Top 25 Most Transformative Leaders Impacting Business

Lady CJ Martha Koome’s exemplary track record in expediting the administration of justice and in particular, clearing of case backlogs, a perennial challenge, if not an excuse affecting the Judiciary, works in her favour, as she takes the helm as the head of the third estate in Kenya.

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Top 25 Most Transformative Leaders Impacting Business

CS Fred Matiang’i’s rise in the public sector started in 2013 when President Uhuru Kenyatta, keen on accelerating the digital transformation kick-started by former President Kibaki, tapped him from academia to head the ICT ministry.

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Publisher’s Note: Selection criteria for Top 25 Most Transformative Leaders to Watch in 2021

From our analysis, these 25 men and women appear to share a common thread: they remain consistent in pursuing results in all the public spaces they occupy, they display hard work, patience, focus and diligence. And that in staying the course, these are the attributes of leadership needed to transform institutions, systems and processes.

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Hip hop and Pan Africanism: from Blitz the Ambassador to Beyoncé

We’ve seen important collaborations between hip hop artists across Africa and in the diaspora that go back to the early 1990s. But we see an increase after 2010. When African artists started using social media and file sharing, they were able to increase their collaborations.

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5 ways the Biden administration may help stem the loss of international students

President Joe Biden’s election signals a new day for international education. This is evident based on a slew of Biden’s executive orders, many of which revoked immigration and travel restrictions imposed by the Trump administration.

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US anti-abortion “gag rule” hits women hard: What we found in Kenya and Madagascar

The Global Gag Rule requires non-governmental organisations (NGOs) based outside the US that receive US government global health assistance to certify that they will not use any funding to provide legal abortion services, referrals, or information to clients, or to advocate for the liberalisation of a country’s abortion law.

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Nairobi’s airports – windows on Kenya’s colonial past and top-down planning

After a technical engineering study of the Embakasi site, and piles of dense estimating, accounting, and reporting, a financial resolution was found. In May 1953 the Kenya Legislative Assembly agreed to the construction of the city’s third airport there.

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Ethiopia’s next poll could be more competitive. But big challenges remain

Ethiopia’s party system is extremely volatile. Political parties are weak and fragmented. And the elections will take place amid the upheaval in Tigray, one of the country’s 10 federal regions.

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