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Send this article to Twitter!I want to talk about magicians in this post because they have this amazing capacity to reproduce things out of thin air. Things like…oh…let’s see…bank profits, revenue streams, idea’s, hopes and dreams.
I’ve said before that one of my favorite magicians today is a fellow called James Mwangi. Yes, he the current [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!I was having a discussion sometime back with someone and he said to me that between now (2009) and (2012), the only thing that’s going to be happening withing the government will be massive, massive theft. Nobody knows who’ll be in charge of the country after Kibaki leaves and if you [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!I have a bunch of interview questions lined up with some Kenyan entrepreneurs so while I wait to receive their answers, I want to talk about this question of whether Kenya has become a failed state or not. There’s been a running discussion on this topic at Twitter, but I wanted [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!Today, I want to talk about the growing number of Kenyan oriented internet sites that are increasingly using the web to try and find new customers.
The first site is the new Craiglist/Kenya site, which has all the same standard listings seen on the regular Craigslist site and since posting an item [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!So, I’d sent out a couple of questions to Nick Nesbitt of Kencall asking him about the BPO sector in Kenya and what he thought of it and I finally got a response to some of my questions and decided to post them here for your consumption.
All indications are that as [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!So, investment banks in Kenya were forced to publish their financial results and you can examine those results by clicking on this link, which will open it up as an excel document. Kenyan Investment Banks (Financial Results Summary)(1).
Now, I have no idea whether these results are accurate or not. I’ve said [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!This post is prompted by a piece I read in another Kenyan blog called “Lovelymoney”. In the post, the blog author talks about the plans he and his wife had when they first moved to America and those plans involved getting their education, saving up some money and eventually moving back [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!In the second part of this post, I want to highlight some additional information from the book, which I found interesting and then I’ll conclude with an analysis of what message the book left with me. I’ll continue where I left off…
Barclays Bank London:
When Githongo finally runaway to London, he tried [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!I’ve just finished reading the book “It’s Our Turn To Eat” and I want to talk about it here because I really have nothing else to talk about right now and they were some interesting revelations, which I’d like to highlight below (for those who may not have time to read [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!I am writing this post for myself, but you are free to chime in and read it if you like. I had to write this post for the safety of my own physical health after I just finished watching a video featuring Kalonzo Musyoka. He almost gave me an anneuyrism. He [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!So, I guess everyone’s getting excited about this AGOA conference and I’m just trying to figure out why. In preparation for this post, I went to the AGOA site and tried to read what it was all about, but was forced to stop mid-stream when I realized that my eyes were [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!Someone on Twitter posted this link from the BBC about a couple of young Kenyan entrepreneurs who’ve developed a charger that people can place on their bicycles so that they can continue to use their mobile phones while riding long distances conducting various tasks or businesses.
I’ve talked about “swimming towards the [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!In this second half of the post on Kencall, I want to talk about parts of the case study that I found interesting. Again, a copy of the case study can be found under part 1 and you should read it and also leave your own comments about what you found [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!Kencall Case StudyI seem to have developed an obsession with Kencall and what it is they are trying to do in Kenya. I know why I have this obsession. It is because I have an interest in technology and I’m very interested in seeing how it will play out (commercially) in [...]
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Send this article to Twitter! I want to talk about this ICC case because I’ve been reading about it and because it’s bothering me. I’ve been “tweeting” about it this passed week, but I want to do a longer, more fluid post on this issue.
Now, before I began, I do want to say that a [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!Do you guys listen to Bob Marley? If not, you should. In terms of poetic depth, I think he was more talented than even Shakespeare – that overrated English man who walked around London in pleated skirts, writing sonnets that have never really made sense to me:
To be or not to [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!I was just talking to someone who bought the new Iphone and we were both going through it’s many applications and they are simply amazing. Everything you can do on a computer or a laptop, you can do on the iphone, but it’s even better because all those applications are this [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!I was just reading this great article in the NYT about the changing work force around the world. Everyone who works should read this article because it highlights what is happening to jobs around the world today. A quote from the article follows:
“A new generation of online service marketplaces is giving [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!Folks, I’ve been experiencing visions ever since I read this announcement in the standard: “Kibaki has appointed 40 year old Mugo Kibati as Director General of the Vision Delivery Secretariat.”
