THE ELL JOURNAL

Books have been written, documentaries have been made, many self help experts, psychologists and philosophers have posited not once, not a thousand times but nearly a million times to death being something that we shouldn't be afraid of. Herbert Fingarette is one of those philosophers who spent decades studying and teaching philosophy of life and even wrote a book about death among other books.  He taught philosophy for forty years at the University of California and was convinced that death is not something that one should be afraid of or even worry about. For what is death when you no longer feel,see or understand?  It is basically what you and I through many sources have gotten to believe. However, there is more to death than the basic understanding of mortality and leaving this world to a painless next life(who knows?).  There is more to staring at death and understanding the psychology of dying. I read a story about a young man where the he tells how some experiences...

It's been a while since I read a Sunday Nation's lifestyle magazine. In the years between 2011 and 2014, it was a religious practice to wait for the next Sunday so as to read Mwalimu Andrew's column Staffroom diary,Yusuf K Dawood's Surgeon's diary and also Chris Hart's column on relationships,assume it was the literature for me and not relationship advise. Highschool absorbed me and my magazine reading took a dive off the plane.  But am glad I would later get to be a fan of the Nairobian and met the pen of Silas Nyanchwani in his retrosexual column and Tony Mochama in the pulse magazine, just to mention a few. After those good years of newspaper and magazine readership,I have been slow about reading them. I don't remember the last time I read from a newspaper, leave alone the insiders, except the headlines I bump on the streets in the busy buzzing Nairobi days. One thing I remember for sure, is the excitement that came with waiting for the next piece of writ...

“Young people without jobs can destabilise society.” - Michael Sudarkasa, Chief Executive Officer of Africa Business Group.  The words of Michael reflects on the youth unemployment crisis in the whole of Africa and it relationship directly to the many societal ills that accompany unemployment that's seen across the continent, courtesy to unproductive minds. The world population is growing, especially in Africa,and global food systems are proving to be inadequate to meet the growing demand.  As the world advances,there are new problems that emerge and there is need for solutions which doubles up as businesses to fill these market gaps in providing the solutions. One major problem is food security and nutrition that comes with increased population that translates to difficulty in providing for. In Africa, the large unemployment is a crisis that accelerates poverty and the large work force which mostly is in rural Africa Should be tapped to ensure more employment and income earni...