Author: Lynet Awino

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…

Nigeria and Kenya are producing some of the most streamed music on the planet. Yet nearly $286 million in recorded music revenue from those two countries alone never reaches the people who made it, according to research from the Music Economy Development Initiative (MEDI), a partnership between the Center for Music Ecosystems and Global Citizen. That figure lands at an awkward moment. In 2025, Sub Saharan Africa’s recorded music revenues climbed 15.2 percent to reach $120 million, according to IFPI’s Global Music Report 2026, with South Africa alone accounting for 78.1 per cent of total revenues after recording a 12.9…

A new Kenyan music romance drama is heading to the big screen this August, and it brings with it an original soundtrack built from scratch for the film. Tides, written and directed by Reuben Odanga (Mo-Faya, Nafsi), premieres at Century Cinemax on 8 August, with further screenings to follow across Century Cinemax locations in Nairobi. Tickets for the premiere are already on sale here. What the film is about Set on the Kenyan coast, Tides follows Salma and Biko, a musician couple whose livelihood is drying up just as their daughter’s serious medical condition drains their finances. As survival grows…