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In recent years, there has been a push by civil society and tech groups to include access to the Internet as a universal human right. But with millions across the world still struggling with basic amenities, can it ever really hold up? TEA Graphic

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Is the Internet basic to life in today’s world?

Posted 4 days ago

In the land of broadband connections, the Wi-Fi man is king. Or so the saying goes. ...

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Mao Zedong: He is without argument the one Chinese on whose shoulders whatever economic take-off China would experience after his death can be said to have been launched. Inset: Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-First Century by Orville Schell & John Delury. FILE

How China got the dragon to spit fire, again

Posted 5 days ago

Many questions are asked by different people as to what is behind the achievements that China has made on its road to becoming...

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A marabou stork walks around Hawassa. Photo/Gragory Nyauchi

From Nairobi to Addis and back... finally

Posted 5 days ago

On April 25, 2006 we endured a five-hour bus trip back to where it was January 1, 2014....

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Rotejo by Denis Muraguri. Photo/Frank Whalley

Raucous jumble of joyous thuggery

Posted 5 days ago

I must be growing old, for I find myself in broad agreement with the judges of a major art competition....

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Driving along the Mutarakwa-Limuru road is an arduous task. A narrow strip of tarmac is all that is left for a road. I see several bars, where in my day I used to nurse a cold one or two. Illustration/John Nyagah

The return

Posted 5 days ago

Rays of sunlight stream through a gap between the window curtains. They divide the room almost in half. I squint past the rays...

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Will Kenya win the bid for an IRB Sevens leg?

Posted 5 days ago

This year’s Safaricom Safari Sevens tournament, to be held on September 19 to 21 at Safaricom Stadium, Kasarani, will be of...

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China’s auto industry stalls, no exports yet

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For more than a decade, Chinese automakers have been talking about starting large-scale exports to North America and Europe,...

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