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Managing native ‘bush encroachment’ in East African rangelands

Bush encroachment has been and continue to be a big management challenge especially within savanna ecosystem in the tropics. Several approaches have been tried to manage the menace with varying level of success. There is need to urgently come up with effective method(s) of managing native bush encroachment especially within pastoral and agro-pastoral landscapes.

Barriers and enablers to effective climate adaptation through the eyes of pastoral communities in Kenya

Climate change continue to present a big challenge to food systems world over however, pastoralism production system seems to have been hit hard. We investigated investigated barriers and enablers for effective adaptation to climate change among agro-pastoralist and pastoralist communities in the semi-arid region of Isiolo, Meru, and Samburu counties of central Kenya. There, communities participated in Participatory Scenario Analysis (PSA) to gauge their level of preparedness, and assess possible options for adapting future increases in temperature.

Socially Inclusive Adaptation Knowledge Integration for Resilience Livelihood in Northern Kenya(SOAK)

This project aims at supporting pastoralists and agro- pastoralists to use transformative and socially inclusive adaptation knowledge to build the resilience of their livelihoods and landscapes in northern Kenya particularly in Isiolo County. The project is anchored on lessons and recommendations derived from previous research work undertaken by Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR) in the area.

Experts call for suicide decriminalisation in social circles

Dr Geoffrey Wango, a counselling psychologist and senior lecturer at the University of Nairobi, says a positive hopeful attitude to life grants us a purpose to pursue our dreams.

“People who are healthy, feel loved and cared for are not likely to feel lonely or hopeless and thus will not think about ending their lives through suicide. This is because suicide is sometimes a call for help,” he says.

He adds that many people who have confessed to having thought about suicide may not actually attempt it when they feel someone cares about them.

Move over, oldies! Millennials now the new bosses in tow

Dr Geoffrey Wango, a senior lecturer in counselling psychology at the University of Nairobi explained that salary is the most important factor in deciding a career path for them and they don’t care about organisational loyalty, history, or culture.

“Their attitude about what I want, values such as integrity, continuity tend to be lost on them,” he said.

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Will scrapping education degrees champion cause for CBC system?

According to Dr Geoffrey Wango, a senior education lecturer at the University of Nairobi, the change is long overdue.

“Many people with Bed did not choose the programme because they wanted to be teachers. Many were just enrolled on the course with neither the passion nor the interest to teach. If the BEd is phased out, only those who love teaching will opt to go for the diploma and that makes a lot of sense, and has the potential of creating better and committed teachers,” he says.

Why 30 is the decade friends disappear

Geoffrey Wango, a psychologist says that friendship tends to decay past 25 years because this is the time that most of your social circles are limited to those you can meet with occasionally.

He adds that even though finding those that you can rely on as friends might be hard, there are those that stick by your side through thick and thin, those who don’t mind the fact that you have a family that you need to take care of, or work to do when they need you to go out.

Celebration of our mother, Hannah Njoki

I truly thank God for my life, and the gift of my parents, my late father, Samuel Wango and my mother, Hannah Njoki. My mother passed on 24th March, 2021at the golden age of 92 years. A mother not only brings a child into life but also steers the child into the unknown world. Our mother gladly nurtured us physically, morally, emotionally, spiritually and intellectually, all the five (5) daughters and six (6) sons. Motherhood is a source of encouragement and inspiration; it is mothers who instil in us the courage to go on and the confidence that we can achieve it in life.