Newsroom.
The latest news, press releases, blogs, and demos from Uratibu. Research on governance and public investment, announcements from the firm, and working notes from the field on what the evidence actually shows.
Latest
- Yeyo and the Return of the Voice Yeyo by Ochiko featuring Coster Ojwang carries the Benga inheritance into a new generation, two voices that rub against each other like flint meets steel. It also leaves a question about what it takes to build a lasting house around the music we love.
- From Vision to Conversion: What the Kenya Industrialisation Summit 2026 Means for the Country, Its Investors and the Road Beyond 2030 The Kenya Industrialisation Summit 2026 put the industrial agenda on the record with baselines, instruments and commitments that can be checked. Manufacturing sits at about 7.2 per cent of GDP against a 20 per cent target, so the next chapter is converting announced capital into operating factories, delivered megawatts and sustained jobs. Uratibu sets out a ten-indicator scorecard to track it.
- The Fruit That Cannot Wait and the Oil That Can: Kenya's Avocado Industry and the Case for Owning the Oil Kenya grows avocados better per hectare than Mexico and has just frozen sea exports for want of ripe fruit. Priced per kilogram of fruit rather than per kilogram of oil, crude pressing is a salvage outlet and only refined, branded oil can compete with fresh export. The margin sits abroad, and seven sequenced actions would bring it home.
- A Sovereign Development Calculus for Africa's Infrastructure and Mineral Wealth The Standard Gauge Railway and the Mrima Hill mineral tender are the same negotiation, asked twelve years apart, whether sovereign capital builds a domestic industry that outlives the debt, or leaves the country as fast as it arrived.
- The Twiga Ledger: What Kenya's Biggest Agri-Tech Collapse Tells Investors, Regulators and Founders Twiga Foods' collapse into administration is not a story about one founder's mistakes. Read as data, it is a readable map of where Kenya's capital markets, regulatory patchwork, climate exposure and regional cost structure converge to make certain business models structurally unviable.
- Africa's Sovereignty Moment: The Continent That Refuses to Wait for an Invitation From resource sovereignty to value sovereignty, and why Africa's next economic battle is not over what it owns, but what it keeps.
- The Cost of Waiting Every institution claims to plan, and almost none anticipate. Across climate, economics, demography and leadership, the same structural error repeats, waiting for the data to become a disaster before anyone mobilises.
- The Governance Deficit Why political discontinuity, not capital scarcity, is Africa's binding constraint, and what six African states are already proving about the fix.
- The Beautiful Game Has A Data Problem What the 2026 World Cup teaches Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania about building a better AFCON 2027.
- Uratibu Opens Its Newsroom A single place for the briefs, field notes and announcements that were previously circulated privately.