The controversy surrounding the notice that filmmakers in Kenya must obtain a filming license on or before May 28, 2018 is still brewing, with KFCB and its chair Dr. Ezekiel Mutua continuing to issue confused ..
The fact that the module for film licensing in Kenya has serious problems was brought to public attention when a week ago, on Monday May 14, 2018, Kenya Film Classification Board published a notice that ..
Nurturing Africa’s Growing Private Healthcare Market. Written by Dustin Homer, Director: Client Solutions for Fraym The African socio-economic landscape – much like its geographical landscape – is characterized ..
Last week when travelling from Nakuru to Nairobi I saw the driver tack in a shillings 50 note into his driving licence. I asked him what traffic law he had broken given that he hadn’t carried any excess ..
The Wikipedia list of countries by unemployment rate places Kenya at position five (5) from the bottom, or position 194 overall out of 199 countries. According to that list, unemployment rate in Kenya ..
Huawei P20 Pro is almost out, and it has the best smartphone camera ever made. This is despite the fact that a smartphone is a device whose top two functions are 1. Communication and 2. Content consumption; ..
Ever since I discovered Google Search in 2004, it never occurred to me that there would be a point in time when I would dump Google Search or any of its search services for any other search engine. Prior ..
It must be MPESA that is responsible Kenya’s economic stability since 2007. Let me explain: It can be confidently argued that Kenya experienced her worst economic moments during Moi era. People were ..
This article is in two parts – 1. how hacking of IEBC Servers helped in the rigging August 8th Presidential Elections through manipulation of results from some 11,000 polling stations, and 2 why such ..
Written By Jung Hyun Park, Vice President and Managing Director, Samsung Electronics East Africa The outlook for education in sub-Saharan Africa is more positive than it has ever been, with the region ..
In the course of this electioneering period, we at KachTech Media (owners of Kachwanya.com and Chetenet.com) have made three predictions in regards to Kenya Elections 2017. The first prediction was done ..
The year 2017 will probably be more associated with the forth-coming general elections in Kenya and whatever will happen thereafter but this is also the year M-PESA turned ten. M-pesa was launched ..
Uhuru Kenyatta will trounce Raila Odinga in the forth coming presidential elections with 48% against Raila’s 43%, that is according to the latest Infotrak Research Consulting opinion poll carried ..
It is that time of the year where every one, including myself, rushes to KRA website to file the annual tax returns. By the way if you wouldn’t have filed your tax returns by the end of tomorrow ..
It is exactly 16 days since the official campaigns period for this year’s general elections started. In the last 16 days, we have seen both NASA and Jubilee hit the roads to ask Kenyans to vote for them. ..
Summary stats on failed Jubilee promises Jobs tops the list of failed Jubilee promises. Jubilee promised to deliver 1 million jobs per year. They delivered 804,000 jobs per year. There were 5.1 million ..
There is turmoil in the retail industry in Kenya. Supermarket chains are reporting a drop in revenues, closing some branches in Kenya, closing operations in other East African countries, retrenching workers, ..
A PewResearchCentre 2015 report shows that Kenya’s middle class is plunging deep into poverty. The report shows that while the global middle-income population has doubled, Kenya’s middle class ..
Is ShowMax ready to take over Kenyan entertainment market? That’s the question Kennedy Kachwanya asked our readers on Friday last week, and he went ahead to explain how the business model ShowMax ..
Urbanisation, defined by BBC Bitesize as “an increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas compared to rural areas” either due to rural-urban migration or simply through reproduction ..
By 2017, #MjiWetu Nairobi Kenya was ranked 48 out of 378 by crime index with a crime index of 63.89 and a safety index of 36.11. Compare this to the crime index of 86.61 (safety index of 13.39) for Caracas ..
Times have changed. Kids are no longer constrained of dreaming to become lawyers, nurses, teachers, doctors, accountants, engineers, pilots, and the rest of fun but analogue careers. Today is a digital ..
Surfing the internet looking for facts and information has become second nature to most individuals. With the rise of e-commerce your trips to the local stores have been minimized. Hell yeah, you can even ..
Our devices are our companions right now. We cannot go without our cell phones or tablets. Almost every kid is armed with at least one right now, especially so inKenya where studies have found that smartphone ..
Probably by now you might have heard that the Lumia phones are coming to an end. The key word here is Lumia phones. The Lumia brand that Microsoft was using to refer to its phones. This does not necessarily ..
Are you? But the bigger question, that I’m sure has been asked before is, is this necessary anymore? Rooting used to be a must-do for the daring and brave Android users out there. It was the bootleg ..
What writing apps do you use? Way back, in campus, after my Samsung Galaxy Pocket left me for the world, I took to drafting my blog posts on paper. The blogging blogs said that that was the way; that words ..
Do you listen to radio anymore? Real FM radio (or AM if that still tickles your fancy). I do, but I have a feeling that I’m the last of a dying breed. A breed of radio listeners. Radiomen. I listen to a few choice ..
Many in Kenya, I included, are reluctant to use their cards, whether debit or credit, to settle online transactions. It’s an issue of trust. Trusting these entities with your bank details. How trustworthy ..
There is a guy called Gabriel Oguda. If you don’t know him then you should. Among many other things, he is a prolific writer who mostly writes on Facebook – must read Facebook posts. He’ll ..