By Stacy Gachanja Across Kenyan households, women perform the bulk of unpaid care and domestic work. Time use surveys by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) indicate that women spend about 4 hours 30 minutes daily on unpaid care and domestic work, roughly five times more than men, who spend about 54 minutes. This gap begins in childhood and widens…
By Donghun Lee For Africa, the idea of the “smart home” has long been framed as a distant aspiration. This is with most predictions tying this transition to high-income households and advanced infrastructure that is yet to arrive on the continent. However, that perception no longer reflects reality because smart living is rapidly becoming a…
By Dr. Edna Chawiya In Kenya, approximately 58 percent of people plan to celebrate Valentine’s Day, with average spending expected to reach around KES 9,000. This figure may appear modest in isolation, but it becomes more significant when viewed against broader economic realities, rising living costs, and the demographic reality of a young population navigating…
By Francis Maina The recent collapse of a multi-storey building in Nairobi’s South C is yet another grim reminder of Kenya’s long and painful history of preventable building failures. Sadly, this tragedy is not an isolated incident, but part of a recurring pattern that continues to claim lives, destroy livelihoods and erode public trust. A…
