RELATED STORIES In totally Unrelated news, Freeform has abruptly pulled the plug on black-ish creator Kenya Barris‘ latest comedy offering. According to our sister site Deadline, Unrelated (fka Besties) — which centered on two estranged half sisters (played by Jordin Sparks and Gigi Zumbado) who are thrown into each other’s lives via an online genetics […]
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The Pride of Africa: Kenya Airways (787-8) in Business on the New Nonstop From New York to Nairobi
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The Techies Turning Kenya Into a Silicon Savannah
The country is home to a $ 1 billion tech scene. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b6cd1a777a9d822a46426a6/master/pass/coke_07.jpg
Loon’s Internet-Slinging Balloons Are Headed to Work Over Kenya
The former Google X project is now its own Alphabet company, and just signed its first commercial agreement with Telkom Kenya. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b4fd1e531fa181b2b214634/master/pass/Transpo-Loon-Africa-w.jpg
A village in Kenya is quietly disproving the biggest myth about basic income
Chris Weller/Business Insider A 12-year basic income experiment in Kenya is showing that people typically spend free cash on necessities. Contrary to prevailing myths, people don’t seem to work less or waste the money on vices like alcohol. More research will eventually reveal whether these initial findings are an anomaly or the typical experience of […]
Kenya could be the heart of moon colonization, says ‘The Martian’ author Andy Weir — here’s why
Shutterstock Andy Weir, author of “The Martian,” released a novel called “Artemis” on Tuesday. In the book, tourists get to the moon by launching in spaceships from Kenya. Weir thinks building a lunar spaceport in an African country isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds. Kenya could circumvent out-of-date US space regulations, launch rockets with less […]
Kenya just became the third country in the world to nullify a presidential election result
Baz Ratner/Reuters History was made on 1 September, 2017 in Kenya after the presidential elections was declared null and void. Kenya became the first country in Africa to nullify a presidential election after the country’s Supreme Court on Friday nullified the August 8 presidential elections which declared the incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta winner. The Supreme Court found out that […]
Kenya launches the world’s first mobile-only sovereign bond
Trading floor of the future MOBILE money is ubiquitous in Kenya. Someone tapping on their phone might be paying school fees, sending money home or donating to a church. Soon they might be trading bonds. On June 30th the Kenyan government was due to launch M-Akiba, the world’s first sovereign bond to be sold exclusively […]
‘Black-ish’ Creator Kenya Barris Joins Moshe Kasher for an Insightful Discussion of Cultural Appropriation
As a hip-hop-obsessed Jewish kid growing up in Oakland in the 1980s and ’90s, Moshe Kasher knows a little something about cultural appropriation, which was the topic of last night’s debut episode of his new Comedy Central talk show, Problematic with Moshe Kasher. Like A&E’s Black and White, on which hosts Sherrod Small and Christian Finnegan conducted awkward, necessary, […]