Journalist.
Non-Profit Communications.
Formerly, @DawanAfrica, @KTNNewsKE, @K24tv.
@NxtGenFellows Contributor.
Son of the most High. #ByGraceThroughFaith
⛔️History: On October 6, 1981, during a military parade in Cairo commemorating the 1973 the War, Sadat was killed by members of the Egyptian extremists-The lead assassin, shouted “I have killed Pharaoh” while attacking with grenades and gunfire‼️
I really enjoy meeting folks who love knowledge for its own sake; to whom education is not merely a means to an end. You can almost taste the passion in their voices, the conviction in their pursuits and defenses. It's a true yearning for excellence you can't manufacture.
My hope is that this book will contribute to more honest conversations around mental health, particularly in African families and communities where many continue to suffer in silence.
To pre-order: https://t.co/Zjyrc5A3wd
Listen, if you are applying for competitive PhD funding, make sure you do the following. Please bookmark this:
1. Your topic should be multidisciplinary and contemporary, for example, combining areas such as gender, AI, climate change, sustainability, wellbeing, and so on.
2. Get a supervisor and agree on the project before you apply. If a supervisor in the department agrees to your topic, it increases your chances of of success by over 40%.
3. Think beyond traditional methodologies such as interviews and cross-sectional surveys. Consider fresher approaches like diary entries, computational methods such as Structural Topic Modelling, observations, and so on.
4. Focus heavily on theoretical contributions. Top professors do not want replication. Simply saying that a study has been done in Singapore but not in Kenya is not enough. Geography is NOT novelty.
5. If possible, design a series of studies within one project, for example, Study 1, Study 2, and Study 3. Start with exploratory study, confirmatory study, to explanatory study.
6. Your personal statement and reference letters must not be generic. Forget statements like, “Dennis is hardworking, diligent, and dedicated.” Think along these lines: “While working on a project studying the implications of informal relationships within the workplace, Dennis used an innovative methodology, Structural Topic Modelling, to analyse a large set of social media data. This helped us to…”
7. Get a mentor and keep applying.
On Saturday we had the most beautiful day celebrating the marriage of our son Hector to Georgia.
The groomsmen met at our farm and travelled by tractor and trailer.
Kenyan writer Gladwell Pamba has been shortlisted for the 2026 Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story The Last Shop, published by Jahazi Press in August 2024.
“I supposed I was a good writer, but I never imagined I would land on Caine’s radar. I feel validated to keep trusting my voice and to keep telling my truths through fiction,” Pamba told The Caine Prize.
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