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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 SHELVESEast Africa’s family-owned retailers are struggling to adapt to a changing businessQuartz Africa • September 20, 2017
STUBBORN SUPPLYAs other African countries ban donkey slaughter, Kenya doubles down to meet Chinese demandQuartz Africa • August 28, 2017
THE NEWS YOU WANTKenya’s newspapers give voters the front pages they want to sell more copiesQuartz Africa • August 7, 2017
VOTING TIMENairobi is becoming a ghost town as a tense and tightly-contested election nearsQuartz Africa • August 6, 2017
CONSUMEDThe mounting debt at East Africa’s top supermarket chains is souring a rising middle class narrativeQuartz Africa • June 29, 2017
MUZZLEDTanzania’s president is trying to force the media to shut up, listen and be niceQuartz Africa • April 3, 2017
INVISIBLE BABIESTanzania is accelerating a mobile phone program to provide more newborns with birth certificatesQuartz Africa • March 27, 2017
VERY MOBILE MONEYUS State Dept thinks Africa’s leading mobile money platform is vulnerable to money launderingQuartz Africa • March 6, 2017
COMPETITIONKenyan banks have joined forces to launch a mobile money rival to M-PesaQuartz Africa • February 17, 2017
IT'S MY COUNTRY TOOIt’s taken 80 years for this Kenyan community to be recognized as citizensQuartz Africa • February 15, 2017