Mathew Otieno writes from Nairobi, Kenya.
The answer is simple: lack of capital and lack of education.
Date posted: 2023-03-08
Journalists claim that the military forced 10,000 women to abort the children of Boko Haram terrorists.
Date posted: 2022-12-14
Kenya can see the good side of its colonial legacy. Why can't the West?
Date posted: 2022-10-28
A combination of arrogance and indifference is proving fatal to Western interests
Date posted: 2022-09-13
Government incompetence is no match for religious fanaticism.
Date posted: 2022-08-01
The appalling human cost of the Nigerian Civil War foreshadowed the conflict in Ukraine.
Date posted: 2022-08-01
Africans are outraged by coverage of an outbreak of an exotic disease.
Date posted: 2022-06-22
Another opportunity for virtue-signalling by people who have failed to deliver solutions.
Date posted: 2022-06-06
Early last week, South African scientists announced their discovery of a dramatically mutated variant of the virus that causes Covid-19. By the end of the week, the World Health Organization had designated it as a variant of concern and christened it Omicron, the latest stop on the virus's march through the Greek alphabet.
Date posted: 2021-12-12
COP 26 is a cop-out for the half a billion Africans who have no electricity.
Date posted: 2021-11-22
Why has France supported an unconstitutional coup?
Date posted: 2021-06-04
Marie Stopes Kenya is suing a leading pro-life campaigner for defamation.
Date posted: 2021-06-04
Before April 2018, few people outside Ethiopia had heard about Abiy Ahmed. Then he became the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, removed most of the political restrictions that had weighed down Ethiopians for years, brought a lingering war with Eritrea to a peaceful end, won a Nobel Peace Prize, and led his countrymen in planting a record 350 million tree seedlings in one day.
Date posted: 2021-03-09
Combating the coronavirus outbreak calls for humble innovations.
Date posted: 2020-04-15
When it became clear that the novel coronavirus coming out of China was destined to be a pandemic, international concern quickly zeroed in on how countries with weak health systems, most of which are in Africa, would be affected. It was feared that they would be quickly overwhelmed by the virus and left reeling.
Date posted: 2020-03-20
A three-judge bench at the Kenyan High Court in Nairobi recently upheld sections of the country's penal code that criminalise homosexual intercourse. A suit to repeal these parts had been brought to the court by a coalition of LGBT advocacy groups, which claimed that they contravened the Constitution's provisions on privacy and freedom from discrimination.
Date posted: 2019-06-15
We are a quarrelsome lot, but we know how to rise above it.
Date posted: 2019-01-19
Marie Stopes International has been called to account, but decisive action should follow.
Date posted: 2018-12-26
The continent ranks ahead of the world in some good things too. It has been a long time coming, but more and more African countries and cities are starting to feature prominently on worldwide rankings, and for good reasons.
Date posted: 2017-04-01
The Dutch went ahead with their conference on "reproductive and sexual health" and raised $250 million for abortions in Africa, which nobody needs. If ever there was a list of grossly misplaced priorities, I would be greatly puzzled if this case didn't make the top of it.
Date posted: 2017-03-21
There is a Kenyan joke that goes somewhat like this: Police in Kiambu, Kenya, were overwhelmed by the amount of crime in the county. So they outsourced a machine from the Germans to help them apprehend thieves. It didn't help. The machine itself was stolen. In Kenya the problem has a tribal aspect too.
Date posted: 2016-08-02
Much has been written about the growing population of Africa and its youthfulness. According to the UN's latest projections, Africa will have 4.4 billion people by 2100, accounting for 39 percent of the world's population and almost half of its young people below 14.
Date posted: 2016-03-20