The Nitpicker

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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July 24, 2023

Black Tax

Decades ago, I did not go to Alliance. I did however attend the University of Nairobi’s law school where I met those very...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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July 24, 2023

Black Tax

Decades ago, I did not go to Alliance. I did however attend the University of Nairobi’s law school where I met those very...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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