Facebook officials had internal research in March 2020 showing that Instagram – the social media platform most used by adolescents – is harmful to teen girls’ body image and well-being but swept those findings under the rug to continue conducting business as usual, according to a Sept. 14, 2021, Wall Street Journal report.…
The little piece of malicious code called the Covid 19 Virus has changed more fundamentally than we would have expected and anticipated but happen it has and it is, therefore, time to reanalyse how we work and interact going forward. One major change, that was predicted to happen by 1999,…
I find it necessary to write down what is happening in the political arena at this time because we clearly know that our politicians have selective amnesia. I am doing this so that when reading this you will look at this at whatever time and realize how they like using…
The recent announcement of wide-ranging reforms at the University of Nairobi predictably triggered a new bout of student protests. The cost-cutting reforms propose a smaller administrative team, the abolition of a third of its colleges and higher tuition fees. The proposed reforms have also elicited protest from academic and administrative staff. They…
The coronavirus pandemic changed the way people all over the world accessed abortions. As lockdowns and other restrictions made it difficult to seek in-person terminations of unwanted pregnancies, some countries made-at-home abortions more accessible. In France, the government temporarily changed the law in April 2020 to allow at-home abortion until seven weeks…
In a country where the media is filled with negativity and what MPs are doing every weekday, it is easy to be drowned in all this content and miss opportunities available. I am definitely in the camp, my social media feed is filled with so and so is dating nani,…
So I recently went to refill my 13kg gas cylinder with around Kshs 2000 in my pockets confident that I would at least have pocket change for airtime. Shocker unto me, I did not even have enough money for the purchase. The owner of the store calmly told me, ‘…
As an academic working at a university in Kenya, I’ve witnessed at first hand the massive disruptions to learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The situation is not unique to Kenya. Universities in neighbouring Uganda, Rwanda and Ethiopia are similarly affected. Kenya has over 70 universities, 38 of them public and 35 private. Over 500,000 students were…
Have you ever felt left out, ashamed and afraid to show a part of yourself to society since they will view you differently? Have you also felt that you were better than someone else because of a characteristic feature they had and in a way made them feel that way?…
I was recently listening to a conversation Dickson Morande held on YellowTape. This conversation can be found on Aqute Media and other podcast streaming platforms. It is a podcast I would highly suggest that you check out, it is informative. So the conversation I was listening to concerned the fair…
