Nairobi, Nov. 15 -- I woke up last Tuesday to a message from my farm manager that no livestock telephone farmer worth their Bata gumboots ever wants to receive: "Mwai is not performing. All the ewes h... Read More
Nairobi, Nov. 8 -- Power that has nowhere to go does not disappear, it just waits. Let me give you a few cases. I recently met a senior Nigerian Finance ministry official at a workshop who told me ab... Read More
Nairobi, Nov. 2 -- Some 30,700 people registered for last month's StanChart Nairobi Marathon, and by last Monday morning every one of them seemed to be living inside my phone. Medals draped over necks... Read More
Nairobi, Oct. 18 -- I visited Kigali last week after a four-year hiatus. Even then, Rwandan citizens didn't queue at an immigration line at the arrivals hall at the airport. Absolutely never. Rwandan ... Read More
Nairobi, Oct. 11 -- Having covered the unfolding Tata Sons boardroom saga over the last two weeks on this column, today let's unpack the listing question itself: why the regulator wants it, and how th... Read More
Nairobi, Oct. 5 -- Last week, I wrote about the unfolding Tata Sons boardroom fight in Mumbai, India that is turning out to be a classic case study of how trusts are used to govern family businesses. ... Read More
Nairobi, Sept. 27 -- Late last year, I wrote about the Tata Trusts in India as a model of family ownership with a purpose: two charitable trusts, which, together with other smaller trusts and family-r... Read More
Nairobi, Sept. 20 -- In 1879, the Cadbury brothers, George and Richard, decided that the industrial smog of central Birmingham was simply no place to craft fine cocoa. Being devout Quakers with a deep... Read More
Nairobi, Sept. 13 -- In case you're new to this column, let me warn you: I don't do polite. I nitpick, I rant, and I gnash my teeth about the absurdities of corporate governance, farming in Laikipia, ... Read More
Nairobi, Sept. 6 -- In case you're new to this column, when I'm not nitpicking about corporate governance, I wail and gnash my teeth over my sheep farm. As I have written here many times before: if yo... Read More