After decades in the doldrums Nakuru County is bracing for a slice of the pie in Kenya’s booming tourism industry
Among the areas to be revitalised is the Kariandusi Prehistoric Site that is nestled in the heart of Nakuru County, a treasure trove of ancient history that offers a glimpse into the lives of the early Man. This site, known as the “factory of tools,” is renowned for its abundance of Acheulean hand axes, some of the oldest known tools crafted by modern man’s ancestors.
Designer babies: While fertility businesses are selling better chance of domestic bliss, families are feeling cheated
I’ve counselled a number of those families in the past 10 to 15 years. People who have children this way often place too much importance on genes while ignoring the environment. It’s like, “This is what our family is going to look like. We’re going to pick a kid, and this is how we’re going to put it together. Mom’s going to be in charge of the whole thing.” It’s like a project or building a company. People don’t always realize they are creating a human being and not a piece of furniture.
Climate change forces Kenyan Maasai herders, famous for their culture and love for barbequed beef, to embrace fish
Among the Maasai and other pastoralists in Kenya and wider East Africa – like the Samburu, Somali and Borana – cattle are also a status symbol, a source of wealth and part of key cultural events like marriages as part of dowries.
Why science is revisiting ‘21 Grams of Life’ theory to back up ‘mystery of flight of human soul’ after death
After centuries questioning the religious mantra that every human body has a soul, scientists are gradually acquiescing to the mystery of metaphysics that supports religious belief that there is something in the human that departs the body moments after death. The phenomenon is known as “The 21 Grams of Life”...
How ‘Other Backward Classes’ tag derived from caste system stalls diversity in science in India
Samadhan is an outlier in his home village in western India. Last year, he became the first person from there to start a science PhD. Samadhan, a student in Maharashtra state, is an Adivasi or indigenous person – a member of one of the most marginalised and poorest communities in...
Colonial pitfalls of vaccination: How a health system perpetuates historical marginalisation and political humiliation
In Covid-19 vaccines, we have an extremely impressive piece of biotechnology. But they won’t do their job if the health system ends up perpetuating historical marginalisation and political humiliation. People get uneasy when the vaccinator shows up and says they must have a “jab”, especially while other forms of healthcare...
Fight against malaria in tropical regions ramped up with WHO approval of first vaccine in Africa
In a momentous and long-awaited decision, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended the wide rollout of a malaria vaccine to protect children in Africa. That opens the way for countries to decide how to use the vaccine, the first ever to be approved for a parasitic disease, as part...
Ethiopia ready to annihilate Tigray and Oromia after acquiring Iranian-made unmanned aerial vehicles
In the latest effort to halt the advancing Tigray Defence Force (TDF) and Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), Ethiopia is said to have purchased several Iranian-made Mohajer-6 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Plant SkySat satellite images analysed by Bellingcat.com identified two Mohajer-6 UAVs and a Ground Control Station (GCS) at Semara airport...
Rhumba Big Bang: Franco and Verckys split that reshaped African industry music forever
A rebellion in Orchestra Oscar Kashama (OK) in 1968 gave Africa rich a cultural diversity that lives on to this day.It happened when OK – later renamed Orchestra Kinshasa – band leader Luambo Luanzo Makiadi (Francois) was away on a business trip in Europe and forever changed the course, tenor...
A Nigerian’s public outcry against graft is proportional to distance to dabble in it
On June 13, 1988, Pini Jason Onyegbaduo (1948 – 2013), a popular Nigerian columnist, propounded a “Hypothesis of Corruption.” The hypothesis was intellectually articulated in the now-defunct THISWEEK newsmagazine. But unknown to Pini Jason, he had developed what would become known as the “Jason’s Law of Corruption.” The “Law” would...
