Author: David Indeje

Epson has expanded its Nairobi office by 50 percent, putting KES 19.4 million (roughly USD 150,000) behind a bet that East Africa will keep buying printers and projectors faster than most other regions the company serves. The move, announced September 1, folds Kenya into Epson’s Middle East, Turkey, Africa and Central & West Asia region, a bloc the company treats as a priority growth zone. It is not Epson’s first stake in the ground here. The Japanese firm opened its Nairobi base in 2020, five years after HP made the same move, part of a pattern where global technology brands…

Kenya’s headline inflation rate climbed to 6.6% in August, up from 6.5% in July, marking the fifth straight month that price growth has sat above the midpoint of the central bank’s target range. The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics released the figures on Monday, showing consumer prices rose 0.4% between July and August, compared with a 0.2% rise the month before. The reading still falls within the Central Bank of Kenya’s target band of 2.5% to 7.5%, but it sits well above the 5% midpoint policymakers aim for. That gap has now persisted since spring, and August’s numbers suggest the…

Kenya’s mainstream advertising market spent the first half of 2026 catching its breath. After a strong close to 2025, advertisers pulled back sharply between January and June, dropping total spend to KES 29.53 billion, according to the Reelanalytics Kenya Media Landscape Report H1 2026. This is  a 24% fall from the KES 38.7 billion recorded in H2 2025. Yet it still sits 7% above the KES 27.6 billion spent in H1 2025, a detail that separates this slowdown from a genuine collapse. “Total advertising expenditure reached KES 29.53 billion, down 24% from H2 2025, but still 7% above H1 2025,”…

Anyone can start a relationship well. We show up early for dates, reply to texts within minutes, and offer the best version of ourselves. Ending a relationship tests something deeper. How you leave someone says as much about you as how you arrived. Ghosting, picking fights to force a breakup, or fading out until the other person gets the message all cause damage that lingers long after the relationship ends. The person left behind starts to doubt their worth. They carry that doubt into whatever comes next. And you carry something too: the quiet weight of having chosen the easy…

Kenya’s shopping centres are finding new tenants in unlikely places. As shoppers pull back on discretionary spending, pharmacies, car dealerships and family entertainment venues are stepping in to fill the gap left by struggling department stores and fashion retailers. That is the picture painted by Knight Frank’s H1 2026 Kenya Market Update, which tracks a market under pressure from public demonstrations, rising prices and a weaker consumer wallet. Developers are responding by moving away from big regional malls and building smaller, neighbourhood focused centres instead. Petrol station complexes, redeveloped city centre buildings and community malls are now attracting a wider…

Kenya is building a digital record for its livestock. The Animal Identification and Traceability System, known as ANITRAC, will follow an animal from birth through vaccination, ownership changes, movement and eventual slaughter. The goal is to turn a largely informal meat trade into a system that regulators, buyers and processors can actually verify, and that can compete for higher paying export markets. What to know ANITRAC assigns every registered animal a unique digital identity, replacing paper records, memory and declarations made at the slaughterhouse door. Kenya produced 613,627 tonnes of meat worth about KSh397 billion in 2024, according to Agriculture…