Author: David Indeje

Too Early For Birds is bringing “Shawry for Trees: The Roots of a Revolutionary” back to the stage, five months after the show’s sold out debut left audiences asking for another round. The rerun lands at Nairobi’s Jain Bhavan auditorium from September 25 to 27, dates that fall on the fifteenth anniversary of Wangari Maathai’s death in 2011. The production team calls the timing a coincidence they noticed only after locking the schedule, though they admit it feels like more than luck. A ninth edition built on a viral moment Shawry for Trees began, unlikely as it sounds, with a…

Helping someone you love feels natural. It feels right. The problem arrives quietly, across weeks and months, when helping becomes the primary currency of the relationship and you cannot quite remember when that shift happened. Most people in this position do not recognise it immediately. They frame it as care. They tell themselves the other person is going through a difficult season. They extend patience because love asks for patience. All of that is reasonable, until the pattern makes it unreasonable. What Genuine Support Looks Like Real support in a relationship flows naturally from care. It is not calculated, but…

Safaricom is lowering the cost of doing business on M PESA. Starting this August, the telecom giant is cutting charges across three merchant products: Pochi La Biashara, Lipa na M PESA Buy Goods and Business Till transfers. The changes sit inside a larger campaign called PATA MORE, which also boosts data bundles and expands digital services, all without raising prices. What is changing for merchants Pochi La Biashara customers get the biggest immediate relief. From 1 August through 31 October, payments to Pochi merchant tills are free up to KES 200, up from a previous ceiling that charged customers well…

ALP REIT reported total assets of USD 45.18 million for the six months to June 30, 2026, its first financial results since listing on the Nairobi Securities Exchange in March. The trust is Kenya’s first US dollar denominated Income Real Estate Investment Trust. Financial Summary Metric Value Total assets USD 45.18 million Property assets USD 26.53 million Cash on hand USD 14.74 million Net profit USD 0.23 million Adjusted Funds From Operations (AFFO) USD 0.46 million Seed portfolio occupancy 98% Rental income recognised 2 months Interim distribution None declared Balance sheet debt None Property assets comprised USD 26.53 million in…

A boda boda rider crashes and cannot work for three weeks. A market trader’s stock burns in a stall fire. A smallholder farmer loses a herd to disease. None of them had insurance, not because they did not want it, but because every policy they looked at was built for someone with a payslip. CIC Insurance Group is betting that changes now. The company has launched CIC Impact, a subsidiary built for people whose income does not arrive as a fixed salary on the 25th of every month, and whose annual premiums start below Ksh 3,000. Why Most Insurance Was…

Absa Bank Kenya has channelled more than KES 204 billion into sustainable finance since 2022, a figure that puts real weight behind its promise to grow inclusion, enterprise, and environmental resilience across the country. The bank released the numbers in its 2025 Sustainability and Climate Report, unveiled this week at Strathmore University. Behind it sits a bank that beat its own target three times over, retrofitted its branches, tightened its emissions accounting, and pushed tens of thousands of young Kenyans toward employment. Here is what stands out. The Numbers at a Glance Metric 2025 Result Context Sustainable finance disbursed KES…