At first glance, the appointment sounds like you are reading an announcement from Che Guevarra’s revolutionary poetry: Director Generals, secretariats, from [...]
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I was reading Bill Kerrow’s Op-ed piece in the Nation yesterday and Kerrow is essentially saying what we said here almost one year ago, which is that the bloated government was going eat up the country’s tax revenue’s and leave very little for any meaningful development.
However, as I began to read his piece, I couldn’t help [...]
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** I just joined twitter and you can follow some of these posts here on my link at twitter.com/kenentrepreneur. I’ll primarily be using it to get instantenous viewpoints from different people, especially on topics that I’m interested in like Kenya and entrepreneurship. So, feel free to follow me and/or tweet me.
Now onto the topic at [...]
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I was reading a copy of a magazine that I have emailed to me every month and it contained some interesting business idea’s that might be of interest to people in Kenya or people thinking of moving back to Kenya to work for themselves.
The first idea is this company that has developed a single-use [...]
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I was reading a post on Kenyan Pundit about more and more people deciding to relocate back to “Africa” after having lived in the west for several years (I tried to leave a comment, but for whatever reason, it wasn’t posted, which is unfortunate because I think that post could have [...]
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Over the last 5 years, Equity Bank’s rise has created a sleuth of cinderall stories for many development “experts” who had begun touting it as the super model of banking from many third world countries. The Cinderall stories however, often conveniently fail to mention the background of Equity Bank’s CEO James Mwangi and his [...]
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I was watching this video last night of an artist in Kibera (or was it Mathare?) who is using left over animal bones to create handicrafts and artwork. It’s really a must see video because this guy is using his creativity, innovation and business acumen to create unique products that are also environmentally adaptable.
In [...]
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I want to use this post to talk about the process of wealth accumulation and as I compose this article they are a couple of thoughts running through my mind.
The first thought on this topic was brought about as I read yet another article in the Nation about the blatant corruption in Kenya, which involves [...]
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Has anyone noticed just how much money and power this fellow Njoroge is accumulating lately?
This guy’s name is appearing every. freaking.where.
MD of Kengen
Shareholder in this shadowy company called Transcentury
New chairman of the Nairobi Stock Exchange
When I first saw all the responsibilities that this new oinker has on his plate, I wondered how anyone would have [...]
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You know, sometimes, I want to feel sorry for Uhuru Kenyatta because I think that he’s been thrust into a life which he neither desired nor wanted and because of this, he’s never really prepared himself for the situation he is in today. He spent his youth drinking, womanizing and partying, not reading books on [...]
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This jive artist, Dr. David Owuour is giving me migraines, which should not surprise me because most religious extremists give me thrust pounding headaches.
However, I know what Dr. Oh.Wow is trying to do with all his jive. He’s trying to make some money. Alright, I get it. I’m just disappointed that he’s not being more [...]
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I was reading this story in the Daily Nation about the spate of murders that have been taking place in and around the city. Most victims appeared to have been shot while driving home either late at night or very early in the morning.
So, I was thinking to myself as I read this article, that [...]
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It appears that ever since Safaricom introduced M-pesa, many companies have been trying to get on board with their electronic transfer money business ideas.
BD Africa has one such story on PostaPay, the online money transfer business offered by the Postal Service. From reading the story (which is always a chore for me because they are [...]
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I’ve said here before that the Kenyan economy does not make sense to me. However, I will reverse that statement by saying that it does in fact make sense. It makes sense if I define it not as a capitalistic society, but rather, as a society that has fooled itself into believing that crony capitalism [...]
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I am beginning to read about more and more IT start-up companies in Kenya that are trying to build up data storage sites and other forms of e-storage solutions for private individuals, companies and governments.
So, I was reading about this company in BD Africa called East African Handlers, which is launching a solution that would [...]
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A few readers have left comments here talking about Kenya’s demographic problems, which essentially involve an exploding population that will put pressure on Kenya’s limited resources coupled with a very large segment of the country being under the age of 30.
I myself have mentioned here, time and time again, that the economy in Kenya is [...]
