Mashada Blogs » Kenyanentrepreneur.com

Welcome to Mashada Blogs! Read all your favourite blogs in one place.

« Expand/Collapse

Kenyanentrepreneur.com

May 29, 2008
10:06
Sam Kivuitu: Hell No, I won’t Go!
From: Kenyanentrepreneur.com

Tags: Kenyan PoliticsBusiness

Read This Entry & More At Kenyanentrepreneur.com
Every time Samuel “Jesus help me” Kivuitu opens his mouth, I burst out laughing. I’m sorry, I can’t help it. I don’t know how I forgot to add him to my “funny man’s” list. This poor man was caught between a rock and a hard place. On one side was Michuki threatening him with GSU guards [...]
May 27, 2008
7:39
Orengo’s Land Policy
From: Kenyanentrepreneur.com

Tags: Kenyan PoliticsBusiness

Read This Entry & More At Kenyanentrepreneur.com
I don’t understand why people are giving James Orengo a hard time about this new land policy that he is trying to enact. I think it actually has a basis in law and it relates to this concept called “adverse posssession”, which essentially states that the state or even private individuals, do have the right [...]
May 26, 2008
18:49
Google East Africa: Philanthropy or Profit?
From: Kenyanentrepreneur.com

Tags: african BusinessPolitics

Read This Entry & More At Kenyanentrepreneur.com
Did anyone catch this story in the Nation about Google East Africa signing a deal with a marketing agency called Wunderman Kenya? I’m reading this story and wondering why on earth this company had to sign a deal with google if all they wanted to do was start advertising online. I mean, all you have to [...]
May 22, 2008
20:32
The Grand Illusion & The Death of Democracy
From: Kenyanentrepreneur.com

Tags: Kenyan PoliticsBusiness

Read This Entry & More At Kenyanentrepreneur.com
“A ruling political party cannot also be in the opposition. You are either in Government or out of Government. The role of the backbench is to check the front bench,’’ said Raila in an interview with KTN. Raila Odinga is truly an amazing specimen. I wonder if he felt the same way when he was [...]
May 20, 2008
17:49
Dyer & Despair: No Dinero’s in my Sombrero’s
From: Kenyanentrepreneur.com

Tags: Kenyan PoliticsBusiness

Read This Entry & More At Kenyanentrepreneur.com
I must say, BDAfrica is becoming one of my favorite reads (who edits that newspaper? they deserve a big clap for doing a good job with their reporting). So, they have another interesting story about this guy called John Kiarie who is suing Dyer & Blair, claiming that they did not give him a return on [...]
May 18, 2008
18:47
Africa’s Backwardness Lies in it’s Culture
From: Kenyanentrepreneur.com

Tags: the Global Economy

Read This Entry & More At Kenyanentrepreneur.com
I was reading an interesting story today in the NYT about Japanese fears that it is no longer churning out enough engineers and this will become a problem if it hopes to remain an advanced nation. Apparently, young Japanese who’ve grown up in a wealthy country, no longer feel the need to go into engineering, [...]
May 15, 2008
18:58
The Rise & Fall of Patrick Gakiavih
From: Kenyanentrepreneur.com

Tags: Kenyan PoliticsBusiness

Read This Entry & More At Kenyanentrepreneur.com
I’m becoming increasingly curious about this guy Patrick Gakiavih, the owner/founder of Nyagan’ya Nyagah Stock-”biters”. The Nation has an interesting story about where he ”invested” all that stolen money: He loves his hometown of Embu because he bought a lot of land there. According to the Nation article, he stole a total of about Ksh. 885 million or the [...]
11:58
My Response To Aidan Hartley on the Bloated Cabinet
From: Kenyanentrepreneur.com

Tags: Kenyan PoliticsBusiness

Read This Entry & More At Kenyanentrepreneur.com
Someone just emailed me this article that appeared in the British Magazine, the Spectator. The article is written by a Kenyan based journalist name Aidan Hartley. The article begins like this: ” I want to say Kenya is a victim of negative press. Shady characters called bloggers are nicknaming the President’s new Peace cabinet of ministers [...]
May 13, 2008
19:28
Will-Kill Router Now Wants to Feed Kenyans
From: Kenyanentrepreneur.com

Tags: Kenyan PoliticsBusiness

Read This Entry & More At Kenyanentrepreneur.com
This is an interview that Will-Kill Router gave on Kenya’s looming food crisis. He seems to have some of his facts memorized (x amount of maize was planted, x amounted is needed, etc, etc) - but at the end of the day, Africa’s inability to achieve food security is mainly due to it’s inability to [...]
7:16
The Grand Illusion
From: Kenyanentrepreneur.com

Tags: Kenyan PoliticsBusiness

Read This Entry & More At Kenyanentrepreneur.com
The Nation and the Standard finally have similar stories on the procession of this grand coalition illusion. From what I read, they’re basically going to try and get along and blah, blah, blah….. The roles however, about who is number one or number two (is it Kibaki or Raila?) are still left undefined. And you [...]
May 10, 2008
21:15
The Book Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
From: Kenyanentrepreneur.com

Tags: Somalia

Read This Entry & More At Kenyanentrepreneur.com
I’ve had Hirsi’s book Infidel on my list of things to read and I finally got started with it yesterday. I didn’t think I’d enjoy it, but once I started reading it, I couldn’t put it down. Ali is a very good writer and she has a very compelling personal story. I haven’t finished reading [...]
May 08, 2008
18:03
Access Kenya: Who Are These Guys?
From: Kenyanentrepreneur.com

Tags: Kenyan PoliticsBusiness

Read This Entry & More At Kenyanentrepreneur.com
I’m intrigued by this publicly listed company mainly because of it’s owners/founders. I read somewhere that the Somen’s are Israeli Jews and their father immigrated to Kenya in the 1960’s or 1970’s (he apparently owns the Fairview Hotel). Anyway, his sons are now running this company called (Access Kenya). I looked at their website and it [...]
May 06, 2008
18:48
The Funny Men
From: Kenyanentrepreneur.com

Tags: Kenyan PoliticsBusiness

Read This Entry & More At Kenyanentrepreneur.com
I am in the process of compiling a list of funny men (public figures who, when they open their mouths, leave me in stitches). So far, the following individuals have made my list: Kalembe Ndile Kamlesh Pattni Otieno Kajwaaaaaaang And now, I’m going to have to add the one and only, Francis Atwoli (this man may actually walk away [...]
May 05, 2008
12:34
The Rapid (and/or unexplainable)Rise of Equity Bank
From: Kenyanentrepreneur.com

Tags: Kenyan PoliticsBusiness

Read This Entry & More At Kenyanentrepreneur.com
I was having a short, but interesting conversation with someone late last night and the topic of Equity Banks’ rapid rise to the top came up (apparently, it now holds 41% of all bank accounts in the country). Anyway, during this short conversation, this guy told me that he attended a speech given by Equity’s MD at the Harvard [...]