The Kenyan Premier League 2019/2020 season kicked off a few weeks ago despite major betting companies in the country losing their operating licenses courtesy of legal action by the Kenyan government. Sportpesa, who held the lion’s share of the market, the Premiership sponsor just so happened to undergo close scrutiny by the Kenya Revenue Authority […]
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Unfinished projects and everything in between
A week ago, perusing through a newspaper, a small picture caught my eye. Showing an athletics coach marking a ground for the training of athletes. I would have let it pass but the caption was longer than that. Its a ground within a school, yes, a school and athletes have taken it upon themselves to […]
Professionalism in sports for Kenya
Just this past year, we as country, an athletics powerhouse, launched a new laboratory to try and curb the menace that had dogged us for years. Doping. It does not look to serve only us, but the rest of the region as well. Quite a moment to be happy, a moment to be glad that […]
Light at the end of the tunnel
We are at a time in our country’s politics where youth empowerment is a topic that dominates political propaganda but when it comes to implementation, well, look no further than the President’s recent apppointment to head the Sports, Arts and Social Development fund: 91-year-old Moody Awori. NINETY-ONE-YEAR-OLD. The man is literally older than the sovereignity […]