubilation, songs, pomp and color in some parts of the country including and not limited to the disenfranchised Mandera County. Since the literal beginning of the 8-4-4 system...
Can You Milk Something Out of Retrenchment?
News of Co-operative bank's restructuring has gone largely unnoticed by the average citizen: those with a keen finger on the pulse of the business world will know that the company has been focused on widening the gap between costs and income. This effort saw the...
Afrosinema, Kenyan Edition: The Digital Migration Saga
It is safe to assume that a fair number of you had no idea the sudden Monday showers were coming: since many of you have had no access to your regularly scheduled weather forecasts with the 09:00pm news on your favorite local broadcaster. Yes, it is indeed safe to say...
Are You Ready to Walk Home This Week? Logistics & BebaPay
Nairobi commuters are in for a rather nasty shock this week, as the National Road Safety Authority decides to make good on their long standing threat of making the public transportation system entirely cashless. Travelers using 'matatus' anchored from terminals at...