Author: Lynet Awino

Kenya’s draft 2025 Code of Corporate Governance spells out, seat by seat, how a listed company board must be built. The rules cover who counts as independent, how many seats one person can hold, and how long a board seat can last before rotation kicks in. The Independence Test The Code defines an Independent Non Executive Director through a list of conditions. That person must not have worked for the company in an executive role within the last three years. They must carry no material or financial relationship with the company. Pay comes only through sitting fees or allowances, not…

Spotify has opened its Greasy Tunes Café Kitchen in Nairobi, teaming up with local events platform The BAG to launch a twelve day pop up that puts food, music and the city’s creative communities on the same table. The Nairobi run marks the third stop for Greasy Tunes, following earlier editions in Johannesburg in 2023 and Lagos in 2025. Each city gets its own flavor. In Nairobi, that means a program built around street food culture, local music scenes and the community energy that already drives how young people gather here. From Braamfontein To Lagos To Nairobi Greasy Tunes started…

Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority published a draft in November 2025 to replace the Code of Corporate Governance Practices for Issuers of Securities to the Public, 2015. Ten years passed. Markets moved. So did expectations around climate, ethics, and disclosure. The new draft answers that shift. The Old Ethics Chapter Disappears The 2015 Code carried a standalone chapter on Ethics and Social Responsibility. The 2025 draft removes it. That does not mean ethics drops off the agenda. Instead, the drafters spread ethics duties across the document: into board responsibilities, internal controls, and disclosure rules. A company can no longer treat ethics…

Kenyan rapper, singer and producer Nyathigi Gatere, better known as tg.blk, has been named Spotify’s EQUAL Africa artist for July. The Mombasa born musician has spent the past few years carving out a name in Kenya’s alternative hip hop scene, blending raw emotion with total creative independence. From Bedroom Beats to a Continental Stage Gatere started making music alone, teaching herself to rap and produce using GarageBand. She sharpened those skills further while studying in the United States, then carried them home to Kenya, where she has grown into one of the country’s most distinctive alternative voices. Her 2021 single…

Mabani Aljazeera Holding Group, a leading Saudi construction and investment firm, has bought into one of East Africa’s largest mixed use developments. Through its subsidiary Swan Properties, the company acquired a fifty percent minus one share stake in Jabali Towers at Tatu City Special Economic Zone. Rendeavour, the zone’s owner and developer, keeps majority control. The deal marks a significant moment for foreign investment in Kenya. It signals confidence from a major Gulf investor and reinforces Tatu City’s position as a magnet for capital flowing into the country. Government Welcomes the Investment Cabinet Secretary for Investment, Trade, and Industry Hon.…

Kenya Airways is dusting off a giant it once sent away. The airline will return its Boeing 777-300ER to scheduled commercial service on the Nairobi to London Heathrow route starting 17 July 2026, ending a decade in which the 400 seat jet flew for other carriers instead of its own. A Decade Away and Why It Ended The story of this aircraft did not begin with triumph. Kenya Airways took delivery of its first Boeing 777-300ER in October 2013, building a fleet of three to support long haul growth under its original Project Mawingu plan. Financial strain forced a rethink…