My colleagues and I have lately got considerably immersed in matters around fostering of children, thanks to memoranda of understanding (MOUs) signed between our employer and St Martin CSA – a major NGO that– together with affiliate organisations – has sought to improve lives of vulnerable and marginalised people in Samburu, Laikipia, Baringo and Nyandarua counties since 1997. Previously, foster care was a distant and merely scholarly concept in our ‘ivory towers’ of academe. So sad that we’re coming to understand the inner workings of ‘the world of living for others’ just as the Kenyan government moves to close over…
Author: By John Wahome
Moon as seen during the Super Blue Blood Moon on January 31st 2018,the rare event occurs every 150years combining three Lunar events:Supermoon,total lunar eclipse and a blue moon. [Wilberforce Okwiri/ Standard] At the time of writing this article, the moon, Earth’s primary celestial satellite, has no owners. Some Bantu dialects call such entities ‘witemere’ – idle land, which is yours for the taking if you can land there first. But the status quo may not last. Donald Trump’s fickle temperament and toxic belligerence could torpedo the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 (the standard operating procedures for any parties undertaking space…
Candidates sit mathematics paper during KCPE examination. [File, Standard] At the onset of biblical history when God told Abraham to enumerate the stars of heaven, the aged patriarch (as the popular Christian children cartoon series Superbook portrays him) must have seized the abacus, the best computing tech of the time, to help him number his divinely promised descendants accurately. Today, over 4,000 years later, that momentous mathematical ‘equation’ is still unsolved, despite the deployment of sophisticated space telescopes and supercomputers. Observers at the Hubble Space Telescope have so far mapped 2 trillion galaxies, each with an average of about 100…