Over the past few weeks, I have been thinking deeply about what makes a minority few accumulate most of the money in the world. In every society and globally over 55 per cent of the wealth tends to be in the hands of only 1 per cent. Based on many global surveys, the bottom 55 […]

I have seen many clips going around on social media on retirement planning of late, especially targeting men. There seems to be a belief that men suffer most on retirement. I have not done any independent survey to establish whether this is true or not. However, from a general observation from among our communities across

Today, I shall focus on something that many people take casually when it comes to money. In this country, so many people would do anything just to squeeze money from someone or outrightly to con them. Unfortunately, some of these things are disguised as social events that people need to fundraise. The amount of effort

As I indicated in last weeks article, I have been reading Rob Moore’s book on money. While there are many takeaways at a personal level, some ideas are thought-provoking. One of the bitter realities in the world we live in is that while we all aspire to make money and grow wealth, only a very

This past week I have been going through an interesting book by Rob Moore called Money. I have been amazed at the similarity of many of the ideas I have been sharing on this page and what he writes in this book.  This is the first time I have read this book, so there is

The Easter holidays are here with us again. This year, they coincide with the last weekend of the first quarter of the year. This is significant in several ways as I shall demonstrate in today’s article. For Christians, the Easter holiday is significant in the sense that it is the season that Christ paid the

Over the past several days, I have been reflecting on the demands for money placed on the average-earning Kenyan. It would appear like the average Kenyan was never created to enjoy the fruits of the sweat from his/her brow.  If my experience is a true representation of the reality among the majority of Kenyans, it

We are in that season of the year again when many of the SACCO members are about to witness the return on the labour of their savings. For many people, whether in formal or informal employment, SACCO savings is their only form of structured investment. Unfortunately, many folks use the dividends each year and the

One of the loneliest journeys that anyone walks in their adult life is on their finances. No matter what people may say or advise, the money choices are ultimately personal decisions. Each one of us will have to walk this journey alone no matter how close you think your loved ones or friends are close

This is officially the week of love. For love fanatics, it is the week when no cost is spared to indulge and spoil one’s object of love.  However, to those born in the village like me, the day means nothing much -just another day. Forgive my ‘ushamba’ but I only learned of the day of