Otieno Arudo

Kenya has placed four companies in the 10th cohort of the Google for Startups Accelerator Africa, the most symbolically significant edition of a programme that has quietly become one of the continent’s most consequential launchpads for deep-tech founders. Comana, Duck, ReportsAI, and VunaPay were selected from a pool of nearly 2,600 applications, with a final […]

There is a scene in Back to Us that tells you everything you need to know about the kind of film Jennifer Gatero has made. Amana and Kwame, former lovers thrust together at a coastal resort by conspiring friends, are seated at a table playing cards. The evening has been building towards something. The pleasantries […]

Patrick Mukabi, the veteran Nairobi-born painter, affectionately called Panye by those who knew and loved him, passed away in April 2026 after a prolonged battle with diabetes that had over recent years taken much from him, including, eventually, a limb. He died at Kenyatta National Hospital aged 56. For three decades, Mukabi was the closest […]

The last time a number rewired how humanity understood its own physical limits, it was a British medical student named Roger Bannister who did it on a cinder track in Oxford. That was 1954. The barrier was four minutes for the mile, and for years the scientific consensus had treated it less as a challenge […]

There is a particular kind of energy that settles over a Nairobi rooftop when the city decides to have a good night. The skyline hums, the crowd finds its rhythm, and somewhere between the small talk and the shared playlists, something clicks. That is exactly the atmosphere Spotify engineered when it brought The Feature Mixer […]

The journey of Anil Padia is a narrative of reclamation, spanning from the highlands of Nyeri to the high-pressure ateliers of Paris. Born in Kenya into a family that migrated from Gujarat over a century ago, Padia’s early life was defined by a tug-of-war between cultures. At age nine, he was sent to a strict […]

For two days in May 2026, Nairobi felt what it was like to breathe without its circulatory system. The matatus did not move. Offices sat half-empty. Traders at Gikomba and Eastleigh counted losses by the hour. Commuters who had never walked more than a block to the stage found themselves navigating three kilometres on foot, […]

The gun fires at the Shanghai Stadium on the evening of May 16, and Faith Kipyegon slots into position with the practiced calm of someone who has stood at the front of world-class fields so many times that the nerves, if they exist at all, have long since been metabolized into fuel. Fourteen minutes and […]

The intersection of world-class football and heavy-hitting Kenyan music is about to hit its absolute peak as the countdown to the UEFA Champions League final in Budapest draws closer. Global beer giant Heineken, through its local partner Kenya Wine Agencies Limited (KWAL), has officially unveiled its blueprint to lock down the country’s premier entertainment hotspots […]

Ferdinand Omanyala has officially found his groove in the 2026 season. Taking the track at the Xiamen Diamond League on May 23, Africa’s premier sprinter delivered a masterclass in power and composure, storming to victory in the men’s 100m with a blazing season’s best of 9.94 seconds. The victory was sweet redemption. Having narrowly settled […]