Many years ago, in an office long-since knocked down, on Museum Hill, I sat in a meeting where my contractual partner ripped up our contract. He didn’t do it physically. But he told me the contract was ‘over’ and I could sue if I wanted to, but it would take me  8 years, cost me […]

During the country’s biggest building programme since independence, the building dividend to Kenyans is minimal. Yet, at root, sits a single unsolved issue. Kenya has too few plumbers, electricians, painters, steel fitters, tile layers, joiners, masons and welders, and we cannot organise ourselves to train them. Youngsters from low-income homes triple their incomes when they […]

I made a mistake, last week, and watched the videos, showing the arrest of a young black man, Tyre Nichols, by a team of seemingly hysterical Memphis police officers who subsequently beat him to death. In fact, I only watched the first minutes, it was so heart-wrenching. Only later on, in just one news story, […]