Ksh. 7 Trillion later and countless promises, the Kenyan Treasury finds itself stuck with spiralling debt, depressed demand and resultant business downsizing and job losses. The...
As in other neoliberal cities, the remedies for significant economic burdens are individualized and the political economy that scaffolds them often remains hidden from view. Instead,...
The US is supervising a coup in Venezuela. The pretext: Nicholas Maduro’s brutality, the state’s record of widespread human rights abuses, does not wash. In August...
Ultimately money is a social contract DAVID NDII argues. And though Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies may yet emerge as transformative disrupters of human and economic relations, certain...
If knowledge and human capital are the engines of economic growth, what is the role of the foreign investment and infrastructure edifices that our governments are...
In the past, opening a bank account in Kenya was an elaborate and tedious affair. It was akin to applying for a job: you presented your...
In January 2018, at the annual Makerere University Tumusiime-Mutebile Centre of Excellence (TMCE) Business Dialogue, the Ugandan Minister of Internal Affairs, Ruhakana Rugunda, stated that Uganda...
The spread of mobile phones across Africa has been one of the continent’s success stories over the past two decades, transforming lives through better communication and simpler banking....
If you read and listen to the coalition of business groups and finance pundits in Kenya, you will by now know that the nullification of the...
