A banking hall at a local bank. The political class is increasingly investing in the sector. [File, Agencies]
Climate change has been a bonanza for historians and researchers.
Falling water levels in dams, lakes, or rivers reveal submerged civilisations and crimes. A good example is the discovery of human remains as the water level in Lake Mead and the Hoover Dam on the Arizona-Nevada border fell in 2022.
Think of the curiosity arising from the human remains. Who was that? How did he die? When? Falling river water levels have revealed remains of ancient civilisations in China on the Yangtze River and exposed sunken World War II (WWII) warships on the Danube River in Europe.
Our rivers are too small to reveal much, except maybe River Yala. Have we really fathomed the long-term consequences of climatic change?
Receding economic history waters in Kenya reveal a lot of unknowns, more so with receding national curiosity. Noted that no one nowadays comments on forwards or anything shared on groups, except using emojis?
Even lecture halls have become quieter, compared with the generation that had no social media.
Receding historical and economic waters reveal a lot about South Africa's economic links to Kenya. Climate change in this case is the government's appetite for money leading to the sale of Safaricom to South Africans.