Why people get headaches from looking at buildings

By CNN,

It's three o'clock. You're at work, struggling to focus during the afternoon lull. You gaze out of your office window, hoping for some relief, but ins...

tall buildings

Sponsored: Infrastructure projects: Being on the lookout for cost overruns

By Sponsored,

“48 percent of projects were over budget and 87 percent of projects have a time overrun.” – Deloitte East Africa [1] It’s all fine and dand...

centum

U.S. eases restrictions on Huawei, founder says Chinese firm underestimated

By Reuters,

The U.S. government has temporarily eased trade restrictions imposed last week on China’s Huawei, a move aimed at minimizing disruption for its cust...

Huawei

Kwame Brathwaite’s powerful photos of the ‘Black is Beautiful’ movement

By CNN,

To some, Kwame Brathwaite was the "Keeper of the Images," capturing black creativity and expression in its purest and most candid of forms. Between th...

Kwame Brathwaite

How designers are changing the conversation around lingerie

By CNN,

For decades, padded push-up bras, lace-lined bodysuits and slim, voluptuous Victoria's Secret models have shaped public perceptions of what "sexy" loo...

designers

Can happiness be exported? One Finnish school believes so

By CNN,

Finland has emerged as the happiest nation in the world, and not for the first time. The Nordic country, home to just 5.5 million people, scooped t...

Finland , happiness

S. Korea alert system warns ‘smartphone zombies’ of traffic

By VOA,

A city in South Korea, which has the world's highest smartphone penetration rate, has installed flickering lights and laser beams at a road crossing t...

smombies , South Korea , Traffic

Passion for fashion: Zia’s journey from mitumba sales girl to dressing celebs

By Flavian Taria,

Starting an online business is never easy, especially an online clothing line as opposed to high street fashion shops. It takes passion determinati...

Zia Collection

Gikomba 101: How to avoid being ripped off by mitumba sellers

By Eric Ndubi,

What I hate more than being swindled by a casually dressed tour operator is being ripped off by a sweet-talking hawker. That said you might have wi...

entrepreneurs , Fashion Watch , gikomba , Gikomba market. , Hawkers , Mutumba , Nairobi CBD , savings , Second-hand clothes , Style and Fashion , textile industry , Toi Market

A year of glamour and gaffes: Making sense of Melania’s style

By CNN,

It's really too bad that the highlights of First Lady Melania Trump's year in fashion are her faux pas. There was, memorably, the "I really don't care...

Burberry , Calvin Klein , Christian Dior , Dolce & Gabbana , Domenico Dolce , First lady Melania Trump , Jean-Georges , kenya , Laura Bush , Marc Jacobs , Ralph Lauren , Raquel Welch-esque , Roland Mouret , Sophie Theallet , Stefano Gabbana , Tanzania , Tom Ford , victoria Beckham

Sex, gender and morality: The unseen history of underwear

By CNN,

Why do we wear underwear? Whether for health, hygiene, sensory or fashionable purposes, the evolution of our undergarments is one that directly lin...

Dita Von Teese , Gwyneth Paltrow , Kate Moss , lingerie , underwear , Vivienne Westwood

How Hyundai Motor, once a rising star, lost its shine

By Reuters,

At a near-empty Hyundai Motor showroom in the Chinese mega city of Chongqing, the store manager is grumbling about his shortage of customers and a lac...

BAIC , General Motors , Hyundai Motor , Nissan

Uhuru directs Energy CS Keter to review electricity charges

By Ian Omondi,

President Uhuru Kenyatta has directed Energy Cabinet Secretary Charles Keter to review electricity tariffs within one month to ensure the cost of pow...

DP William Ruto , Electricity cost , President Uhuru Kenyatta , Strathmore Business School

Ahead of their time: 10 radical cars that never were

By CNN,

The automotive industry is facing some of the biggest changes in its history. In the foreseeable future, most cars will be either fully electric or en...

Automotive industry , automotive sector , Foreseeable future

Waititu now says owners of buildings on riparian land are victims

By Ian Omondi,

Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu now wants demolitions of structures built on riparian land stopped and a committee formed to look into other availab...

demolitions , Governor Ferdinand Waititu , Kiambu County , Riparian land

World Cup 2018: Design secrets behind this year’s most stylish kits

By CNN,

The shirt is sacrosanct. It declares who you are and where your allegiances lie, and, as importantly, separates you from the dreaded "other," that lot...

Belgium , Columbia , Germant , Mundial , SoccerBible , Tottenham Hotspur , World cup

Woman pimps up matatus in male-dominated industry

By Reuters,

Growing up in Nairobi’s Mathare slum, Sarafina Mumbi could easily have ended up like many teenage girls living there - dropping out of school, pregn...

matatu artist , Mathare , Nairobi , Sarafina Mumbi

Love it or not, Formula One has a halo

By Reuters,

It is safe to say that Formula One’s clunky ‘halo’ head protection device, the most obvious novelty of the 2018 season, has divided opinion. ...

Formula One , halo

The next big thing in phones may not be a phone

By Agencies,

Nearly a decade after the iPhone broke the mould for mobile phones the question is now being asked whether the evolution of the smartphone has finally...

iphones , mobile phones , Samsung

Tired of war, South Sudanese youth turn to art to push for peace

By Reuters,

South Sudanese activists are using music, poetry, theatre, comedy, dance and fashion to preach tolerance in the world's youngest nation which has been...