Kenyan lifestyle publication covering relationships, culture, wellness, travel, careers, business and personal development.
Mobile betting has become a regular part of life for many Kenyans, with smartphones making it easy to place a wager on a football match or wait for the outcome of a race from anywhere. With so many apps competing for attention, it can be…
“Hey, Rose. Please tell your followers to stop it,” read the message. It was one among the many @badkarmateller25 had sent her. She looked at it. Three dots…nothing. Three dots…nothing. The user on the other end felt crushed. They were…
Getting a pay rise should be good news. So should getting a better-paying job, landing a lucrative client or growing your business. But there is a financial trap that often comes with earning more -lifestyle creep. Lifestyle creep, also…
Building wealth is often presented as a matter of earning more, saving consistently, and investing wisely. But sometimes the biggest obstacle isn’t a lack of money or opportunity. It’s the habits, decisions and beliefs that quietly keep…
When most people hear the word insurance, they think about what happens when things go wrong: a car accident, illness, death, disability, fire or another unexpected event. But insurance can play a much bigger role in your financial life.…
Retaliation was the most frequently alleged basis in EEOC charges in fiscal year 2024, appearing in 42,301 charges, or 47.8% of everything filed with the agency. Workers who raise pay concerns can face it too. Picture a worker who notices…
Growth rarely breaks a business all at once. It shows up as a lead nobody followed up on, a forecast finance does not trust, or a customer record that exists in three spreadsheets with three different phone numbers. As customer data, sales…
Every online order depends on a payment that goes through. A store can have strong products, good pricing, and steady traffic, but if customers hit declined cards, limited payment options, or a confusing payment step, they leave. Reliable…
Green is one of the most unusual hair colors you can find. Depending on the shade, it gives off different vibes. You can be a forest fairy, an electric alien, or a mystical gem in it, as long as you get the right product. So, you can’t…
There were three missed calls from Tabitha, his sister. Daniel was ageing now. He’d probably forgotten where he’d placed it often, or he’d forgotten to put a ringer back on after having it silent in church the previous day. The reason…
Your phone can be your health companion. In recent years, more people have been using digital health-tracking apps to monitor their health. Fuelled by a collective rise in wellness awareness and an increase in chronic illnesses, people…
Joyce needed to go so bad. All three in the ladies’ section were occupied. She listened, watched out for any signs that someone was inside, then tiptoed into the gents’ side. The urinals came first, then three doors followed. She picked…
You work hard for your papers, you pick up new skills, then you seek out employment opportunities and pray that you land at a company that pays enough to sustain you. Each of those steps lines up, and you are now salaried. It’s what most…
Kila mtu anajua chenye kilimleta Nairobi, they often say, and Sandra lived by this phrase. As many doom-scrolled mindlessly, Sandra scoured social media hawk-eyed like a predator looking for prey. When she wasn’t on socials, she was on…
Waithaka’s, the local bar, was their regular meeting point. Each of them had a regular schedule at Waithaka’s, but Saturday was the day that brought them all together. Jonah had the demeanour of a middle-aged adult who came from affluence…
Jane started her first period on a dull afternoon during a biology lab lesson. She felt she had ‘bloomed’ rather late since she was already in high school. In her primary school, the girls who had entered womanhood earlier were treated…
Salome welcomed Gillian when she was posted to the same school—a day school in the middle of a rural village. Gillian hadn’t taught at a mixed school before. This was her second posting after spending the first decade of her teaching…
In 2022, about 1 in 4 children under the age of 21 lived with just one of their parents, and the other parent lived outside of the home. In 2023, the parents in these single-parent households received $28.0 billion in cash child support.…
“Maybe love isn’t like lightning; it can strike twice,” thought Abigail. She had been on five dates with Henry. This was the third man she had dated since her divorce from Luka. The first guy had a problem with the fact that she had a…
Praises poured out of her family’s mouths as soon as the money left her account and went into one of theirs. That was one of the two times they said good things about her. The second one was when she did things for them that were an…
One could cut through the tension in the office with a pair of scissors. Martin and his colleagues adjusted their postures like a classroom on hearing the teacher on duty’s heels clink and clank in the corridor. They could smell Phillip’s…
Cognitive bias is a systematic error in thinking. It affects how we receive and process information, how we form and protect beliefs, how we interpret our experiences, and how we respond to change. These biases happen because our attention…
One of the most popular types of diet content online is “what I eat in a day.” Content creators record themselves eating what they eat in a day. It may also include meal preparation, grocery shopping, calories consumed, and suggested meal…
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…
