On average, 255 children are born every minute around the world. Every year, 15 million babies are born too early, with 1 million never making it to their next birthday. In low-resource settings, the outlook is even direr; half of babies born at 32 weeks or earlier will die; whereas in high-resource settings, almost all … Continue reading Kenya to benefit from wireless sensors that monitor neonates
Category: Human Interest
Human interest
How to ensure your safety online
As at September 2019, there were 52 million internet subscriptions in Kenya. Out of the total data subscriptions, 99.3% were mobile data subscriptions. A report by the National Kenya Computer Incident Response Team Coordination Centre revealed that 25.2 million cyber threats were detected in the period between July to September 2019. So how does one … Continue reading How to ensure your safety online
Remembering Mama Lucy Kibaki
I never bothered to study the history of Kenya’s second First Lady until I sat down to do this story. An interesting fact I soon found out is that we share the same birth month and day. This iron lady was born Lucy Muthoni Kagai on January 13 in 1936 in Mukurwe-ini, Nyeri County. She … Continue reading Remembering Mama Lucy Kibaki
Why DK Kwenye Beat and Hopekid could rot in jail
The jail term that awaits Hopekid and probable life imprisonment sentence that ought to be passed to DK Kwenye Beat should be warming up right now. I should have been surprised when I heard the news, I should have struggled to believe the rumors, once they came out, that two gospel artistes were being accused … Continue reading Why DK Kwenye Beat and Hopekid could rot in jail
How Wilkins Fadhili threw media industry into a spin and the lessons we need to learn
Kenyans have an odd way of dealing with setbacks. During my college years, whenever comrades felt aggrieved by the administration, after all diplomatic ways of trying to get grievances addressed proved futile, student leaders knew one language that would indubitably deliver the message; comrades’ power. The main gate of the only university sitting on the … Continue reading How Wilkins Fadhili threw media industry into a spin and the lessons we need to learn
The Journey Begins
Thanks for joining me! Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton




