Owners of salt companies are never exposed as part of Who Owns Kenya By Camy Akinyi-Gecaga Contributing Editor Salt is one of the cheapest of home commodities. Its prices rarely change, retailing at Sh5 for decades. It is the one household item bachelors rarely worry about as a packet bought in January is still there-without […]
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The Screaming Room: ‘Umekuja kuzaa na underwear?’… and other choice maternity insults
Cruelty in Kenyan delivery wards includes vaginal examination in public and being left naked after giving birth By Camy Achieng’- Gecaga Contributing Editor Kenyan mothers-especially first time maternity screamers-go through hell at the hands of midwives during deliveries in public hospitals. Besides poor quality services, lack of medical supplies, high costs, thin staffing, long distance […]
First Lady: Where Margaret Kenyatta buys her clothes
She has dressed former First Ladies Mama Ngina Kenyatta, the late Mama Lucy Kibaki and now Maggie By Shifa Mwihaki Feature writer/Essayist Kenya’s First Lady Margaret Wanjiru Kenyatta is now cucu wa Ciru. That is Ciru’s grandmother after her daughter in-law Fiona Achola gave birth to a girl named after her. But cucu wa Ciru is […]