By Anthony Muchoki | January 2026 I stood in Nyahururu market last month watching a potato trader move what must have been 400,000 Kenyan shillings in worn notes from one…
The Auction Hammer: How Africa's Banks Are Assassinating Agriculture While Calling It Recovery By Anthony Muchoki | January 2026 I. The Abominations We Tolerate There is a peculiar cruelty that…
By Anthony Muchoki | December 2025 I. The Theatre of Abundance There is a peculiar theatre playing out across the savannahs and highlands of East Africa—a tragicomedy in which the…
By Anthony Muchoki In the next 25 to 50 years, artificial intelligence could become the planet's biggest polluter—an irony too bitter to ignore. While we celebrate AI as the tool…
By Anthony Muchoki Across the continent, leaders speak about economic transformation, digital ambition, youth empowerment, and industrialization. Yet one truth sits quietly at the centre of Africa's development challenge: Africa…
By Anthony Muchoki Across the continent, ordinary Africans are facing economic pressures that feel heavier than at any other time in recent memory. The pessimism is not irrational—it is mathematical.…
By Anthony Muchoki The hospital has no medicine, but you can see the mansion from its cracked windows. In Kinshasa, in Lagos, in Nairobi, the geography of plunder is written…
By Anthony Muchoki The dust rose like a prayer that wouldn't reach heaven. I stood with Mama Esther at the edge of her freshly tilled maize field in Kilifi, watching…