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I was talking to a friend recently who was telling me about Safaricom dealerships and how much money one can make if they got one of those dealer-licenses.
I’m going to try and recount how he said it works, but I may not be totally accurate and you should feel free to fill in the gaps [...]
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There’s a lengthy article in GQ magazine about the pirates in Somalia and as is the case with all these pirate stories, Kenya is always mentioned, both as a base for many of the middle men who are organizing these groups and as a conduit transfer hub for the ransom money.
As as I was [...]
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I was reading this article in BD Africa with special interest because it’s on the advertising industry in Kenya and it’s move towards trying to incorporate technology as a way of measuring the effectiveness of these ad’s. According to the article:
“Consumer market research firm Synovate has launched a new tool that measures the impact and [...]
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What is going on at the NSSF is very bad. A lot of people may not know this, but Nicholas Biwott stole a lot of money from the NSSF when he was in power and by doing that, he essentially left a lot of older people broke.
Now, it appears that these wayward politicians are once [...]
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A documentary on the children of prostitutes growing up in Calcutta’s red light district of Sonagachi.
This is one of the best documentaries I have ever watched.
** you can watch it in a full screen by clicking on the box with the arrows in it.
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There’s an article in BD Africa about a social networking lending site founded by Kenyan, Kim Muhota. The video below is an introductory speech about the company (Pertuity Direct) that can be found on its website. Muhota’s accent is completely Americanized, which I find somewhat strange for someone who supposedly finished high school in Kenya. [...]
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I just came across this site, which I had never heard of before called breakingnewskenya.com. The site had an interesting article, which was posted last year on the sheenanigans at Merali’s company and why it’s short-term MD, Eric Kimani was fired.
Anyway, they were some revealing comments posted on the site and I want to highlight [...]
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I’ve been perusing the articles in BD Africa and I’m beginning to see an interesting phenomenon. Well, maybe it’s a regular phenomenon with all jobs, but is this a unique pattern? What am I talking about?
I am talking about seeing relatively young Kenyans, many of whom have been educated in the west, returning back to [...]
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The president of Liberia has just written an autobiography about her life. The book is called, “This Child Shall be Great”. You can listen to an interview she gives about the book here.
I have not read the book yet, but it is definitely going on my reading list.
I’ve said before, that if you are a [...]
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I said here a year ago that the grand coalition “government” , which I termed the grand coalition illusion was never going to work.
I got a lot of flack for saying it because for some strange reason, people thought that this illusion would actually bring about peace. It hasn’t and it won’t.
I also said that [...]
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I want to talk about Nandan Nilekani again because he has a new book out called “Imagining India” where he talks about how he built the company, Infosys. I’ve ordered the book and I am looking forward to reading it.
There is however, another reason why I wanted to bring up Nilekani and it is because, [...]
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“I was always a good housekeeper. Whenever I divorced I always kept the house”. - Zsa Zsa Gabor
I’ve become fascinated by this train wreck starring Akinyi and her ex-Nigerian husband, Chinedu. This hot mess has all the elements needed for a great soap opera, like:? Lots of money, lots of real estate, drugs, an affair [...]
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I was reading a very interesting blog written by an expat British wife currently living in Kenya. She has a post about the global economic crisis and how it has affected (or not affected) her financial situation in Kenya.
The following is a quote taken from her site about her expenses in Kenya and what she [...]
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There is an interesting piece on 60 minutes, a popular prime time television show on CBS, about Kenya’s lions being poisoned by Maasai herdsmen in the Mara. You can watch the entire clip on-line by clicking on this link.
So, the piece states that the Maasai herdsmen have discovered that an imported pesticide called Furdana, is [...]
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I just thought of one benefit that high speed internet services will bring to Kenyans on both sides of the Atlantic:
Free internet calling using medium’s like Skype.
Right now, if I want to talk to someone in Kenya using Skype, I have to pay a fee on my end. However, if that person in Kenya acquires [...]
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I was breezing through Entrepreneur Magazine and they have a nice post on the ten must-visit entrepreneur websites and I thought it was a pretty good list, so check it out. Remember, information is power. It’s not Peter Pan, pie in the sky stuff .
Awww…..look at little Peter. Flying into the sky with [...]