The Political Economist

M rima Hill in Kwale County has quietly sat for centuries as a sacred and culturally significant site for the surrounding Digo community. But beneath this spiritual landscape lies one of the most valuable mineral deposits in modern times: rare earth minerals. Rare earths are a group of 17 elements essential to the technologies that drive the global economy today—electric vehicle motors, wind turbines, smartphones, advanced military equipment, and nearly every green-energy innovation on the planet. The world cannot transition to clean energy or maintain high-tech manufacturing without them. And Kenya is sitting on a hill packed with them. Recent geological studies e stimate that Mrima Hill holds rare earth minerals valued at nearly USD 60 billion. That figure is close to half the size of Kenya’s entire GDP. In Kenyan shillings, that is roughly KSh 9.3 trillion—money that could transform not just the coast, but the country at large. Currently, an Australian consortium has been granted ...

                                                “There will be no Church   in the next 200 years, am not saying ‘No Faith & God’, but ‘No Church’, get me clear!” I once heard these words in a certain podcast, didn’t take them seriously but now there is a coming belief that person who said them was not actually crazy as I had thought in that moment. I n the   present fast-shifting worldscape , the ascendancy of organized religions is undergoing through   intense alteration than ever before in the history of religious transformation . Once foundations of soc iocultural power, organized religions such as Christianity are immensely facing unprecedented drawbacks , especially in regards to the youth population. This trend is not exclusive to Christianity but it extends to other stronger faiths such as Islam , Hinduism , Buddhism. However, this dec...