Two distant Counties have emerged as having Kenya’s highest life expectancy with the women living on average 22 years longer than those in the worst performing county in the country. At Birth, the life expectancy for females in both Garissa
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Road Accidents Claim 10 Kenyan Lives Everyday
This week’s post is from Pauline Ndirangu, an Open Data Fellow 2016 who is part of our Data Science Team where she surfaces stories from different data sets. “I find purpose by extracting tales from data. My main tools for
Read moreHe who plants trees loves others beside himself
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they shall never sit in. This quote is written in Gnomolgia (1732), a compilation of 6496 adagies and proverbs that Thomas Fuller an English physician had collected from various
Read moreSorry Nanyuki, I am going to Marsabit
I am looking for land in Marsabit County somewhere i can cool down, graze my goats in the day and stare at the stars in the evening. Someplace I can feel the purpose of life and living and the endless
Read moreTime: What does it mean?
Time is Infinite. Time transcends human understanding and yet very few people pause to think what it means. Time management has always been sold as one of the key skills for success and there are several books available to help
Read moreTrees for the Earth.
Peter Diamandis is the name that comes to my mind when I think of Earth Day which will be marked on Friday, 22nd April 2016. He is the CEO and Chairman of the X Prize Foundation which was founded in
Read moreThe generational gap: the leader and the led age gap.
A few weeks ago, I was irked when someone retweeted an old blog post that suggested that the difference between the age of the Kenyan Leader and the median age was 60. This was based on a brilliant 2012 article
Read moreMarriage Pay-gap: Do men marry women with larger paychecks?
Today I had an argument with a colleague. We argued about the chances that iI would marry a woman who makes more money than I do. In as much as I did admit that I would be okay with such
Read moreDrinking Water: Treat it then Drink it.
Water Wikipedia entry on water states that it covers 71 per cent of the earth’s surface and that 96.5 per cent of the planet’s crust water is found in seas and oceans, 1.7 per cent in groundwater, 1.7 per cent
Read moreOn the road home, church, school, work
Did you know that on average you spend 30 – 50 per cent of the day on the move? Walking, Riding a bicycle, in car(stuck in traffic). You are always headed somewhere, be it school, work, meeting, shopping center or
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