Kenya’s competition law as the velvet glove on AfCFTA’s iron fist of unequal power
By Jerameel Kevins Owuor Odhiambo In the financial year 2024/25 the Competition Authority of Kenya processed 128 merger... Read more.
The emperor’s new markets: How cartels in fertilizer, cement and steel still rule the regional kingdoms of SADC, COMESA and the EAC
By Jerameel Kevins Owuor Odhiambo In 2024 and into 2025, the COMESA Competition Commission publicly flagged two dominant... Read more.
The algorithmic company store: How Kenya’s digital platforms revived colonial monopsony under the banner of freedom
By Jerameel Kevins Owuor Odhiambo In 2024, full-time ride-hailing drivers on Kenya’s dominant platforms earned a net of... Read more.
How Kenya’s state-owned giants feast on preferential privilege while competition starves
By: Jerameel Kevins Owuor Odhiambo In the financial year ending June 2024, the Kenyan taxpayer poured the equivalent... Read more.
The public-private divide in competition law: Reconstructing rights-based private remedies for anticompetitive harm in Kenya and the East African Community
By Jerameel Kevins Owuor Odhiambo In Kenya, private enforcement of competition law is non-existent. The OECD’s peer review... Read more.
The pitch where fair play goes to die: Kenya’s competition law, the beautiful game, and the federations that prefer cartels to contests
By Jerameel Kevins Owuor Odhiambo In 2010 Kenya repealed its outdated 1989 competition statute and enacted the Competition... Read more.
Cartels in court, monopolies on thrones: The ironic economics of Kenya’s competition crusade
By Jerameel Kevins Owuor Odhiambo In 2023, the Competition Authority of Kenya imposed fines totalling KES 338.85 million... Read more.
The banquet of the untouchables: How Sub-Saharan Africa’s post-colonial elite feast on the bones of the excluded
By Jerameel Kevins Owuor Odhiambo In Kenya today, 125 individuals control more wealth than 42.6 million of their... Read more.
The politics you claim to hate is the landlord of your life: Kenya’s expensive delusion of apolitical purity
BY Jerameel Kevins Owuor Odhiambo In the 2022 general election, only 64.77 percent of Kenya’s 22.1 million registered... Read more.
Casual degrees, casual minds: Kenya’s higher education as a precarious gig economy
By Jerameel Kevins Owuor Odhiambo In 2025, Kenya’s universities enrolled 707,150 students while academic staff grew only to... Read more.