With nearly two years still to go before the August 2027 general election, Kenyan President William Ruto has already begun crisscrossing the country, using development projects as cover to launch his re-election campaign. Yet the “United Opposition” that is supposed to counter him has fallen into an open, multi-front internal brawl. From rally grounds in Nairobi to church fundraising events in Nyeri County, opposition leaders shout unity while accusing one another of “political bullying,” “tribal arithmetic,” and “arrogance.” This infighting not only exposes fundamental disagreements over the opposition’s candidate-selection mechanism but also reveals a deeper structural predicament: under Kenya’s “winner-takes-all”…
Author: Editorial Team
Kenya’s artificial intelligence strategy should produce something that an employer can actually inspect: proof that a worker knows when a machine is wrong. Every new training certificate should be paired with evidence from a real task, including a correction the trainee made and a judgment call the software could not responsibly make alone. Kenya has ambitions to build a substantial AI economy. The Ministry of Information, Communications and the Digital Economy’s digital-skills program distinguishes basic, intermediate and advanced skills, and recognizes that workers must learn to critically evaluate technology. The ministry’s AI strategy and implementation materials also set out a…
What makes 2027 different from 2022, when deepfakes and manipulated videos were already deployed during the campaign period, is the cost curve.
