About Chanua KE
What we're for, how we work, and what we'll never do.
Chanua is Kiswahili for to bloom, to open, to unfold. That is the whole idea: taking something closed and opening it up.
Kenyan business and financial news is not short of coverage. It is short of explanation. There is no shortage of people telling you the Central Bank held rates. There are very few telling you what that does to a borrower, a bank, a saver and a graduate interview — and fewer still showing you the mechanism in between rather than asserting the conclusion.
That gap is what we are for.
Who this is for
Finance, economics, accounting and business students. People preparing for internships and graduate programmes. Young professionals who want to follow markets properly rather than through screenshots. Anyone who has read a headline about the shilling and thought okay, but what does that actually mean for me.
We are not trying to teach you to budget. Plenty of good people in Kenya already do that well. We are trying to teach you how the machinery works, and then how to talk about it.
The four steps
Every story we publish goes through the same four steps, in the same order, every time.
01 — The Hook. What happened. The event, the date, the one number that matters.
02 — The Kenya Angle. Not "here is a Kenyan connection" but a chain: event, then the financial or economic mechanism, then how it reaches Kenya, then the consequence. If we cannot build that chain honestly, we do not force one. Some global stories simply do not reach here, and saying so is more useful than inventing a link.
03 — What to Watch. Two to four specific things that decide what happens next — with the bigger lesson underneath, because the point is not this story, it is the pattern.
04 — Interview Edge. The question an interviewer would build from the story, what they are actually testing, and thirty seconds of answer you could say out loud.
The structure is repetitive on purpose. After a few issues it stops being a format and becomes a way of thinking — which is the actual product.
How we work
We show our work. Every number names the source that published it and the date. Click through and check us. If a figure is our own calculation rather than an official series, we say so explicitly.
Primary sources first. CBK, KNBS, the NSE, the CMA, the National Treasury, the KRA, company annual reports and investor relations pages. These are free and they are better than anybody's summary of them. Where we use reporting, we name the outlet.
We never invent a number. If we cannot verify a figure, we leave the space empty and say we could not verify it. You will see that on this site — market tiles that say "awaiting source" rather than showing a plausible-looking number. That is deliberate and it is not going to change.
Fact, analysis and opinion stay separate. You should always be able to tell which one you are reading. Facts carry sources. Analysis is reasoning you can follow and disagree with. Opinion is labelled.
We never pretend a question was asked. Every interview question we publish carries a label: asked in a real interview, from a published framework, or practice question written by us. An archive of interview questions is only worth something if that distinction is absolutely rigid, so it is.
We tell you when we are wrong. Corrections get published, not quietly edited out.
What we are not
We are not licensed investment, tax or legal advisers. We do not hold anyone's money, we never will, and nothing on this site is a recommendation to buy or sell anything. We do not run ads and we do not take payment for coverage. If that ever changes, it will be disclosed on this page before it happens anywhere else.
Where this is going
Right now Chanua KE is a weekly Brief, a free library of explainers, and a small careers section. That is deliberately narrow.
The plan is for it to become the place an ambitious Kenyan student goes before a finance interview — which means the careers side grows, the question archive grows, and eventually there are courses and tools. But those come after we have proved we can publish something genuinely useful every single week. Everything else is a distraction until then.
Say hello
Corrections, questions, disagreements, or a question you were asked in an interview — all welcome. Get in touch.