Our attention is finite, yet we spend it everywhere but where it matters. This is not a moral failure. It is a structural one. Attention economics is the idea that in a world overflowing with information, human attention becomes the scarce resource. Whoever captures it, holds power. Over time, this has reshaped not just markets, but inner lives. What we notice. What we ignore. What we can tolerate. What we can no longer sit with. For a long time, people warned that television would rot our brains. In hindsight, television looks almost generous. A show required you to stay for forty minutes. A film asked for two hours. A detective story invited you to notice details, to remember names, to hold multiple threads in your mind at once. You watched. You followed. You waited. Listening to music meant staying long enough to learn lyrics. Reading meant sitting with confusion until meaning arrived. Writing a poem meant wrestling with language, not skimming it. Even boredom had a purpose—it ...
In the pantheon of Kenya’s political elite, Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta stands out not for the clarity of his vision or the sharpness of his ideological commitments — but for the weight of his name, the power he inherited, and the ambivalence he often wore like a tailored suit. Born into privilege, raised in comfort, and handed platforms few Kenyans could dream of, Uhuru’s rise to the presidency felt less like the culmination of political passion and more like the fulfillment of a dynastic obligation. His tenure, spanning 2013 to 2022, left Kenya at a critical crossroads — with a complex legacy of infrastructural ambition, ballooning debt, tribal realignments, and elite indulgence. Yet for all the visibility, the man himself remains elusive: deeply known yet barely understood. Son, Husband, Father — But To Whom, Really? On paper, Uhuru Kenyatta is a family man. He married Margaret Wanjiru Gakuo in 1991, and together they have three children: Jomo, Jaba, and Ngina. Margaret was often praised ...