Safe roads for pedestrians are still a far cry in Kenya
A fair share of Kenyan roads, especially in the urban areas, were built during the colonial era; at a time when urban areas had few dwellers and even fewer motor vehicles. In recent years, the Kenyan government has taken up th...
Social Experiment Shows Us How Invisible The Homeless Have Become
Would you recognise your wife if you walked by her on the street? What about your sister or your brother? Or your grandmother? A group of people volunteered to disguise themselves as homeless. They then had their unsuspecting r...
Subsidiarity, or the Conflict between Scale and Community in the EU
A while ago, I read an article saying that we should reconsider the division of tasks in the EU. It was a good article. The author essentially proposed to apply the principle of subsidiarity, which says that each policy area sh...
Influential women in the tech industry
Women in the technology sector face a whole host of obstacles to success. Structural sexism is widely reported, with 52% of women saying they are paid less for the same job. Zero women executive boards appear to be the norm, a...
WATCH: Mama Illegal
Women leaving Moldova and crossing the border into Romania and then on into Western Europe to work illegally has become a mass phenomenon, leaving children without mothers, and husbands without wives. Bordering Romania and the...
Ready for Hilary? Shattering the glass ceiling… Again
Will Hilary Clinton make that final crack? The moment finally arrived – former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton officially announced her candidacy to run as President of the United States in 2016. After much speculati...
