President Uhuru Kenyatta (right) and his Deputy William Ruto during formation of Jubilee Party on September 10, 2016 at Safaricom Stadium Kasarani. While the governing Jubilee Alliance put on a show of might to signal the merger of some dozen affiliates into a single political party, the opposition Cord tried to steal some of the thunder by staging its own fiesta in Mombasa. This might have forced some othe ...

The World Wide Web, an avenue for information. Digital media is likely to dominate the global and, indeed, the local scene up to the next century. The digital revolution has taken the 21st Century by storm. Few saw it coming. It is the engine that drives what has come to be known as the “knowledge economy”. It is redefining lifestyles and how business and people relate. It is driving down under traditional ...

Maurice Matumo (left), Co-operative Bank of Kenya's director of retail and business banking, with the financial institution's partners in diaspora business at the launch of its Diaspora Centre at Co-operative House in Nairobi on April 14, 2016. One asks: “Can an election that structurally and deliberately disenfranchises 15 per cent of eligible voters be ‘free and fair’ under any circumstance?” Over the pas ...