March 20, 2024
Parasites at the Harvest
Farmer class. That’s a term a friend of mine likes to use to distinguish between those born with a smog lined, city...
March 5, 2024
Managing Key Man Risk
Last year, I had an interesting chat with the CEO of a large bank in Tanzania about the role of the bank in helping...
February 27, 2024
Stay In Your Lane
If you have ever been on the Nairobi Expressway you will understand what I mean when I say it is equal parts amazing and...
February 13, 2024
56 Billion Reasons to Show Independence Part 2
Last week I commented on the eye-watering compensation package that the board of electronic vehicle (EV) manufacturing...
February 5, 2024
56 Billion Reasons to Show Independence
Someone recently shared with me a breaking story coming out of the company incorporation heaven of Delaware in the United...
January 30, 2024
Independent Directors under Attack
2024 has started with a governance bang! This is led by the change in governance rules gazetted by the Capital Markets...
November 13, 2023
Ecobank Provides Corporate Governance Lessons Part 3
Over the last two weeks I have recalled the interesting corporate governance past of Togo based Ecobank Transnational...
November 6, 2023
Ecobank Provides Vital Governance Lessons Part 2
Last week, I rehashed a story that had largely been reported by Reuters, the Financial Times and Bloomberg relating to a...
October 16, 2023
To Tip Or Not To Tip
A tip is defined as a bonus, a little extra, a bit extra, a present, a gift, a reward or an inducement. About 25...
October 9, 2023
Government Response to Protecting Our Diaspora
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how Indians have been diaspora workers since the 19th century and it was only a century...
July 30, 2023
The Danger of a Single Nigerian Story
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a critically acclaimed Nigerian author who gave a stirring TED talk titled “The Danger of a...
July 17, 2023
Sights and Sounds of Kinshasa
I recently visited Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for the first time and came back with a deeply...
May 22, 2023
Networking With Purpose
Several engineer professors got on a plane to go to a conference. The pilot came back to tell them their students are the...
February 5, 2023
Sights and Sounds of Chennai Again
I recently went on a visit to Chennai, in India’s south eastern coastal state of Tamil Nadu. This is a city I have...
October 24, 2022
Guiding The Entrepreneur To The Top of the Mountain
So an unintended but good outcome of the Covid 19 downtime was that I joined up with a group of like-minded suckers for pain...
October 4, 2021
Local Retail Giants Give Us Pride
My first trip to Lagos, Nigeria was in 2014, an experience that will forever be etched in my mind as a journey of...
March 20, 2024
Parasites at the Harvest
Farmer class. That’s a term a friend of mine likes to use to distinguish between those born with a smog lined, city...
February 27, 2024
Stay In Your Lane
If you have ever been on the Nairobi Expressway you will understand what I mean when I say it is equal parts amazing and...
October 23, 2023
Business and Economy Class Shareholding
There is what the hard working Kenya Power technicians fix on the ground. Then there is what the hard working Kenya Power...
September 5, 2023
The Board Director’s Remuneration Question
On a bright, sunny afternoon last week, out of sheer boredom and need for intellectual stimulation of the statutory kind, I...
August 16, 2023
Founders Legacy
A few months ago a friend of mine sadly lost her father after a brief illness. The father had been a member of one of the...
July 30, 2023
The Danger of a Single Nigerian Story
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a critically acclaimed Nigerian author who gave a stirring TED talk titled “The Danger of a...
July 17, 2023
Sights and Sounds of Kinshasa
I recently visited Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for the first time and came back with a deeply...
March 20, 2024
Parasites at the Harvest
Farmer class. That’s a term a friend of mine likes to use to distinguish between those born with a smog lined, city...
October 16, 2023
To Tip Or Not To Tip
A tip is defined as a bonus, a little extra, a bit extra, a present, a gift, a reward or an inducement. About 25...
October 9, 2023
Government Response to Protecting Our Diaspora
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how Indians have been diaspora workers since the 19th century and it was only a century...
September 18, 2023
I have a boda boda guy
I was recently in Kampala on a training assignment and one of the participants had left one of her devices at home. As many...
June 26, 2023
The Contrarian Thinker
In October 2016, I wrote an article recalling the 2013 apocalyptic movie World War Z, which is not a movie for the faint...
April 24, 2023
Governance At Your Doorstep Part 2
Last week, I wrote about the role of resident associations in our lives. The vast majority of urban dwellers today live in a...
April 10, 2023
The Bethlehem Businessman
In this Easter period of reflection, it struck me for how long human beings have been running governments and doing...