nairobi - Al Kags — Strategist, Social Entrepreneur, Writer

April 15, 2018

Loneliness at the top is a real thing – CEOs and Leaders struggle in deathly silence.

Recently, I saw a Facebook post by Nairobi Governor, Mike Sonko and I sympathised with him. I generally have not had very high thoughts of Mr. Sonko and I have written about my varying views of him here and here and here before. But seeing ...

December 3, 2016

Driving from Nairobi to Nakuru (150km) can take 5 hours. Here’s how.

It has taken me 5 hours to travel from Nairobi to Nakuru - a distance of 150km. According to google maps, observing all traffic rules, I should be there in 2 hours and 42 minutes. On other days that I have taken this route it ...

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, ...

December 22, 2013

My 2013 challenge: find all matatu routes in Nairobi

So I have set myself a challenge before the end of this year. I would like to document all matatu routes in the greater Nairobi over the next few days - before Dec 31, 2013. Please help me achieve this. Just fill this form with ...

October 20, 2013

Kenya Airways: Perfecting the cattle class feel

My latest trip to Seoul, Korea was an enchanting one, filled with some very new experiences for me and I will write about those separately. On this post, I wanted to take the time to catalogue my flight experience which was remarkable in itself. I ...

January 27, 2013

This man Sonko… a new kind of leader?

This man Sonko. That he has had three blog posts on this blog, (this being the third after this one and this one), must say that he is making an impact - especially if you examine the changing tone of the posts. I mentioned in ...

October 2, 2007

Nairobi is on 24 hours, thanks to Nakumatt

I can now officially confirm that Nairobi is well on its way to being a 24 hour city - Nakumatt by Nakumatt. it started a few months back when Kenya's leading department store, or hypermarket as we call them here, made the small Nakumatt Ukay ...

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