Slightly more than one year ago, Kenya got tangled in the global pandemic, when the first COVID-19 case was diagnosed. Thereafter, cases started springing up all over the place. The government eventually declared that the virus was in the community. Whatever they meant by that statement is not really important. Next was the declaration…
In a previous post, I wondered aloud if the Kenyan macadamia processing fraternity was particularly anathema to research. In this post I further discuss possibilities to research as presented and ignored by the Kenyan processors. This is surprising especially in cognizance of the face of a potentially shrinking market for kernel as traditionally presented to…
Sometime last week, a WhatsApp group I belong to, shared some interesting observations. It was an incisive and critical look at the development trajectory of our universities, in comparison with other established institutions such as Oxford, Harvard, Princeton, and their cohorts. The crux of the argument in this particular piece of ‘gossip’ was that by…
In a previous post, I referred to a research conducted in 2019 by the CBI (The European Union body charged with promoting exports to Europe from the developing world). This is another installment in a series of posts that are going to take a critical look at this research and the opportunities and queries that…