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Week 22: The bright star in my constellation
This is not a sad story, because it is relatively common place among my peers to have had another man step in with the absence of the...

Mary Mutinda
May 21, 20218 min read


Week 21: Nyererism and the incubation of the policy moments in Africa
Many African political independence luminaries and social transformers such as Kwame Nkrumah, Ahmed Sékou Touré, and Julius Nyerere—...

Mary Mutinda
Apr 29, 20213 min read


Week 20: Crafting an alternative ideology - What African systems can teach the world
Neo-liberalism is not a physical tower that we can tear down and wish away. Its an ideology - a set of dominant ideas and beliefs that...

Mary Mutinda
Apr 10, 20213 min read
Week 19: The Miseducation of Me - the pubescent African transformer
It's funny how money change a situation; Miscommunication leads to complication; My emancipation don't fit your equation …… You might win...

Mary Mutinda
Apr 10, 20215 min read


Week 18: The Shortcomings of Neo-liberalism - Part 3 (Visualizing the missing pillars)
Neoliberalism is larger than neoliberal economics. It permeates every fabric of social life. Economics is just but one of the...

Mary Mutinda
Mar 9, 20213 min read


Week 17: The Shortcomings of Neo-liberalism - Part 2 (Reddit vs the billionaire hedge funds)
The little man in the big stock market game got a double Christmas bonanza 2020/2021. This is all to do with some social justice...

Mary Mutinda
Feb 16, 20216 min read


Week 16: Why Quantitative research is a wrong fit in informing the human development agenda
The mind frame that ideas are formed on one side of the globe and tested on another should not sit well with any human development policy...

Mary Mutinda
Feb 11, 20212 min read


Week 15: The glue that holds the 45 nations under one state of Kenya
The diversity of social norms, cultures and moral codes present in Kenya logically (on paper) makes it ungovernable as one state. The...

Mary Mutinda
Feb 11, 20215 min read


Week 14: The Shortcomings of Neo-liberalism - Part 1
Neo-liberalism as an ideology has multiple configurations which in-common romance supremacy of markets in solving human problems,...

Mary Mutinda
Feb 8, 20216 min read


Week 13: Making Nairobi great .... again....
Summary: Born, growing up, working and living in Nairobi – I can testify that the emperor that was the “city in the sun” and the...

Mary Mutinda
Jan 27, 202110 min read
Week 12 PhD on the business card (part 2)
So here goes my seven levels deep - why's How I perceive the problem: The urban poor household pays a premium for lower quality basic...

Mary Mutinda
Jan 20, 20213 min read
Week 11 PhD on the business card (part 1)
How I perceive the problem help her think through three questions posed by her PhD mentor: Why are you taking on PhD (opportunity cost)...

Mary Mutinda
Jan 20, 20214 min read
Week 9 : Can the subaltern speak
Post colonialism looks into the lingering effects of colonialism decades nearing centuries after the political emancipation because...

Mary Mutinda
Dec 7, 20203 min read
Week 10 - Why is an actuary studying sociology and specializing in governance?
One thing I have been particularly appreciative of my journey of knowledge and career is that I never lost the freedom to persistently...

Mary Mutinda
Dec 4, 20203 min read
Week 8 - Choosing my PhD in Social Transformation
The Choice Journey to PhD in Social Transformation at Tangaza University College was by far not straight. Challenge 1: Area of study I...

Mary Mutinda
Nov 25, 20205 min read
Week 7 – Crafting the human development agenda through the thinking of Dudley Seers (1977)
Dudley seer argues in setting development yardsticks we should depart from abstract measures of economic growth and seek to answer the...

Mary Mutinda
Nov 20, 20202 min read
Week 6 - (Insertion) Why affordable mortgage is fundamentally wrong
In 2013 I was co-opted into a 7 year multidisciplinary research project collaborating with the City County of Nairobi that sought to...

Mary Mutinda
Nov 20, 202010 min read
Week 5 - The Theoretical statistician
Mathematics is a beautiful language – it reveals the patterns in nature, in society intricately webbed together. Statistics is a one of...

Mary Mutinda
Nov 14, 20202 min read
Week 4 - Sustainable Governance
By the time I logged in for my first PhD class it was crystal clear in my mind. The paradox of undignified housing, poverty penalty and...

Mary Mutinda
Oct 3, 20202 min read
Week 3 - Insertion. Understanding the dilemma on the ownership and rights to slum land.
Once there was a father who bequeathed a portion of his land to his son as was customary. With time, the father aged and was weak in...

Mary Mutinda
Sep 26, 20202 min read
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