Malls have become the new playground of both the rich and the poor.

The recent crackdown on illegal immigrants in Kenyan is being celebrated by Kenyans who believe they take our jobs. How many jobs have they taken up?

We must also bring down our definition of wealth as the only route to fame and heroism

Some of the services ran by this outfit included railways and harbours, post and telecommunications, customs and excise, income tax, scientific...

The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) report ranking the counties on corruption, which closely mirrors Transparency International (TI) rank

A good example is gross domestic product (GDP) which in simple terms is the monetary value of all goods and services produced in a given country in a given year.

In the past, county councils were famous as repositories of uneducated or pseudo educated men and women.

Cement is a key input in modern construction and has a long history. Ancient Egyptians and Romans used rudimentary ‘cement’ to bind stones.

Anti-establishment (hostility to conventional social, political, or economic values or principles) seems to be the new normal. In India, the Gandhi dynasty has been silenced by voters. Philippines has a new president sympathetic to extra–judicial killings. The same pattern extends to the rest of the world.

One reason we are so tribal and prone to inter-tribal conflicts is because we do not have a sense of national pride. Apart from athletics, where else do we derive our national pride? The liberation War that was Mau Mau is a source of national pride, but it is being attenuated by time and parochialism. One failure of our leadership is stirring national pride. Tribalism and other vices have filled the vacuum.

The world looks surprised, even shocked that United Kingdom (UK) voted to leave European Union (EU) after enjoining it in 1973. My take is that no one should be surprised. Leave campaigners successfully hinged on history and fear.

Tiger Woods popularised golf to non golfers. He is slowly getting off the radar. Like all other games, performance in golf rises with age, reaches an apogee and then declines.

The coming together of foreign envoys to render their support in the war against graft shows the seriousness with which everyone is taking graft or corruption - except us.

Donald Glaser won a Nobel Prize in physics in 1960 for, among other things, inventing the bubble chamber used to detect sub-atomic particles (you will recall these if you did not sleep during your physics lessons). It is claimed, though he refuted it, that he got the inspiration to design the chamber from beer.