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One of my favourite pastimes is to log onto YouTube and watch videos about lands far away and absorb their lifestyles, architecture, dressing and food. Most times I invite my teenage daughter to watch these with me and look at the fascination and wonderment evident in her face and in her questions. I have always […]

The world over is undergoing one of the most challenging health, economic and social crisis due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It is during such times that families bear the brunt of crises- taking care of the vulnerable in the family members and out-of-school children, all the while ensuring that they still earn their daily bead. […]

One of my earliest childhood memories is attending the Win A Car dance competition at Bomas of Kenya in 1990. I was about six years old, but the memory stands out because it was a really big deal back then, and I vividly remember the crowd going wild when Rare Watts took the stage. They […]

Very few people knew what the Coronavirus was in January. Some believed it was a virus the Chinese got due to eating bats and others though that it was a manmade virus created by the Americans to hurt the Chinese. What no one knew was the effect it would have on the world. As of […]

‘The United Nations designated 21 April as World Creativity and Innovation Day to raise the awareness of the role of creativity and innovation in all aspects of human development. The creative economy includes audiovisual products, design, new media, performing arts, publishing and visual arts. There may be no universal understanding of creativity. The concept is […]

2 days ago, a Kenyan man died upon receiving treatment, after being beaten up for sneezing in public. The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is observed annually on the day the police in Sharpeville, South Africa, opened fire and killed 69 people at a peaceful demonstration against apartheid “pass laws” in 1960. […]

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” ~ Margaret Mead, 1901-1978. Anthropologist The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) began celebrating Zero Discrimination Day in 2014 as an effort to ensure that no person is discriminated against […]

You have heard the term before. You’ve probably asked yourself what it means and whether it is something you should be concerned about. The answer to that is yes: Social Justice is every single human being’s responsibility. Everybody contributes to society and this contribution needs to be respected regardless of one’s gender, religious affiliation, race […]

Malcom X aptly said, “Education is our passport for the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” A lot has changed since his America and none of this would have been possible without systemic improvements in the education sector. Education is a basic human right as stipulated in article 26 […]

Modern slavery The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery is a yearly event commemorated on December 2, and organized by the UN. The Day was first celebrated in 1986. Unfortunately, slavery still exist in this day and age, but different from what we knew it as. According to the  International Labour Organisation (ILO) more than 40 million people […]