Africa - Al Kags — Strategist, Social Entrepreneur, Writer

November 4, 2015

#OdeToYouth – Lesson 3: (Guest blogger) – No success without Sacrifice.

My friend, who writes the #PassionatelyKenyan blog is also an ex-youth like me - she is my age. She is a C-level executive for a large government organisation and I can tell you for sure, she has come a looong way. Here's her unedited story. I am at ...

November 1, 2015

#OdeToYouth: Lesson 2 – Learn how to sweep a floor

My last day of high school was a Thursday. My mother, one of several accomplished hoteliers and caterers in our family, had arranged that I would start apprenticeship at the Tropical African Dream Hotel in Malindi. Apprentices at the hotel were essentially being given practical ...

October 30, 2015

#OdetoYouth: Lesson 1 – Learn hard, Make a brave choice

I left Malindi, where I grew up for a major part of my life on January 6th 2000. I knew that moving to the great big city - at a time that my parents had different ideas of what I should do after high school, ...

October 25, 2015

How many ICU Beds do we have in Kenya?

Over the last couple days, (well, mostly yesterday) I took up the effort of trying to find out just how many ICU Beds we have in Kenya. The findings so far were discouraging: Kenyatta National Hospital (top referral hospital in East Africa) ...

July 10, 2015

A grand old man passes away, leaving life-long lessons behind.

When I met Mungai Gatoro in 2009, I was awed by his simple eloquence - regardless of what language he was speaking. He spoke Gikuyu, Kimeru, Kiembu, Kiswahili, English and French flawlessly. It was interesting to watch him outside his homestead speaking with different people in ...

April 8, 2015

Proposals to build on: How about we crowd-implement mega public projects?

In my blogpost from two days ago, I made some proposals for a concerted effort to make the northern frontier of Kenya more secure - from Lokichoggio and Sibiloi in the Northwest to Pokot and Marsabit slightly further south to Garissa, Wajir and Mandera. A ...

April 6, 2015

Garissa #147. Proposals to build on.

147 people lost their lives in Garissa two days ago. I do not feel capable of speaking to that incredible loss. What is there to say, I could reiterate like Boniface Mwangi that Corruption killed them. I could pontificate about the culpability of the government, ...

February 25, 2015

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#OdeToYouth – Lesson 3: (Guest blogger) – No success without Sacrifice.

#OdeToYouth: Lesson 2 – Learn how to sweep a floor

#OdetoYouth: Lesson 1 – Learn hard, Make a brave choice

How many ICU Beds do we have in Kenya?

A grand old man passes away, leaving life-long lessons behind.

Proposals to build on: How about we crowd-implement mega public projects?

Garissa #147. Proposals to build on.

Larry Madowo on Digital Migration (Oops!) – a hoi polloi response.

When the public trusts the police, the war against crime will be won.

Rare kudos to government, and a warning: don’t mess this up

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