Circular Economy Communities Already Have the Ideas. They Just Need the Right Partners. Inside Kisauni, more than 30 grassroots organisations are building a circular economy from waste, water and fish — one partnership at a time. By Ronny Choge At the coast, the biggest ideas rarely come from boardrooms. They come from the ground — from people who live with a problem long enough to understand exactly how to solve it. That was the lesson our directors carried home last weekend after attending […]
What's Happnin Kenya’s Political Recycling Problem: Why the Same Faces Can’t Deliver a Different Future By Ronny Choge Kenya's political dysfunction isn't the product of any single bad leader. It's structural. The same small circle of political figures has dominated the national stage for decades, and that continuity — not any one administration — is what keeps producing the same toxic patterns election after election. Look at the current field of heavyweights: William Ruto, Kalonzo Musyoka, Musalia Mudavadi, Martha Karua, Rigathi Gachagua, Charity Ngilu, along […]
Circular Economy A Vision for a Stronger Coast: Icon Radio Kenya’s Partnership with the Coast Development Authority By Ronny Choge Building Pathways from Community Needs to Opportunity As part of Icon Radio Kenya's engagement with Coast development initiatives, facilitated by the Coast Development Authority (CDA) under Chairman Mzee Mwinyi Mzee, our team recently visited the Kisauni Vocational Training Centre — an institution with a 58-year history of community-led achievement and resilience. The visit offered a close look at the realities facing many communities and Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) […]
insert_link Entertainment The XYZ Show Changed Kenya. It Was Never Built to Make Money. By Ronny Choge Do you remember the XYZ Show? The one that premiered on Kenyan TV screens and served us political satire in concentrated humor, week after week? For those who lived through it, the latex puppets and their razor-sharp send-ups of the political class weren't just entertainment — they were a cultural fixture, arriving well ahead of their time. So when the show quietly went out of production, it […] todayJuly 22, 2026 12
insert_link Opinion Crowds Don’t Vote: The Numbers Behind Sifuna’s Presidential Risk todayJuly 20, 2026 30
insert_link Politics Ol Kalou Has Spoken: What a By-Election in Nyandarua Just Told Kenya About 2027 todayJuly 20, 2026 32
insert_link Governance LSK Opposes Calls to Delay Ol Kalou By-Election, Wants Electoral Offenders Prosecuted By Brighton Okoth The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) has urged the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to proceed with the Ol Kalou parliamentary by-election, saying allegations of voter bribery, violence and other electoral offences should be addressed through the law rather than by postponing the poll. In a statement released on Monday, the society argued that cancelling or delaying the election would unfairly deny constituents their constitutional right […] todayJuly 14, 2026 23
insert_link Africa Finance Dangote’s Lamu Gamble: Why Africa’s Richest Man Chose Kenya Over Tanzania — And Why That Might Not Be Enough The 650,000-barrel-per-day Dangote Petroleum Refinery in Lagos, Nigeria, is the world's single-train facility. The Nigerian mogul has confirmed that Africa's second largest refinery will be built in Lamu,Kenya with groundwork expected to kick off before the year 2026 ends. By July 2026, the story of Aliko Dangote's next mega-project had stopped being a rumour and started being a construction site. On Lamu Island, soil testing crews and environmental assessors are […] todayJuly 8, 2026 31
insert_link Governance Kenya’s Biggest Budget Yet: CS John Mbadi Unveils Ksh 4.84 Trillion Spending Plan for 2026/2027 todayJune 12, 2026 44
insert_link 4 1 Politics Kenya’s Historic Impeachment: What the Court’s Ruling on Riggy G Really Means todayJune 9, 2026 42 1 4
insert_link Education When Schools Burn and Silence Grows Loud: Kenya’s Recurring Student Unrest and the Search for Lasting Solutions todayJune 6, 2026 94
insert_link Kenya Events PayPal Account Restrictions Spark Concern Among Kenyan Freelancers . todayJune 5, 2026 16
