Author: Lynet Awino

Nairobi does not really separate music from daily life. It plays through lunch breaks, studio sessions, Sunday plans, football nights, and gospel gatherings, threading through nearly every social moment in the city. Spotify’s Greasy Tunes Nairobi, running from 15 to 26 July at Heltz House, took that everyday relationship with sound and gave it a physical home, turning two weeks of programming into one of the clearest snapshots yet of how young Kenyans actually experience music. The platform’s own listening data shows Nairobi has become the most Gen Z driven streaming city on the continent, and Greasy Tunes was built…

Kenya’s shisha lounges got their clearest legal win yet this week. The High Court has struck down the country’s shisha ban as unconstitutional, ruling that the regulations behind it expired years ago and that the government has no lawful basis to keep enforcing them. For bar and restaurant owners who have absorbed nearly a decade of sporadic crackdowns, the ruling offers something rare: a definitive answer from the bench. Justice Bahati Mwamuye delivered the judgment on Tuesday, finding that the Public Health (Control of Shisha Smoking) Rules of 2017 lapsed after the Ministry of Health missed a court ordered deadline…

Most Kenyans still treat insurance as an afterthought, something to buy only when a lender demands it or a crisis makes it unavoidable. Sidian Bank wants to change that habit by putting insurance where people already do their banking. Through its bancassurance offering, the bank now sells life, health, motor and general insurance products alongside its loans and accounts, betting that convenience will do what advertising alone cannot. Why This Matters For Your Wallet Kenya’s insurance penetration rate sits at roughly 2.2 percent of GDP, well below the global average of 7.4 percent, according to the Insurance Regulatory Authority and…

Kenya’s draft 2025 Code of Corporate Governance spells out, seat by seat, how a listed company board must be built. The rules cover who counts as independent, how many seats one person can hold, and how long a board seat can last before rotation kicks in. The Independence Test The Code defines an Independent Non Executive Director through a list of conditions. That person must not have worked for the company in an executive role within the last three years. They must carry no material or financial relationship with the company. Pay comes only through sitting fees or allowances, not…

Spotify has opened its Greasy Tunes Café Kitchen in Nairobi, teaming up with local events platform The BAG to launch a twelve day pop up that puts food, music and the city’s creative communities on the same table. The Nairobi run marks the third stop for Greasy Tunes, following earlier editions in Johannesburg in 2023 and Lagos in 2025. Each city gets its own flavor. In Nairobi, that means a program built around street food culture, local music scenes and the community energy that already drives how young people gather here. From Braamfontein To Lagos To Nairobi Greasy Tunes started…

Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority published a draft in November 2025 to replace the Code of Corporate Governance Practices for Issuers of Securities to the Public, 2015. Ten years passed. Markets moved. So did expectations around climate, ethics, and disclosure. The new draft answers that shift. The Old Ethics Chapter Disappears The 2015 Code carried a standalone chapter on Ethics and Social Responsibility. The 2025 draft removes it. That does not mean ethics drops off the agenda. Instead, the drafters spread ethics duties across the document: into board responsibilities, internal controls, and disclosure rules. A company can no longer treat ethics…