- Last week, new global data has confirmed something many of us in Kenya’s digital ecosystem have known for a while: Kenya is not just using AI — it is…
- Earlier today I attended the Connected Africa Summit in Nairobi and one of the highlights for me was moderating a panel on AI that went really well.…
- The WPP Scangroup FY2025 financial results press release arrived in my email inbox yesterday — a loss of KES 714 million against KES 507 million the…
- For the better part of two decades, whether we liked it or not, and for the majority of Kenyan consumers and businesses, the default mode for making…
- I was not supposed to be at the HONOR Kenya Channel Summit last week. I had no prior knowledge of it, no invitation, no briefing deck in my inbox. I…
- Timing in the brutally competitive telecommunications sector in Kenya and globally is rarely accidental as market shares can rise and fall sharply on…
- Today, two weeks after launching My OneApp to considerable fanfare at the Decode 4.0 developer summit, Safaricom has issued a formal public apology.…
- The creative team behind GA Insurance’s marketing campaigns has gone full Hollywood with “Honey, I Sued the Company” — a clever, unmistakable riff on…
- Stuck in traffic on Ngong Road a couple of days ago, I got a 2-for-1 ‘billboard surfing’ session that turned into a marketing insights opportunity —…
- There is a certain irony in the fact that it took Safaricom’s own My OneApp (OneApp) launch to finally push me into using Airtel Money seriously. For…
- There is a category of business story that never quite gets the attention it deserves. Not the flashy consumer app with the slick onboarding, not the…
- A few weeks ago, I wrote about what looked like the inevitable end of Showmax. At the time, the signals were clear: It felt like the beginning of the…
- When you stare at a number like KES 100 billion, it is easy to forget that behind it are real people, real livelihoods, and real decisions made every…
- Let me start with a number that should stop every policymaker, development economist, and digital finance practitioner in the region in their tracks…
- There is a specific kind of conviction that precedes building something from nothing. Not optimism — conviction. The belief that you are supposed to…
- When Dharmendra Jain talks about spending day and night processing data for India’s massive Indian Leadership Survey — reaching 240,000 people — he’s…
- Hon. William Kabogo Gitau and Renate Nikolay, Deputy Director-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology at the European Commission’…
- The end of the Aga Khan era at Nation Media Group did not begin with a newsroom scandal or a sudden collapse. It arrived like most corporate endings…
- The Last Big Print Bet Today, the 10th of March 2026, it was reported that Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development S.A. had agreed to sell its entire…
- An affordable aluminum MacBook running an iPhone‑class A18 Pro chip sounds like a gimmick. In reality, MacBook Neo could be the machine that finally…
- A few days ago, on 26 February 2026, Nairobi hosted The Secure Horizon executive breakfast at Radisson Blu, where Smartcomply and TechCabal launched…
- If you watched Sankalp Africa Summit 2025 from the sidelines, you probably felt it: the posts, the photos, the deal announcements, the sheer density…
- Last month, I wrote a blog post titled ‘content now finds us on social media and this changes everything’. The underlying thesis of the same is that…
- Over the last few years, I’ve watched Africa’s investment landscape go through wild swings. Capital flooded in during the boom years, cooled sharply…
