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Joshua Masinde

Joshua Masinde is a journalist based in Nairobi and writes about the socio-economic landscape in East Africa. Follow him @masindej.

EMPTY SHELVES
East Africa’s family-owned retailers are struggling to adapt to a changing business
Sept. 20, 2017Quartz
STUBBORN SUPPLY
As other African countries ban donkey slaughter, Kenya doubles down to meet Chinese demand
Aug. 28, 2017Quartz
THE NEWS YOU WANT
Kenya’s newspapers give voters the front pages they want to sell more copies
Aug. 7, 2017Quartz
VOTING TIME
Nairobi is becoming a ghost town as a tense and tightly-contested election nears
Aug. 6, 2017Quartz
CONSUMED
The mounting debt at East Africa’s top supermarket chains is souring a rising middle class narrative
June 29, 2017Quartz
MUZZLED
Tanzania’s president is trying to force the media to shut up, listen and be nice
April 3, 2017Quartz
INVISIBLE BABIES
Tanzania is accelerating a mobile phone program to provide more newborns with birth certificates
March 27, 2017Quartz
VERY MOBILE MONEY
US State Dept thinks Africa’s leading mobile money platform is vulnerable to money laundering
March 6, 2017Quartz
COMPETITION
Kenyan banks have joined forces to launch a mobile money rival to M-Pesa
Feb. 17, 2017Quartz
IT'S MY COUNTRY TOO
It’s taken 80 years for this Kenyan community to be recognized as citizens
Feb. 15, 2017Quartz