1. Think and work smarter

A weak currency is bad for any economy. Look at what has happened since our shilling started experiencing a beating—everyone went into panic mode and accusations started flying. The government through Treasury and Central Bank swung into action...

Tuesday, 01 November 2011 | 257 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report | More...

2. Somebody tame this dollar

As we went to press, the shilling had touched an all-time low of Ksh.102 to the US dollar. This is frightening; the last time our currency nose-dived that low was during the Goldenberg scandal, and even then it stopped at Ksh.100. With...

Monday, 03 October 2011 | 270 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report | More...

3. Extraordinary Procedures

It may take considerable time between the time of service of summons and setting an action down for trial. In practice, the process of exchanging pleadings and discovery may take a long time; moreover there are always delays even after a matter has...

Saturday, 01 October 2011 | 49 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report | More...

4. Spruce up, aid is nigh

Top on the list of SME’s woes is lack of access to financing. Financial institutions have in the past regarded SMEs as high-risk borrowers and are very cautious in lending them even meagre amounts which to write off wouldn’t be a big bother.

Thursday, 01 September 2011 | 323 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report | More...

5. It’s time to give

Way back in 1984, we were fed on yellow maize. Drought was so severe then but at least money was not as scarce as it is today only that there was almost nothing to buy with it. Today, there is no food in most parts of the country; neither do we have...

Monday, 01 August 2011 | 360 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report | More...

6. It’s time to go County

The implementation of the new constitution now seems to be in top gear. Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta, when presenting the 2011/2012 Budget brought it out clearly that the government is devoted to seeing to it that the aspirations of the said constitution are...

Friday, 01 July 2011 | 374 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report | More...

7. Here comes funding

Conventional financing paradigms have for decades blacklisted SMEs as high-risk borrowers. As a result, financiers have been generally biased toward large corporate borrowers, who provide better business plans, have credit ratings, more reliable...

Thursday, 02 June 2011 | 480 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report | More...

8. Step aside, please

The 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner is anything but happy: Professor Mohammed Yunus has been suspended as the CEO of the Grameen Bank that traces its history to some 27 dollars he loaned 42 women in 1976 thence launching what is modern day...

Friday, 01 April 2011 | 490 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report | More...

9. Peculiar; must we be?

That Kenyans have peculiar calling habits is a comment made by a former mobile telephony CEO a few years ago in regards to our practice of ever jamming mobile phone networks every Friday evening. The observation may still sound a cliché but look...

Friday, 01 April 2011 | 504 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report | More...

10. Information is power

The way the adage that ‘information is power’ is applying to Africa is proving to be a comedy of sorts. In West Africa, we have a country with two presidents; one ‘rules’ from a hotel while the other stays put in the official residence of...

Tuesday, 01 March 2011 | 615 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report | More...