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Articles By: Steve Biko Wafula

The School Parents Were Leaving Became the School They Were Queuing For

A school with empty desks is one of the saddest things a community can see. A school with a waiting

Entrepreneur's Corner

· Nov 4, 2026
The Matatu Conductor Has Competition—and It Isn’t Another Conductor

The Kenyan matatu industry has perfected many things: creative route names, loud music, astonishing levels of improvisation and the ability

Entrepreneur's Corner

· Nov 4, 2026
Your First Investment Doesn’t Need a Suit, a Broker or Sh50,000

There is a particular type of financial advice Kenyans hear far too often: ‘You need to start investing.’ The advice

Investment

· Nov 4, 2026
Your M-PESA Receipt Is Not Your Biography: How Safaricom Is Making Privacy and AI Work for Kenyans

Your phone number is not a public announcement. Your full identity is not an optional extra to be handed over

Technology

· Nov 3, 2026
Nahashon Mungai: The Man Who Changed The Investment Landscape with SIB

Kenya is very good at celebrating success after it has become impossible to ignore. We can also be spectacularly suspicious

Entrepreneur's Corner

· Oct 22, 2026
They Laughed At The Plane, The Car And The iPhone. Kenya, Do Not Bury Your Big Idea.

Somewhere in Kenya, there is a young person who has written a business idea in the back of an exercise

Entrepreneur's Corner

· Oct 18, 2026
Dangote Must Not Let Ruto Put His Lamu Refinery Above the Law

Aliko Dangote should make respect for the law a condition of his investment in Lamu. He should demand documentary proof

Government and Policy

· Sep 30, 2026
Why Kenya Should Make Room for the Future Gibson Munene Could Build

Kenya has good reason to celebrate a young person who develops the ability to solve ordinary problems. Gibson Munene Njine’s

Opinion

· Sep 29, 2026
Affordable Housing Is Not Industrialisation: Why President Ruto cannot rewrite the fundamentals of economic transformation

President William Ruto is entitled to defend affordable housing as a social and construction programme. He is not entitled to

Opinion

· Sep 28, 2026
Why Supporters Want Edwin Sifuna in the Presidential Race; It Is About What Kenyans Want & They Want Sifuna, PERIOD

Sifuna’s greatest mistake would be settling for the deputy presidency. For us, the destination is State House, and we will

Government and Policy

· Sep 25, 2026
Your Business Has Enough Drama Without the WiFi Joining In

How Safaricom Pata More brings speed, security, and everyday value to Kenyan small businesses A customer can forgive a slightly

Investment

· Sep 24, 2026
36.3 Million Accounts, One Big Dream: How NCBA Is Turning Everyday Banking Into a Platform for Kenyan Ambition

CBK’s 2025 data puts NCBA at 45.0% of commercial-bank deposit accounts. Behind that headline is a deeper story about scale,

Entrepreneur's Corner

· Sep 24, 2026