Electricity consumers in the Coast, Rift Valley and Western provinces are expected to start paying for their power in advance as the Kenya Power and Lighting Company expands its prepaid meters programme out of Nairobi. This is a departure from the post-paid arrangement where customers use electricity and pay for…

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Investment clubs and Investments partnerships have been around for decades. They are the abridged version of chamas, and merry-go-rounds and obviously my choice bet for those new to investing and wish to learn about investing in friendly group settings. After awhile though individuals eventually find that the skills…

Lately, I have been meditating on the power of positive, optimistic attitude. My sense was that many of us need a periodic reminder to mind our attitudes, and apparently that’s a fundamentally true for most folks. Lots of people as with other articles wrote back to concur with the emotions…

A marvelous lesson appeared for me just now as I was exiting the office. As I opened the  door, I startled at a butterfly, which, upon spreading it’s wings, displayed a bright red “tail” hidden by the motley brown wings. It flew immediately to its perceived escape, the circle-topped…

My Grandpa is headed to 90 years, was trained as a teacher, joined the Mau Mau freedom fighters, quit teaching to be a farmer and investor. He has no formal finance training, he doesn’t understand stocks analysis, doesn’t know anything about pension plans, real estate bubbles, or the…

Successful people have always had clear, focused goals that guide them to greatness. Noted author and self-worth teacher Eric Butterworth* says, “Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.” When you couple his philosophy with the Eastern mysticism of “what…

(This is the 4th article in the Money 101 Managing Your Money Series. We advise that you start from the the first article in the Series. Please click here to go to the Money 101 Managing Your Money introduction) Having figured out where you would like to be and want to go, you now need to take a look at where you are. Some schools of thought advocate that you should start with assessing your current situation before setting goals. The problem with that is, for most people, their goals setting tends to get limited to merely correcting the problems with the current situation, rather than trying to get to where they would really like to be.