Curtains coming down on Serena Williams’ illustrious tennis career that started in California
Serena Williams has revealed that she is planning to retire from tennis. The 23-time Grand Slam singles champion wrote an emotional article in Vogue where she said she was ‘evolving away from tennis’. The US Open later this month will likely be her final Grand Slam event, she said. “I’m...
When R-n-R music genre took the world by storm in 1960s, it also birthed exceptional guitarists
Choosing one virtuoso above another is incredibly tough, with everything from the Strat to the Les Paul, PRS Custom to the Parker Fly, power chords and tapping. Indeed, it was reported that the topic had prompted a number of intense debates. Although there were plenty of six-string slayers in the...
Veteran journalist lifts veil on how Kenyan president’s residence is a sequel of fornication, witchcraft, murder, graft…
When he was interviewed on Citizen Television’s Wednesday evening talk-show JKLive, former head of Presidential Press Unit Lee Njiru recalled an incident (or accident) that inadvertently hoisted him to a vantage position in former Kenya President Daniel arap Moi’s State House. The Kenyan delegations to a United Nations Conference in...
Reproductive justice? Had I not had an abortion, pregnancy would have hijacked the future I’d worked hard
I am a palaeoecologist at the University of Maine and, like the nearly one in four people capable of becoming pregnant in their lifetime in the United States, I have an abortion story. Even with rates on the decline, it remains a common experience. I became pregnant in 2001 when...
Scrappy management: Employee productivity and retention are directly linked to their direct manager
Gallup research captured in the book 12: The Elements of Great Managing, and expounded upon in Marcus Buckingham’s book First Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently found that the most significant factor in employee productivity and retention is their relationship with their direct manager. This...
