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Me and My Super-Competitive Youngest: Dead-beat, cheap-as-the-day-is-long, time-wasting customers you’d rather not have in your Sports Shop

Mike Tyson used to say everybody has a strategy. That is, until you are punched in the mouth.This quip holds true in the boxing ring as it does in the realm of business. And as if punches were not destabilizing… Continue Reading →

Yeah. As a man thinketh, so is he. Selah. #ArtcaffeMornings

Martin Luther, a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation (the other was John Calvin) had a tongue-in-cheek, not-very-endearing nickname for God: Deus Absconditus – The God who goes missing! Feels a lot like that lately, doesn’t it? In times like… Continue Reading →

Heartwarming shots from Naivasha, in the heart of Kenya’s Rift Valley. The World Safari Rally Championship was broadcast to an 848 million global audience and garnered more than 1.5 billion unpaid online impressions for Kenya. Not terribly shabby for the… Continue Reading →

D-DAY: June 6th, 1944 is a key date in military history. That day marked the beginning of the end of the Second World War. In the largest seaborne invasion in history, the Allied Forces landed on the beaches of Normandy… Continue Reading →

IT IS ANOTHER GOOD DAY TO BE ALIVE, bless God on high! To seize the day, me and my Nairobi colleague were out the door at the crack of dawn. He needed to see Kampala. And Kampala I showed him… Continue Reading →

You have heard of the Black Tax. But have you heard about the DYSFUNCTION TAX?If you do business in Africa at this point, you are unwittingly paying it big-time! On account of our lopsided, unreliable infrastructure and systems, the cost… Continue Reading →

UGANDA’s BURGEONING YOUNG POPULATION: Boom or Ticking Time-Bomb? With almost 60 percent of its population under the age of 25, Africa is the world’s youngest continent. So it was not entirely surprising to read the latest numbers from the Uganda… Continue Reading →

Today is #InternationalJazzDay. Jazz was popularized at New Orlean’s Congo Square where enslaved Africans used to gather on Sundays – their day off. But Jazz is very African; it originated from the Darfur region of Sudan and has now evolved… Continue Reading →