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President Uhuru Kenyatta recently declared his intention to increase Kenya’s budgetary allocation on education to 30 percent. Although this shows the commitment of the government towards improving the quality of education in the country, the number of Kenyan’s out-of-school children …
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Images and video of Kenyan police officers brutalising a student during a recent protest at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology circulated widely on social media and resulted in a public outcry. The officers involved were promptly interdicted and …
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Sub-Saharan Africa has one of the highest rates of domestic violence in the world. In Kenya, more than 47 percent of women are victims of physical and sexual abuse. This rate is higher than the world average; 25 percent of …
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Kenyan women have often found themselves in a conflict of interest between work and family. The lack of adequate work and family support puts a strain on their income while some of them heavily rely on relatives or other …
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Women are rarely represented adequately at peace negotiations yet they make up half the population of any country in conflict or at war. This remains the case despite increasing global policy awareness on how women are affected by conflict and …
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The Kenyan Ministry of Transport is proposing a review of fares for Public Service Vehicles, also known as Matatu, in a move to reduce the cost of transportation for poor citizens. Despite the good intentions of this proposal, state regulation …
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The two-thirds gender rule currently dominating the headlines in Kenya is another unfortunate proof of the many disadvantages Kenyan women have to deal with. The parliament is struggling to pass a bill that will promote more equal gender representation.
Currently, …
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Teen pregnancies are a pervasive phenomenon in Kenya. Based on the most recent national figures, one in five girls in Kenya between 15 and 19 years has begun childbearing, and half of these pregnancies are unwanted.
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The rate of domestic violence in sub-Saharan Africa is among the highest in the world. Over 47 percent of women in Kenya have experienced physical or sexual violence. This is higher than pooled estimates from 81 countries which show that …
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The absence of technically organized ideologies in traditional African societies made several historians resolve that pre-colonial Africa had no clear patterns that governed behavior except the unearthing of some ancestral practices. Historians like George Dalton identified the inability of Western …
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