Geliana Maarifa

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Maarifa is Swahili for "knowledge." I built this because I kept catching myself making confident claims about Kenya's economy and health system with nothing but vibes and a misplaced sense of superiority. Turns out, sourcing actual data from Kenyan institutions is its own special kind of hell — there are no APIs, everything lives in PDFs, and you either read 400-page budget documents or ask an LLM to do your dirty work. This is the result of choosing the latter.

Economic Assumptions

Is the Silicon Savannah actually a thing? Are we really overtaxed? Does Kenya's debt compare to Ghana's 2022 meltdown? Graphs, data, and very few opinions.

Yes, I have opinions about debt-to-GNI ratios

Health Landscape

Kenya wants Universal Health Coverage. But 74% of us have zero insurance, the informal sector is a "missing middle," and our NCD diagnostic capacity sits at a cool 25%. This section hurts to look at.

Prepare to be depressed

Actually Cited

Every chart footnotes its source. World Bank, KDHS, Peer-Reviewed papers. I didn't make this up (even though it sometimes reads like I did).

Comparative Pain

Kenya's numbers only sting when you see them next to Vietnam, Ghana, and the SSA average. This site curates that sting.

Bias-Aware

The whole point is to stop pulling figures out of thin air to win arguments. I fail at this daily — but at least now I have a website to fact-check myself.

I bought the domain geliana.com a year ago for my "next big project." That project didn't work out. Until I lose access to this domain due to debts, depression, booze, or an alien invasion, this site will live here.