Abraham Ongenge: A banker who became the man people trust

Nairobi, July 2 -- Abraham Ongenge's father had a habit of saying, when something needed to get done and done properly: let Abraham do it. He said it about chores. He said it about responsibility. He ... Read More

A banker who became the man people trust

Nairobi, July 2 -- Abraham Ongenge's father had a habit of saying, when something needed to get done and done properly: let Abraham do it. He said it about chores. He said it about responsibility. He ... Read More

The man who turned a Sh45,000 loan into multi-generational oil company

Nairobi, June 25 -- Engineers, at least real engineers, build things that are meant to outlast them. Roads, bridges, structures, things that carry other people's weight. Peter Njeru Njagi has spent hi... Read More

At Ciel Lounge, Nairobi's cool children gather under one roof

Nairobi, June 25 -- I've never been one to sit in the VIP section of anything. It draws too much attention to one. People gawk. So it felt oddly surreal to find myself seated in the VIP booth at Ciel ... Read More

Motor Sports Club - where Saturday gatherings were reshaped by time and loss

Nairobi, June 18 -- We used to book a banda every Saturday afternoon. It was always sunny. I don't know if the weather actually cooperated every weekend or if nostalgia has edited out the clouds. The... Read More

The one question driving KCB Foundation's boss Mendi Njonjo

Nairobi, June 18 -- Who cares about legacy? Legacy, Mendi Njonjo suspects, is one of humanity's more flattering delusions - a hubristic little belief that we will be remembered, that history keeps car... Read More

The Local Grill: Where Nairobians go to eat beef without guilt

Nairobi, June 11 -- The cows bred for steak here are treated like royalty. They are fed well. They are kept comfortable. Nobody shouts at them. No loud rock music. No banging doors. No unnecessary st... Read More

Carol Koech: 'You could do everything right and still earn nothing'

Nairobi, June 11 -- Maybe you have wondered if you will ever meet someone from Olenguruone, way out on the edge of the Mau Forest. Maybe you haven't. Maybe you know it only as the name of a road conne... Read More

A night in Stockholm's underground drinking dens

Nairobi, June 4 -- A few weeks ago in Stockholm's Gamla Stan, we had drinks in a cave bar. Dusk had fallen, and we were walking from Stortorget, the old square where the Nobel Prize Museum sits today... Read More

Wakiuru Njuguna tears up the script after years of sticking to the plan

Nairobi, June 4 -- Wakiuru Njuguna comes down to the terrace restaurant of the Hyatt Regency Hotel. She is smaller than you remember her. Lighter, literally, and, as you will learn shortly, figurative... Read More

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