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12 published articles

• Commentary · 2026-09-29

  Real Business Is in Policy (Part IX): Who Controls the Payment Gate?

  Will Kenya’s draft payment rules make it easier and safer for ordinary people to earn, receive and use their money, or tighten the gate without improving the road?

• Commentary · 2026-09-25

  Real Business Is in Policy (Part VII): The Tender Begins Before the Tender

  How tax concessions, financing and equipment-use rules can affect contractor competition, and what evidence is needed to assess public value.

• Commentary · 2026-09-23

  Real Business Is in Policy (Part VI): Finance the Learning. Prove the Capability.

  Financing opens the school gate. Capability is proved when skill, experience, credentials and a first chance can be shown, not when money alone has been counted.

• Commentary · 2026-09-23

  Real Business Is in Policy (Part V): Who Owns the Gate to Opportunity?

  Placement and funding begin the journey. Learning, assessment, credentials and access to work depend on further decisions. Who makes those gates fair?

• Commentary · 2026-09-23

  Real Business Is in Policy (Part IV): The School Gate and the Debt Ledger

  Kenya’s education funding reform asks who gains access today, who repays tomorrow, and who carries the risk when education does not immediately become income.

• Commentary · 2026-09-07

  Real Business Is in Policy (Part III): Coffee, Cash Crops and the Chief

  Part III: Kenya’s coffee economy shows that markets are not merely discovered, they are designed through land, labour, licences, chiefs and power.

• Commentary / Case Simulation · 2026-09-04

  The Kenya Sugar Belt: Leasing, Capability and the Ledger Nobody Can See

  Four state sugar mills were leased, not sold, in May 2025. Farmer payments and milling have improved at some sites; disclosure, worker arrears and creditor claims remain unresolved. This fact-checked case asks whether leasing has produced capability, or only a change of gatekeeper.

• Commentary / Case Simulation · 2026-09-04

  Pan Paper Mills, Webuye: Industrial Revival or Industrial Capability?

  Pan Paper Mills collapsed in 2009 and failed a state-backed revival in 2010. Since 2016, Rai Group has rebuilt it around recycled fibre. This fact-checked commentary and governance simulation asks what would actually prove capability rather than repeat an announcement.

• Commentary / Case Simulation · 2026-09-04

  The Magadi Test: When Sovereignty Must Become Capability

  Kenya is right to demand more value from Lake Magadi. The real test is whether it can enforce accountability and build downstream industry without replacing one opaque arrangement with another.

• Commentary · 2026-08-24

  For Every Answer, There Is a Question

  Best Practice remembers what worked. The Use Journey reveals what is happening. Relevance evidence turns better questions into Next Practice.

• Commentary · 2026-08-01

  Real Business Is in Policy (Part II): What Kenya’s Post-Vision 2030 Blueprint Could Mean for Enterprise

  Part II: Eric Omanga examines President William Ruto’s proposed post-Vision 2030 economic blueprint and asks how national policy can become real markets, enterprises, jobs and public value.

• Commentary · 2026-07-31

  Real Business Is in Policy (Part I)

  The biggest business opportunities often emerge before customers begin buying, when policy defines the rules, redirects money and exposes the solutions society still lacks.