Ubuntu PressMay 26, 20206 minBreaking Down in Lockdown Kenya faces an unprecedented mental health and wellbeing challenge in the age of coronavirus By Rand Pearson As Kenya and still much of t...
Ubuntu PressMar 2, 20209 minThe Future of Our 'Ocha' (Part One)Rem Koolhaas, his AMO think tank and University of Nairobi Lecturers re-imagine the possibilities for Kenya's 'avant-garde' countryside
Ubuntu PressNov 6, 20196 minThe Price of PowerHow a lack of 'Energy Justice' in Kenya keeps the poor class down By Mariga Thoithi The cost of energy in Kenya is implausibly high and o...
Ubuntu PressOct 31, 20193 minToo Early for Birds, Tom Mboya Edition, Returns!We saw the first run, here's why it's so damn good and you shouldn't miss the next one
Ubuntu PressOct 28, 20197 min"Ambiguous Citizens" The global discussion about xenophobia hits home By Mariga Thoithi To be a Kenyan Somali is to be a stranger in your own home; it’s a pre...
Ubuntu PressOct 24, 20194 minThe Top Kenya-founded Organisations Working in the Slums Today (and why you should care)The status quo in informal settlements seems like it will remain for a long while to come. But there are organisations that make real impact
Ubuntu PressOct 24, 20194 minMaking Renewable Energy Work in Kenya The government should subsidize solar energy in the same way it subsidizes the national grid."
Ubuntu PressOct 22, 20194 minThe Business Side of a Non-Profit, Social Impact CompanyLivelyhoods is a nonprofit creating employment for disadvantaged youths through sales and distribution of clean energy products
Ubuntu PressOct 11, 20195 minDespite this Bountiful Country, Kenyans are Starving More than 10 million people countrywide, including farmers, pastoralists and fishers, whether living in urban or rural areas, young or old,
Ubuntu PressOct 7, 20192 minA Wrap UP on Macondo Literary Festival and What it Taught Us.Macondo Literary Festival for the first time brought together African writers from Anglophone Africa, Lusophone Africa and Brazil
Ubuntu PressOct 3, 20194 minA 'Too Early for Birds' Press Junket "This lopsided history for example, has been the basis for Kikuyu Supremacy and entitlement to the presidency..."
Ubuntu PressOct 2, 20194 minFive Diaspora Spoken Word Artists You Should Know“When people see Somalia, we've got all this crap about us. Piracy, extremism, Al-Shabaab. Broken state, Black Hawk Down, Captain Phillips."
Ubuntu PressSep 23, 20193 minAfrican Literature Festivals Not to be MissedAgainst popular sentiments decrying the death of literature globally and the lack of reading culture in Africa, African literature continues
Ubuntu PressSep 17, 20193 minWayback Machine Tribalism has been an unfortunate part of Kenya’s history since this time and it almost brought Kenya to its knees in 1992 and again in 2007
Ubuntu PressSep 13, 20192 minSay No to XenophobiaA week ago, a 2015 video of 19-year-old, Cool Zet from Kwazulu-Natal performing on South Africa’s Got Talent resurfaced again and with good
Ubuntu PressSep 6, 20193 minIn a Globalised World, Africa is LosingIs Conscious Trade the solution for local makers and farmers in the face of a globalised world? by Rand Pearson Globalisation as an idea ...
Ubuntu PressSep 6, 20195 minRotting InsideThere’s poison in Kenya’s food chain and it’s killing us slowly. by Mariga Thiothi Several weeks ago, one of Kenya’s most decorated journ...
Ubuntu PressSep 5, 20194 minA (Brief) History of Kenya TradeKenya’s mountainous trade deficit threatens small-scale industry nationwide by Mariga Thiothi/pictures: Julian Njorge Back in the 1980s a...
Ubuntu PressSep 3, 20196 minKenya's Mobile Debt Trap Predatory lending apps are putting many Kenyans through a revolving door of payments. by Mariga Thiothi All economies run on systems of l...
Ubuntu PressSep 2, 20192 minNewton's Organic Farming Dream"We are doing divine work, God's work—I believe we should all embrace organic farming as Kenyans" by Rand Pearson and Edgar Yabunga As th...