Orals East Africa

10/08/2025

I KNOW HOW TO GET KISUMU ON ITS FEET

One thing I have learned handling the pressure of hosting the biggest outdoor parties in Kisumu is how to manage expectations and make decisions based on a financial plan.
When you start, you start with a ka certain amount and make some profits, then now you want to take it bigger. So you are thinking, I made profits do I put all this back?
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06/08/2025

Earning season, when banks stop lending

The August announcements of half year banking earnings will be a key labour market indicator in the sector as lenders move to contain costs to compensate for the lower earnings.

https://oralseastafrica.news/earning-season-when-banks-stop-lending/

04/08/2025

August Outlook; Can Kenya kick its troubles down the football
Six out of ten Kenyans place their bets on football, which is huge for a country that sends Kes100 billion annually on gambling.
The African Nations Championship (Chan) may gift Kenya with a burst of glory, a new champion and a chance for communal glory that could pull Kenya to a collective.
https://oralseastafrica.news/august-outlook-can-kenya-kick-its-troubles-down-the-football/

08/07/2025

Can Kenya bear the cost of annual tax insurgence

Kenya's economy may have yet reached its limits to accommodate the extraction of taxes at the rate required by the restive global markets without looking like outright slavery and colonial
https://oralseastafrica.news/july-outlook-can-kenya-bear-the-cost-of-annual-insurgence/

07/07/2025

We were told the future lay inland — but the lake has always been the beginning.”
The ancient waterways that opened up the interior to trade.

https://oralseastafrica.news/magazine-viewer/?magz_id=9287

05/06/2025

Meet our Editor, Guyu Guyu, whose insightful and in-depth writing will captivate you in this and future issues. In this edition, he explores the art of navigating unemployment amid the current economic downturn. Visit https://oralseastafrica.news/ for more

04/06/2025

When Ngugi wa Thiongo almost talked -Gazemba to write the Stone Hills of Maragoli in Lulogooli
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04/06/2025

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26/05/2025

Soklo is the remotest part of Mfangano Island in Mbita, perched at the very top of the towering rock formations that make life possible within Africa’s largest freshwater lake, Lake Victoria—known locally as Lake Inyanza. While Mfangano is a picturesque tourist destination, offering safari camping, beach holidays, bird watching, and walking trails, it is also one of the most dangerous places in Kenya to give birth.

Out of 37 documented referrals, the CBO offered emergency referral services to 15 obstetrics cases and 6 medical cases from facilities in the Sub County in the year 2023. All the obstetric cases were successfully handed over alive in Mbita Sub County Hospital and Homabay Teaching and Referral Hospit...

20/05/2025

Africa has lost the safety net of the community that provided support and ancient knowledge to guide you through pregnancy and motherhood. Today, young mothers and fathers find themselves in an apartment alone, overwhelmed, despite all the information you can get from experts and technology online.

🎙️ In this episode of Dear Mama, we sit down with Rosemary Shikari, the woman giving Kisumu mothers round the clock support service called a doula.

The Kisumu doula says her own experience taught her you need someone to walk with you through the process, guiding you and supporting you all the way from conception into the first critical months.

📸🎥 by Seamless Frames, this powerful episode airs on Orals East Africa YouTube Channel.
https://youtu.be/ifivd38MkRo?si=5ODDEOV0LLbMCBq-

14/05/2025

The cement and steel tariffs that had Guru singing Kanu’s a hundred years

A few months to the tabling of the Finance Bill 2023, representatives of five leading cement manufacturers invited one of our reporters for an urgent meeting in a high-end hotel in Nairobi. It was cold, but one you could detect a streak of sweat on some of their faces.
“We don’t know what he (Narendra) is planning, but he is up to no good,” said one of them
https://oralseastafrica.news/the-cement-and-steel-tarrifs-that-had-guru-singing-kanus-a-hundred-years/

13/05/2025

The Gupta-like capture of Kenya’s steel and cement sector, that has everyone speaking Guru

How billionaire Narendra Raval has cut major deals in Kenya and Uganda by influencing changes in fiscal policies to lock out competition in cement and steel
https://oralseastafrica.news/the-gupta-like-capture-of-kenyas-steel-and-cement-sector-that-has-everyone-speaking-guru/