Kenyan households are confronting yet another season of rising prices. The cost-of-living crisis experienced in recent months continues to burden families whose budgets were already stretched thin.
Indeed, even when headline inflation softens slightly, at its current 4.6 percent, the everyday reality in supermarkets and kiosks tells a different story. A modest fall in the price of maize flour, for instance, is rarely enough to counter sharp rises in vegetables, electricity and transport.
