HelaIsMoney — The Chama Goes Digital
The chama is the foundational financial institution of Kenya. Not the bank, not the SACCO, not the mobile money platform — the chama. The in...
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FIELD
Friday, July 31, 2026
Waiyaki Way at Rush Hour
Every city has a diagnostic road. The road that tells you what the city actually is, as opposed to what it presents itself as being. Nairobi...
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BUILD
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Why I Built on Blogger
The choice to build A.I. Kung Fu on Blogger is deliberate and requires explaining, because the instinctive developer reaction is to reach fo...
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DATA
Sunday, May 31, 2026
The NGO Data Vacuum
In April 2025, the United States government began cutting foreign assistance funding at a scale not seen since the end of the Cold War. The ...
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TOOL
Thursday, April 30, 2026
Mafuriko — Flood Intelligence for Urban Kenya
Mafuriko is the Swahili word for flood. It is also the name of the first tool in the resilience stack — a flood intelligence system built fo...
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Index
Monday, April 6, 2026
The 16 Tools — Complete Inventory
a.i. kung fu The 16 Tools Open-source decision infrastructure for under-resourced institutions, NGOs, journalists, developers, and communiti...
Read dispatchTaarifa ipo — lakini haiwezi kutufikia
The data exists — but it cannot reach us. Serikali ya kaunti yako inachapisha taarifa ya bajeti kila mwaka. Bunge linaweka kumbukumbu ya m...
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FIELD
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Why I Came Back
I left Kenya in June 2011 and returned in April 2025. Fourteen years. Long enough for a country to change shape underneath your memory of it...
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I’ve been building software for Kenyan users for long enough to have a list of assumptions I made early that turned out to be wrong. Not th...
Read dispatchData mazao, maji, na bajeti ya kaunti ipo — lakini haifikii watu wanaohitaji
Thirteen tools. Zero institutional users. Here's why that's the right place to start. There is a gap in East African information in...
Read dispatchM-Pesa STK Push in Python: A Production Guide
Restoration note, September 3, 2026: This article was first published on March 18, 2026. The restoration preserves its production focus whil...
Read dispatchOpacity as the root cause
The problem is never the people Every project in this portfolio started from the same observation, arrived at from a different direction. ...
Read dispatchWhy M-Pesa, Africa’s Talking, and USSD were hard to find in AI-agent tooling — and what I did about it
Restoration note, September 4, 2026: This article was originally published on March 10, 2026. At that point the source repositories and two...
Read dispatchBUILD - Architecture
A year ago my GitHub profile had 47 repositories. Some were experimental. Some were half-finished. Several were duplicates of ideas I'...
Read dispatchFIELD - AI Africa
There's a version of the AI-in-Africa story that goes like this: the continent will leapfrog traditional digital infrastructure the wa...
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Business Insider
kenya
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Monday, February 23, 2026
DATA - County Level
Kenya has 47 counties. Each one has a government, a budget, a set of environmental conditions, a food security profile, and a population n...
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The Model Context Protocol is becoming the standard wiring layer between AI agents and external services. Stripe has an MCP server. Twilio...
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AI ethics
AI governance
AI moratorium
AI regulation
AI risks
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Elon Musk
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GPT-4
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Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Beyond the AI Moratorium: Collaborative Solutions for Responsible AI Development
While the concerns raised in the open letter signed by Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and others regarding the potential risks posed by powerful ...
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