There is something quietly surprising about discovering one of Kenya’s most consequential technology upgrades not through a press release, a push notification, or a breathless WhatsApp forward from a well-connected contact, but through the decidedly mundane act of reaching for your phone to pay a restaurant bill. That is precisely

Last week, the Communications Authority of Kenya published its latest Q2 Sector Statistics Report, covering the October to December 2025 quarter — the most recent data available on the state of the sector. That release presented a timely opportunity: to step back and compare three consecutive years of the same quarter’s data — October

I have been building things digitally for most of my adult life. It started with a Sinclair ZX Spectrum that my father bought as a single Christmas gift for the whole family back in 1984 or 1985 — one home computer instead of individual gifts, which felt incredibly baffling at the time