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KENYA FINANCE BILL 2024

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KENYA FINANCE BILL 2024 The months of June and July were rather eventful ones for the Kenyan people. Almost everyone in the country was on stimulated and people's hearts were filled with rage. There were demonstrations all over the country with young people on the streets demonstrating and fighting against a government that they felt was not ideal to be ruling them. People attend a demonstration against Kenya's proposed finance bill 2024/2025 in Nairobi, Kenya, June 25, 2024. REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi All this was fuelled by the Finance bill that was released by the government on how they were planning to run the new financial year. The bill did not sit right as it imposed so many taxes on things such as fuel, importation and last but not least and absurd BREAD! These series of demonstrations led to the president of the republic holding an interview with three journalists from the biggest media houses in the country. This interview was an interview that will always go down in hist...
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MADE TO STICK

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MADE TO STICK On the evening of 16th of July 2024, our persuasive lecturer sent a book in the group chat with instructions for us to read the book and make presentations. As expected of students we shrugged thinking this was one of the many books you will have to read just for the purposes of graduating. Lol!! The biggest lesson I would say the book Made to stick by Chip and Dan Heath has taught me is the saying, never judge a book by its cover. When I first saw the book, I thought for sure it was one of those old books that would be a pain to read. However, after reading so far 3 chapters, I can proudly say that that book is very educative and surprisingly interesting. Dan and Chip use very distinct and well elaborated examples to pass the main concepts of the book. That I would say is the best writing strategy I have so far seen in the book. This strategy also sell them out as authors well versed with what they are talking about as the book is explaining why some ideas are actualiz...
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MAWOWO ADVERT

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  When you first hear of an advert that goes by the name ‘Mawowo’, the first thing that comes to mind is that this is definetily a snack advert or maybe a childrens advert, right? well you are not far from the correct answer but still not so accurate because Mawowo is actually a MILK advert. The correlation for using the name mawowo in a milk advert is that Mawowo actually represented the word ENERGY in the advert. Ilara milk company is a Kenyan dairy company that was founded in the year 2007. It has over the years managed to gain and retain face as a good company that produces fresh milk. However, Ilara gained more fame than ever before in the year 2018 when they launched an advert on the Kenyan television screens in that year. The advert was streamed by the major broadcasting houses in the country like Nation House Kenyan over a period of close to an year. This advert mainly targeted the younger audience from around the ages of 3 to 14. The advert was to sell Ilara as the best mi...
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