Author: James Wambua

The soak of the much-awaited long rains has never found Kenyans more prepared to reverse the current state of food scarcity as farms across the country are coated with greenery of new crop. Farmers are not taking chances with the government unable to secure maize from international market to bridge the deficit and are returning to farms in what may prove to be a huge swing in productivity. While they wait, fearing the ominous warning that the March-April-May long rains may be less than average and with an impending El Nino later in the year, farmers are hoping they will reap enough to sustain them from the country’s worst…

When Ken Musau flew to London late last year, he had high hopes of navigating with ease in UK’s labour market. As it turned out, however, his experience was so far removed from the stories he had heard before of men and women who are making a tidy income from Britain, a country that saw sudden surge in work opportunities following Brexit. “Wiki za kwanza hapa zilikuwa mbaya sana kwangu. Niliumia sana.  I was even contemplating flying back home to continue with my computer repair business in Nairobi,” he said. But as fate would have it, Ken would soon receive a referral to a contact…