Concert Culture is back!

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The lights are back on, and so is the noise.

After years of pandemic and post-pandemic silence, Kenya’s live music scene has roared into a new era; one where festivals like Koroga, Sol Fest, and Blankets & Wine once again pull thousands into open fields and city venues.

But this revival feels different: the crowd now arrives with smartphones, streaming links, and hashtags, turning concerts into both physical and digital carnivals. PwC’s latest outlook counts Kenya among Africa’s fastest-recovering live music markets, with revenues surpassing pre-Covid levels and still climbing.

Promoters are leaning into hybrid models, where a show is as much an online event as a live one, and artists are learning to perform for both stage and screen.

As Fred Obura explains, concert culture isn’t just back; it’s evolving into a spectacle built equally for the moment and the memory.

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Why the NSE temporarily froze KenGen Shares 

By Harry Njuguna

Trading in KenGen shares stopped cold on Thursday after a draft version of the power company’s financial results leaked online, sending investors into a brief panic. The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) halted trading in consultation with the Capital Markets Authority (CMA), calling it a precaution to protect market integrity. The figures circulating on social media claimed a massive 54% profit jump and a record dividend. KenGen later clarified that the document was an unapproved draft still under audit, signed off by its company secretary hours after the suspension. With the official statement out, trading resumed, the episode left investors rattled about how easily a screenshot can move the market.

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The Paradox Facing African Women in Science & Tech 

By Brian Nzomo

Africa now produces the world’s highest share of female STEM graduates, but that academic triumph has not translated into real influence in the continent’s technology sector. A new McKinsey report shows that while nearly half of Africa’s STEM graduates are women, fewer than one in five hold executive tech roles and women-led start-ups receive barely 1% of total venture funding. Despite leading globally in educational parity, African women face steep barriers at every stage of their careers; from limited mentorship and biased hiring to scarce investment opportunities. The continent’s tech boardrooms remain overwhelmingly male, and only a handful of billion-dollar firms have women in top technology positions.

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The New Architecture Of Affordability

By Chelsy Maina

The country's housing crisis isn’t just a shortage of walls and roofs, but a failure of imagination. Superior Homes Kenya seems to understand this, treating construction not as an act of masonry but of social engineering. By marrying accessible financing with design that anticipates the realities of modern urban life, the developer has turned affordability into an ecosystem. Its projects feel less like estates and more like experiments in middle-class survival, where community, sustainability, and creditworthiness are all under one roof.

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Opinion

What Kenya Can Learn from India’s Success as a Medical Tourism Destination

By Muthuri Kinyamu

Every year, Kenya watches its wealth and faith slip quietly through airport terminals bound for Delhi and Hyderabad. Our citizens seek not just surgery, but efficiency, trust, and dignity that our health system has yet to institutionalize. India’s triumph lies not merely in its doctors but in its orchestration: the seamless fusion of modern science and ancient care into a marketable national identity. Kenya, with its beaches, conservancies, and skilled clinicians, possesses all the raw materials but none of the choreography.

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