What Hesabu Is Actually About

When we named this show Hesabu, we meant it literally. Hesabu is Swahili for "counting" — and that's exactly what we do.

But we're not counting your savings or explaining compound interest. We're counting the things that matter: the billions borrowed in your name, the contracts signed behind closed doors, the promises made and broken. We're counting the names of those who died on June 25th, 2024, because someone has to.

Kenya's political economy is not complicated — it's obscured. There's a difference. The people who benefit from the confusion want you to believe you can't understand it. Hesabu exists to prove them wrong.

Every episode, we break down one piece of the puzzle. We name names. We cite sources. We ask the questions that don't get asked in official press conferences. We don't do "both sides" when one side is documented fact and the other is press release fiction.

This is accountability journalism for the diaspora and everyone back home who's tired of being told to wait for "the proper channels." The proper channels have been blocked. So we're going around them.

Start with Episode 1: Kabla ya Hukumu. Then tell us what you want us to count next.