world view - Al Kags — Strategist, Social Entrepreneur, Writer

July 10, 2016

#OdeToYouth Lesson 15: Start saving today! Seriously, you’ll thank me later.

Wandia Gichuru, Managing Director, Vivo Activewear By Wandia Gichuru / Adapted from her Nation Interview with Thomas Rajula (June 30, 2015) I was 21 when I graduated from university, so I spent most of my 20s working. My first real job was in Montreal, Canada. More than ...

July 4, 2016

#OdeToYouth Lesson 14: Be Present in your life today, don’t let go of your youth too fast

In the course of my journey, in which I reflect on my adult life, these past 18 years or so, I open up my blog to my friends, who also share their #OdeToYouth. Today, my friend Lilian Okado, reminds us to be present. By Lilian Okado The ...

July 2, 2016

#OdeToYouth Lesson 13: Take time to do something – while you have it

It has been a while since I last posted something on this series that I started months ago. The delay is a combination of things - the difficulty of managing an ever demanding schedule of two leadership jobs, of learning, of taking responsibility for family and ...

May 22, 2016

#OdeToYouth Special: Why I choose to boycott University of Nairobi graduates

Last week, I posted a notice on my Facebook page, stating that in the companies and organisations that I have influence in, we shall be biased against employing graduates of the University of Nairobi. I noted that I am establishing such bias against them because it is ...

April 27, 2016

Life Story & Inspiration: Lorna Kui Irungu

Last time I was in Chi Town was 19 years ago. It was a defining moment in my life. I arrived here to visit family and friends and research on Lupus as I had just been diagnosed and my friend who had passed away had ...

March 16, 2016

Mourning tourism – especially in my hometown Malindi

Lately, my mind has been pre-occupied with tourism in Kenya and its very worrying trends. Much of my childhood was spent in Malindi at the coast of Kenya. My family's primary occupation was tourism but everyone in Malindi depends on tourism - from the hotel ...

March 16, 2016

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#OdeToYouth Lesson 15: Start saving today! Seriously, you’ll thank me later.

#OdeToYouth Lesson 14: Be Present in your life today, don’t let go of your youth too fast

#OdeToYouth Lesson 13: Take time to do something – while you have it

#OdeToYouth Special: Why I choose to boycott University of Nairobi graduates

Life Story & Inspiration: Lorna Kui Irungu

Mourning tourism – especially in my hometown Malindi

Lesson 10: Goals are guidelines not laws written on tablet

#OdeToYouth: Lesson 7 – Have a healthy respect for booze, it has the power to ruin you

OdeToYouth Lesson 6: Run your own race, Keep you eyes on your ball

#OdeToYouth Lesson 5: Forgive your parents and yourself

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