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Why the US Wants to Review its Relations with Kenya
What Kenya Can Learn from Switzerland’s Thriving Innovation Economy
Kenya’s journey toward becoming an innovation-driven economy remains riddled with structural challenges. While global economies are steadily progressing from factor-driven to efficiency-driven- and ultimately to innovation-driven stages, Kenya remains largely [...]
Zanzibar, Bali, and the Real Test of Tourism: Who Owns the Upside?
How one island built a global tourism brand and why Africa must go further by building inclusive prosperity. Bali and Zanzibar are two of the most naturally and culturally gifted [...]
A Taste of Ambition as South African Winemakers Seduce Nairobi's Middle Class
It is undeniable that Nairobi loves to drink. The city lifts its glasses with the zeal of a place forever toasting something. Birthdays, promotions, resignations, long weekends, and short marriages. [...]Lessons for Kenya from IMF Assessments in Cameroon and Sri Lanka
As Kenya contemplates undergoing a Governance Diagnostic Assessment (GDA) by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the experiences of Sri Lanka and Cameroon offer timely and cautionary lessons. While such an [...]The Best African Investment No One Is Talking About
1.5 billion people need to eat. And they can’t eat software. Startups are shutting down.VCs are retreating. And in the middle of the chaos, one company quietly pulled off 125x [...]
East Africa's Central Banks Turn to Gold as Shield Against Global Economic Shocks
East African central banks are increasingly turning to gold as a strategic component of their foreign exchange (FX) reserves, joining a growing global shift toward buffering against external shocks and [...]Corporate Governance Lessons from Elon Musk’s Unconventional Pay at Tesla
Tesla’s audacious executive compensation plan for Elon Musk has become a modern case study in corporate governance- offering powerful lessons on leadership retention, board accountability, and performance-driven reward structures. At [...]The Early Stages of ESG in Ethiopia's Banking Sector
For Ethiopia's banks and their emerging market peers, now is a critical moment to embrace ESG -not to mimic the West, but to carve a context-specific path that leverages ESG [...]
Seed Funding Was Supposed to Unlock Scale. It Built a Waiting Room Instead
Clogged pipes cannot carry any water, and the seed-to-series funding market is full of what few people are buying, despite the increase in local growth-stage funds. We have an interesting [...]
