In Kenya there are about 15 medical doctors for every 100,000 persons, a ratio that is quite low. Due to this, people seek other alternative sources...
“Daktari amesema mulete pesa ya mafuta.” (The doctor says bring money for fuel.) The officer in charge said this in a matter-of-fact way. We knew we...
Last December, I went to Ethiopia for a networking event, the South-South Media Lab. At Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, I must have dropped my...
When you come across the term ‘fake news’, you will most likely think it has something to do with politics. This is because the majority of...
This documentary seeks to lift the veil surrounding the practice of traditional and alternative medicine and answer the question: Does it work?
This ‘Brazen: Reflections’ series was born out of a desire to continue the conversations springing out of the ‘Too Early For Birds: Brazen’ theatre performance in...
Corruption, waste and a reliance on Western charity have conspired to leave Africa dealing with 25 per cent of the world’s diseases with under 1 per...
The approach to provision of universal healthcare demonstrates that Kenyan political leaders are yet to develop a coherent philosophy to shape the nation’s development agenda. By...
The goal of universal healthcare must take into account how Kenyans access and pay for health services, and eschew the concept of “world class” as a...
In 2008, the Namibian government launched a pilot universal basic income project known as the Basic Income Grant (BIG). The results were amazing, with crime rates...
In December 2010, my mother was admitted to an established private hospital in Nairobi for what we considered a routine surgery. This surgical procedure was the...
