The Biggest Heist in History If you are a student of African history, then you must be already in the know that in 1884, Germany, together with other European countries held a conference in Berlin (the infamous Berlin Conference). In this conference, they plotted how they were going to invade countries on the continent of…
The most sizzling news in the macadamia sub-sector in the month of April has been the Government of Kenya through the Ministry of Trade deciding to rescind the ban on the exportation of unprocessed macadamia nuts. In my previous take on this, I tried to shed light on some of the distortions of fact which…
Sweet Music for Easter Weekend Over the Easter weekend, the Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for Trade, Mr. Moses Kuria lifted the twelve-year ban on the exportation of raw macadamia nuts from Kenya. This move can only be compared to a visit to an accident scene by would-be rescuers whose good intentions could not only cause more…
In contemporary times, there have been phenomenal developments in food production, and general changes in lifestyle which have in part been accelerated and necessitated by the Covid-19 outbreak. It is argued here that the wake of Covid-19 will see a world so different from whatever we have known, and this could be the vice that…