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December 2, 2024
Character Development From Farming
Joram (not his real name), my next-door neighbor at my Laikipia County farm, is the primary source of my miseducation in...
November 25, 2024
Founder’s Syndrome in NGOs
A reader recently sent in a governance challenge that she is undergoing and we agreed that I would respond to it in this...
November 18, 2024
To apply or not to apply?
Many years ago, I sat on the board of a state owned entity (SOE) which had been created by an act of parliament. Like most...
October 30, 2024
The Horticultural Bill as a Savior
When a hyena wants to eat its children, it accuses them of smelling like goats, goes an African proverb. At least that’s...
October 14, 2024
The Livestock Bill As A Savior Part 2
The road to hell is paved with good intentions - Saint Bernard, 12th Century Abbot of Clairvaux,...
October 7, 2024
The Livestock Bill As A Savior Part 1
In early August this year, a senior official at the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development waxed...
September 23, 2024
Travails Of A Novice Farmer Part 2
Last week, I shared a few insights about the PhD thesis I was paying for at the University of side hustle life. Based on the...
September 16, 2024
Travails of A Novice Farmer
Like many other Kenyans, I do a little bit of sheep and goat farming somewhere deep in the bowels of Laikipia County. That...
April 15, 2024
When Things are Elephant!
Last Friday, with three other friends, we set off on a drive through the Aberdare National Park, entering its south-western...
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...
December 2, 2024
Character Development From Farming
Joram (not his real name), my next-door neighbor at my Laikipia County farm, is the primary source of my miseducation in...
October 30, 2024
The Horticultural Bill as a Savior
When a hyena wants to eat its children, it accuses them of smelling like goats, goes an African proverb. At least that’s...
October 14, 2024
The Livestock Bill As A Savior Part 2
The road to hell is paved with good intentions - Saint Bernard, 12th Century Abbot of Clairvaux,...
October 7, 2024
The Livestock Bill As A Savior Part 1
In early August this year, a senior official at the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development waxed...
September 23, 2024
Travails Of A Novice Farmer Part 2
Last week, I shared a few insights about the PhD thesis I was paying for at the University of side hustle life. Based on the...
September 16, 2024
Travails of A Novice Farmer
Like many other Kenyans, I do a little bit of sheep and goat farming somewhere deep in the bowels of Laikipia County. That...
July 26, 2024
Communicating With Impact _ August 2024 Edition _ Come Learn With Us!
If you get tired of confused looks when you finish your presentation, we can help with that. Communicating With...
July 15, 2024
Collective Hiring and Collective Firing
When I was in high school, a national school for girls, the late President Moi came to visit. As was the norm in those days,...
September 16, 2024
Travails of A Novice Farmer
Like many other Kenyans, I do a little bit of sheep and goat farming somewhere deep in the bowels of Laikipia County. That...
July 26, 2024
Communicating With Impact _ August 2024 Edition _ Come Learn With Us!
If you get tired of confused looks when you finish your presentation, we can help with that. Communicating With...
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...