by Benard Makaa | Dec 11, 2017 | Career, Education
DATE &TIME 05TH December, 2017, 06:30 to 07:30 PM Nairobi local time VENUE Nairobi Garage Westlands; M2, Mirage Towers, Westlands Chiromo Road. “Be the change you want to see in the world” Mahatma Gandhi. If you truly believe in an idea, you must be prepared to...
by Benard Makaa | Nov 30, 2017 | Conferences, Education
This a summary of notes I took when I attended an After Office Talk by Kennedy Njoroge, the CEO of Cellulant. Ken is leading Cellulant to achieve its mission of building a world class, value-driven $1B business by digitizing payments for the largest economies in...
by Benard Makaa | Nov 23, 2017 | Books, Education
Dear Friend, I’d like to thank you for responding to this post. I am glad and grateful that you’ve given me this opportunity to share how you can get the free revision guide book with you. You may be a teacher, parent or student. Why is the book free? Here is why. My...
by Benard Makaa | Oct 9, 2017 | Career, Conferences
Dear Fellow Student, Will you do me a favour? For four years now, we have been having the famous “East African Students for Liberty Conference” hosted for free in Kenya. This year, the conference is still free and will still be held in Kenya. Nothing much has really...
by Benard Makaa | Oct 3, 2017 | Career, Education, Scholarships
Dear Friend, Scholarships are a great, affordable way to advance your academic/professional career. I am so far a beneficiary of two scholarships: the JKF Scholarship (high school), the HELB Partial Scholarship (MSc. Electrical Engineering at JKUAT) & AFDB...
by Benard Makaa | Sep 19, 2017 | Education, KCSE
Love them or hate them, it’s hard to get away from exams. All that preparation before the big day, a race against the clock as you sit at the desk, and the aftermath that sometimes feels as stressful as the exam itself. Effective technique goes beyond the exam hall. ...
by Benard Makaa | Aug 30, 2017 | Books
“One never knows, when he enters an elevator or tears open an envelope or picks up the telephone, what new trick of fortune may be about to be played. Every day is a new series of adventures; around the next corner may lie the event that will change a whole career.”...
by Benard Makaa | Aug 30, 2017 | Blog
Book Synopsis: Everyone knew him then: Bruce Barton was a cultural icon. Two-thirds of American history textbooks today cite him to illustrate the 1920s adoration of the business mentality that then dominated American culture. Historians quote from his enormous...
by Benard Makaa | Aug 30, 2017 | Books
DEAR READER: Will you set me right on one point about yourself? I’m wondering if your idea of the Christ is like that of most people—a “Man of Sorrows,” sent to this earth to undergo certain sacrificial experiences, glad to get them ...
by Benard Makaa | Aug 22, 2017 | Blog, Books, Education
Dear Friend, Would you like to make some real improvement in your studies or those of your students or children? I do not mean a few marks or subjects here and there. I mean REAL, MASSIVE improvements. Huge shifts than you ever thought you would see. Believe it or...
by Benard Makaa | Aug 14, 2017 | Education
The essay is called “The Common Language of Science.” It was recorded in September of 1941 as a radio address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The recording was apparently made in America, as Einstein never returned to Europe...
by Benard Makaa | Aug 14, 2017 | Education
Einstein delivered the speech on October 3, 1933 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. As it turned out, the speech was something of a farewell address to his native continent. Four days later Einstein boarded a ship to America and never returned to Europe. The speech...
by Benard Makaa | Jul 30, 2017 | Books
ISBN: 9789966107107 Date read: 2017-07-27 How strongly I recommend it: 8/10 Deep look at friendship and courtship. It chronicles Diane and Andrews 8 year’s journey before they got married while simultaneously sharing lessons learnt. Interlaced in her story are...
by Benard Makaa | Jul 24, 2017 | Education
A friend requested for this, and I thought it a good idea to just share with him and everyone else who might be interested. This is a very small percentage record of an event that took almost four hours. The guest’s had inspiring stories of their early beginnings and...
