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Over the last decade, the online gig economy has grown in Kenya, transforming how Kenyans access work and is gradually transitioning young Kenyans towards more accessible, competitive and consistent job opportunities. With the overall unemployment rates standing at 26.4 percent, and the Kenyan economy’s inability to provide employment opportunities, the gig economy is increasingly providing alternative economic opportunities.
The world is experiencing an acute period of change and contestation. A backlash against the perceived uneven benefits of globalization has fundamentally reshaped national politics across the world, from the UK’s vote to leave the European Union to the election of President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil. Major global challenges such as climate change, intercontinental migration, demographic shifts and the transformation of work by new technologies require global responses. However, these are increasingly obstructed by the reassertion of domestic political priorities and a subsequent weakening of multilateral cooperation.
“Our government has put in place measures, seeking to diversify our economy by developing agriculture, emphasizing manufacturing and addressing the energy and infrastructure deficit. With this we shall be placing Nigeria on the path of rapid growth and sustainable development,” Buhari said, before inviting Japanese investors to invest in power and renewable energy, petrochemicals and gas, maritime shipping, ports, agribusiness and healthcare, some priority sectors identified by his administration.
Gaborone, Botswana, 26th August 2019 – Experts in digital transformation, gender and education, attending the Second Innovation Education Expo, urged the continent to adopt inclusive digital policies for out-of-school girls in Africa during a side event convened by the African Union International Centre for Girls’ and Women’s Education in Africa (AU/CIEFFA) in Gaborone, Botswana on 21st August 2019.
Ghetto Classics is the flagship programme from the Art of Music Foundation. Established in 2008, it is a community music programme where we use music education to provide the youth with opportunities to better themselves and their community. We do this by instilling in them the life skills that come with the discipline of studying the Art of Music. Our programme also provides them with income generating opportunities.
Mathare North Area residents for the first time on Wednesday, 22nd April 2015, tasted a bite of Sauti Ya Mtaa graffiti on a section of the expansive Drive Inn Primary school wall. Graffiti in the area has been elusive for a long time. Aides of the area MCA, Oscar Lore, had earlier been approached to help securing the social hall wall but their leader, Owish, adamantly refused and subsequently avoided responding to any further requests and discussion on the matter. They said the wall was built by the MCA and therefore he had to authorize for any form of graffiti on it. Truth is however, the wall was built using tax money collected from the locals and it was just a matter of time before it could be built. When contacted, the Ward Administrator said there was no problem regarding the proposed art work and that he was not opposed to it.
