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My campus story

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 SELF IDENTIFICATION                     (Photo credited by Rachael ) Just like any other teen or should I say kid! I grew up admiring to join university. I spent all my highschool working so smart so that I can be able to face the other 'beautiful' bridge of my academic as I used to be told how sweet and you don't have to work hard at campus but only to enjoy campus life as I grew up. My dream of joining university come to fullfilment back in 2020 on September when I enrolled at TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MOMBASA, to pursue my dream, career and my passion in Mass Communication.               (Photo credited by Rachael) Life in campus is amazing but never easy for starters, especially when you 'Naive' don't be schoked when I use that name I simply mean a girl from the village who is on her own in this big city of Mombasa , knowing No One or anything about and around the city, before I forget she ...

Youths as the backbone of the economy

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 YOUTHS AS THE BACKBONE OF THE ECONOMY Our country Kenya, has a relatively youthful population,who stand on the runway of economic take off if they find the correct formula to use their energy ,creativity and entrepreneurshipthat they have to offer. If the government invest directly or facilitates investmentin attaing , food security, building affordable homes ,acceleratin manufacturing and ensuring affordable healthcare, youths are in direct line to benefit from all those investments. Creating jobs through manufacturing will enable youths get something to depend on and when their decised to start families with a stable income their will need health care facilities , their will need an affordable housing for the families and this in one way or the other helps in building the economy.                  Photo credited by Google  We need to drop the culture and the mindset that if the young people get educated it will position them to ...

Deforestation slowly kills the world

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 DEFORESTATION SLOWLY KILLS THE WORLD                      Photo by Google  And what do we really mean when we say the word climate change , we mean a long –term shift in temperatures and weather patterns. And these shift may be natural , such as through variations in the solar cycle. Since 1800s ,human activities have been the main driver of climate change , primarily due to burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.               Photo by Google  DEFORESTATION is the decrease in forest areas across the world that are lost for other uses such as agricultural urbanization and mining activities. Deforestation is a major cause of climate change , since people clear wide areas of the trees and thus leaving open areas or should I call it ‘desert’. This leads to soil erosion ,which has great effects on the environment especially loss of the fertile land thus leading to less or no f...
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ANOTHER BRIGHTER DAY FOR MOMBASA RESIDENTS Photo by Google Kenya port Authority was established in January 1978 under an Act of the parliament, KPA is mandated to” Manage,maintain,regulate , improve and operate all scheduled seaports “ on the indiani ocean coastline of Kenya , including kilindini harbor at Mombasa. And other KPA that includes Lamu , Malindi , Kilifi , Mtwapa , Kiunga , shimoni, Funzi and Vanga.                   Photo by Google  Back in 2019 president Uhuru Kenyatta launched the extended standard gauge railway (SGR) to offer services from Mombasa to the Naivasha Inland Container Depots (ICDs), promising faster transportation of cargo to western Kenya and on to neighbouring countries. He also put in place various policies to protect SGR but instead it ended up hurting transporters who lost thousands of jobs at the Kenyan coast. This was to ensure the SGR has minimum guaranteed business to repay the KSH450 billion deb...

Why it hurts so much

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 WHY DOES IT HURT SO MUCH We love love. Yeah we do. Love sends us to joyous , lofty height that never want to come down from. And the love we feel for others it’s the same which can send us or make us find ourselves in more toxic relationships. Love is blinding , you might not release the toxicity in a relationship until too late and that might be when you have marks all over your body that’s when you might see something is missing for a while.               Photo by Google  Its everyones dream to find love and a lover in the high institution of learnig, but unfortunately some falls into a relationships that shade of wrong from outset will trying to find that love in campus. For the love and a crush one might thing they have , but instead a gup in their lives since they lost their highschool lovers or they exes. ‘darling ypu look so pretty , you’re the image of my ex!’ they might go ahead and show you pictures of their exes in their phon...

MEET THE MIJIKENDA

 MEET THE MIJIKENDAS. OCTOMBER 2ND,2022 Mijikenda is a group of nine Bantu enthnic groups inhabiting the coast of Kenya, between the sabaki the umba river , in an area stretching from the border with Tanzania in south to the border near Somalia in the North. In history the mijikenda were called the ‘Nyika’ or ‘Nika’ which meant “bush people” The Mijikenda which means ‘Nine’ comprise the Giriama, Chonyi, Jibana, Kambe, Ribe, Kauma , Rabai, Duruma and Digo. The largest group of Mijikenda are Giriama who numbered about 350,000 in 1987, and the Duruma , with a population of approximately 190,000 in 1986. The are found in Tanzania due to the their proximity to the common border , that making them to be the southern mijikenda while the others are Northern Mijikenda. The group share a common linguistic and cultural heritage. The mijikenda speak a separate dialect of the same language. They are one of ethnic communities in Kenya apart from masai who have maintained tranditional beliefs ...