The Standard (Kenya)

2 days ago | standardmedia.co.ke | XN Iraki

It’s one of the most memorable moments of my childhood: drinking water from the river or directly from the tap; it was never treated with chemicals. I don’t recall anyone being hospitalised. I also don’t recall my dad buying fertiliser during the planting season. We made organic fertiliser from animal droppings and other organic wastes. And crops flourished; we even reclaimed barren land. Rain came as predicted, the rivers were crystal clear, and cancer was rare.

3 days ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Maarufu Mohamed

It was just a normal golfing day combined with Easter holidays, but this time it turned out to be historic for home club’s veteran golfers William Kaguta and Susan Stokes at Nyali Golf and Country Club in Mombasa County on Saturday. Handicap 5 Kaguta recorded a handsome two over par 73 gross and handicap 10 Stokes returned 83 gross to enjoy the Easter holidays after soundly emerging the day’s best respective gross winners of the April Mug and Medal tournament played at the par 71 course.

4 days ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Anjellah Owino

Art has been around for as long as people have existed, maybe even longer. In Africa, traditional forms of art like pottery, basket weaving, carving, storytelling, music, and beadwork were made entirely by hand. This kind of original, handmade creativity is being celebrated today, on World Art Day, which also happens to be Leonardo da Vinci’s birthday.

4 days ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Anjellah Owino

Two incredible artworks, Natalya Nduta’s painting and Seth Kabacho’s drawings, were among the top winners of the Live Free Art Competition by Jubilee Life Insurance. Natalya and Seth (Pictured) are two of ten talented young artists who have each earned full secondary school scholarships, a prize valued at a total of Sh3 million. Natalya Nduta’s painting shows a young girl climbing up a ladder towards a dark blue night sky. Around her is a galaxy of stars and a yellow-orange moon.

4 days ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Esther Muchene

Few things in this life are as painful as feeling shunned or excluded by your own family. For many people, being left out of family events, conversations or decisions can feel like a betrayal. Why this hurts more is because family is where we expect to find belonging. But when that bond is broken, the emotional fallout is usually profound. And that begs the question, why does it happen? Well, the truth is, family exclusion can stem from many places.