By Oliver Waindi via LinkedIn The Nairobi middle class is broke. Not poor—broke. And the difference is entirely self-inflicted. The poor person has no money because the system failed them. The broke middle-class person has money. They earn between Ksh 50,000 and Ksh 200,000 a month. They have a job, a title, a LinkedIn profile, […]

By OMBOKI MONAYO As families mourn the tragic loss of young lives caught in the crossfire during the protests on July 25th, there’s a prevailing temptation to dismiss this event as just another unfortunate chapter in our nation’s tumultuous saga. As a newsroom veteran of sorts, I must confess—it’s all too easy to shrug, label […]