It’s around 11 pm, and I’m riding in a Nairobi cab, sinking into the familiar rhythm of the city’s nighttime pulse. My cab rides often provide an unfiltered lens into the realities of life on these streets, each conversation revealing another layer of the gig economy, the unseen struggles of those powering it. Some drivers…More

According to various news outlets, AI had actually detected the corona-virus long before the world’s population knew what it was. According to forbes.com, On December 31st, a Toronto-based startup called BlueDot identified the outbreak in Wuhan, several hours after the first cases were diagnosed by local authorities. The BlueDot team confirmed the info its system…More

Bitange Ndemo a professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Nairobi, citing an article by Olivia Goldhill (Doing well in school is nothing to be proud of) noted how high achievers feel validated when results correspond to their achievements. Referring to this study by Olivia Goldhill, he notes that most cultures in modern times treat…More

“The word “good” has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.” ― G. K. Chesterton detours my thinking to an anomaly which is the basis of my thoughts about ethics…More

When you are chatting with somebody on WhatsApp, sending that work E-mail or posting pictures on Instagram, do you ever stop to think about how this process happens in bridging the gap or how many different computers you are using in the process? Apart from the computer you are using to send the E-mail and…More

A few years ago inside this ballroom, we call a brain, hype about gigabit speeds that will let you download full-length movies in mere seconds, raced like a track for cars that speed without worry for the next turn. Now, this hype is a reality. I introduce you to 5G network. The advancement in wireless…More

Tuesday afternoon, a twitter user Izzy Obeng tweets, “One of the biggest barriers black people face is having a lack of role models in tech — and that’s not because they don’t exist. It’s because they aren’t getting the attention they deserve: in the news, in our classrooms, on panels”. Replace the ‘black’ with ‘Africa’ and you…More

Autonomous vehicles hence a driver-less Uber at your doorstep at the push of a button, Self-healing power grids, pizzas delivered by drones, 3D printed houses, and many more; who would have thought, 20 years ago? That this virus automation would rampantly spread and shake the industrial space and the workplace. Well, it is not news…More