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The Slow Revolt: Why Kenyans Are Quietly Abandoning Safaricom

For more than two decades, Safaricom has occupied a position most companies can only dream of. It is not merely Kenya's largest telecommunications company. It is a national institution. Its network reaches places government services often struggle to reach. Its M-Pesa platform—the world's first massively successful mobile phone-based money transfer service—transformed how money moves across the country. Its annual results command more attention than those of many listed companies combined. For millions of Kenyans, owning a Safaricom line has long been less of a choice and more of a necessity. Yet beneath the surface, something appears to be changing. The shift is subtle. There are no dramatic protests. No boycott campaigns. No angry crowds gathering outside Safaricom House. Instead, there is a quiet migration taking place. One by one, customer by customer, an increasing number of Kenyans are beginning to ask a question that would have sounded absurd a decade ago: "Do I rea...
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Tragedy Strikes Kenyan Athletics Again as Charles Kipsang Dies Shortly After Completing Cameroon Mountain Race

Tragedy has once again knocked on the door of Kenyan athletics. On Saturday 24 February 2024, distance runner Charles Kipsang suddenly collapsed and died at Molyko Stadium in Buea, capital of the Southwest Region, after crossing the finishing line during the Cameroon Mountain Race of Hope. The cause of Kipsang's death is unknown.

33-year-old Kipsang vanished from contention in the 39-kilometre race right on the verge of the finish line. The race was won by Cameroonian-born Elvis Nsabinla.

Addressing the media, Southwest Region governor Bernard Okalia Bilai confirmed Kipsang's demise, saying the Kenyan athlete was leading the race, but started falling back towards the end. "We cannot say exactly what happened. But he was good, he was fine after the race,” Bilai said. "He developed a malaise and stopped during the race for some time," he added. "He was asked to get into the ambulance, but he took some soda and continued the race." Kipsang was called to the dias to receive his award, at which point he collapsed, and was pronounced dead at at a local hospital.

In a bizarre twist of fate, Kipsang, who finished sixth in the 2020 edition of the race, died on the very day of the burial of the world-renowned Kelvin Kiptum, who perished barely three weeks erstwhile in a freak road accident alongside his coach. 

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