Latest opinion stories from across Kenya.
Kenya is moving decisively to professionalize teaching. The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) reforms on licensing, Teacher Professional Development (TPD), career progression, and teacher mobility are welcome, but they raise a deeper…
In Santa Teresa, New Mexico, one elected official has helped stall one of the largest computing projects ever proposed in the United States. Stephanie Garcia Richard, the state land commissioner, twice refused to allow a natural-gas…
By. Eng. Kipkemoi Kibias, NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 6 – After more than two decades in Kenya’s power sector, including leading Kenya Electricity Transmission Company Limited (KETRACO) as the Acting Managing…
By Alison Kadangwe, Project Manager at Change Logic Every business reaches a point where informal coordination is no longer enough. When a company is small, people can make decisions quickly, everybody tends to know what everybody else is…
I participated in the inaugural Friends of Research International Ministerial Conference (FORUM26) in Munich, Germany, hosted by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space and attended by ministers and senior representatives…
As the $16 billion Dangote East Africa Refinery broke ground in Lamu on September 30, 2026, I found myself thinking about something bigger than the refinery. I started thinking about strategy. Is Kenya quietly building the foundations of…
Before 2014, I used Facebook quite a lot. One of my favourite habits was writing posts addressed to an imaginary son. I wanted a specific audience in mind, a male figure to ground my thoughts, so I invented him. In those posts, I shared…
As green energy enters the era of digital assets, global energy is entering a new stage of development. As solar, wind, and energy storage technologies increasingly become integral components of global energy infrastructure, energy assets…
Kampala, Uganda — The world’s business landscape is changing, and one of the biggest changes is happening on screens rather than in shops, factories and offices. For Ugandan entrepreneur Nyanzi Martin Luther, technology has created a…
For several hours after voting ended on 9 August 2022, Kenyan television stations displayed different presidential totals from the same election. William Ruto led on one screen while Raila Odinga led on another. Figures circulating on…
The explosive surge in artificial intelligence and cloud computing is forcing hyper-scale technology companies to confront a stark reality. This is simply because traditional electricity grids cannot keep up with their relentless demand…
On Thursday, September 24, 2026, the Tuscaloosa County Economic Development Authority approved an incentive package for Applied Digital’s Delta Forge 2 AI data center in Brookwood, Alabama. The project represents an investment exceeding…
By Kerissa Varma NAIROBI, Kenya, Sept 28 – The defining cybersecurity challenge of the AI era is not intelligence, but autonomy. As African organisations embrace agentic AI, assumptions that have…
By David Walmsley, President, World Editors Forum, Editor-in-Chief, Globe and Mail | Mariya Gabriel, Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information at UNESCO | Liz Corbin, Director of News, European Broadcasting Union.…
By Robert Mucangi Ndwiga NAIROBI, Kenya, Sept 26 – Migration is as old as humanity. However, it remains one of Africa’s most misunderstood. From pastoralists crossing borders in search of…
Fear of nuclear energy often runs deeper than the facts. But when we look beyond the disasters that dominate public memory, the picture is more complicated: and, in many respects, more reassuring. Ask Mama Wanjiku why she is suspicious of…
Several African countries have demonstrated significant recent progress in expanding women’s participation in higher education, although the scale and nature of this progress differ across countries and academic fields. Where Progress Is…
If I had a penny for every time someone looked at an extremely wealthy person in the public eye and said to me, “If I had that kind of money, I’d go away, live a quiet life, and you’d never hear from me again, I’d be the person living a…
On 15 September 2026, retired Chief Justice David Maraga stood with members of the People’s Coalition on Electoral Reforms at Sarova Panafric Hotel in Nairobi and demanded electoral changes before the 2027 General Election. Their first…
By Shehryar Ali, senior vice president and country manager for East Africa and Indian Ocean Islands at Mastercard NAIROBI, Kenya, Sept 23 – For years, the conversation in East Africa…
By Christopher Arunga, SEPT 23 – Across Africa, young people are already trying to change the world around them. They are speaking up about the issues they care about, organising…
Oracle’s massive AI data center campus in Doña Ana County, New Mexico — known as Project Jupiter — is now 26% complete, up from 17% in July, according to Mahesh Thiagarajan, Oracle’s executive vice president of cloud infrastructure.…
On Sept. 21, 2026, Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to stop issuing permits sought by data center projects until state officials complete audits of their impact on the electric grid and water…
On 17 September 2026, the High Court directed IEBC to give accredited political parties and election observers interim access to specified records within the continuous voter-registration system. The order covered access to source code and…
