Nostalgia, technology and other thoughts Today, I listened to my friend David Sasaki talk on his substack about technology and nostalgia. He sent me down a nostalgic path of October 25, 2022 10:38 am No Comments
Thinking about Hewlett Foundation’s Strategy and Decolonising Philanthropy In this blogpost, I decided to be a bit presumptive – to pronounce myself on the idea of decolonising development (and by extension, philanthropy) August 23, 2021 1:24 am 2 Comments
Me on Entrepreneurship As featured on the Talk Africa Podcast I had the good fortune of being featured recently on Entrepreneurs’ Talk Africa podcast, in which I September 23, 2020 7:46 pm No Comments
A new normal is in the offing: are we ready? Originally published in The Standard, March 27, 2020 As the world continues to combat the novel Coronavirus, Covid-19, it is becoming clear that a March 28, 2020 6:00 pm No Comments
Rambling about the fishy Kenyan economy. Should we anticipate a crash? Today, I read a story in the newspapers that Kenyans are consuming poisoned fish, imported from China. Speaking to a friend, I wondered why February 19, 2020 7:49 pm No Comments
The 77%: This is your month About 770 million people in Africa are aged below 35 years old. Thats 77% of Africans who are potentially the generation who are responsible August 1, 2019 12:12 am No Comments
Dear Oprah, Please run for POTUS Oprah Winfrey is the one Dem that can unify them all I am an ardent follower of US politics and current affairs because I June 26, 2019 8:26 am No Comments
Citizen Generated Data vs. Official Statistics Should Citizen Generated Data be official? If not, does it make it any less essential? There is a tension that has existed in the May 8, 2019 10:53 pm No Comments
Last year, I attended the very successful Africa Open Data Conference and there I said some things that I was later told are unpopular August 26, 2016 5:16 pm One Comment
7 Jobs that will soon be extinct – and 1 industry that has radically changed. There was a time when to make a phone call, you needed to find your way to a building (home, office etc) to find February 1, 2015 9:51 pm 4 Comments