Clar Chonghaile
Clar Ni Chonghaile is a freelance journalist living in Nairobi, Kenya. She mainly writes for the Guardian but her work has also appeared in The Africa Report, Think Africa Press, Inside Story, and on MarketWatch. Since starting as a journalist at Reuters in 1992, Clar has worked in Paris, Madrid, London, Abidjan and Dakar, mainly for Reuters and the Associated Press.
Tapping into local knowledge

Tapping into local knowledge

  Governments need to see informal business people as economic actors who are rational and have good ideas In Kenya, they are known as jua kali workers – those who labour under the fierce sun. These are the men and women whose hawking, fixing, selling or general...

Clar Chonghaile
Clar Ni Chonghaile is a freelance journalist living in Nairobi, Kenya. She mainly writes for the Guardian but her work has also appeared in The Africa Report, Think Africa Press, Inside Story, and on MarketWatch. Since starting as a journalist at Reuters in 1992, Clar has worked in Paris, Madrid, London, Abidjan and Dakar, mainly for Reuters and the Associated Press.
Tapping into local knowledge

Tapping into local knowledge

  Governments need to see informal business people as economic actors who are rational and have good ideas In Kenya, they are known as jua kali workers – those who labour under the fierce sun. These are the men and women whose hawking, fixing, selling or general...