Eric Achola is the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Telkom Kenya, one of Kenya’s Telcos. He has been working with Telkom Kenya for approximately 3 years. I met him today to discuss what I thought would be a podcast conversation around several new offerings from Telkom Kenya like the Changa…

This is an interview that I had yesterday afternoon with Addis Alemayehou, the founder and chairman of Ethiopia’s Kazana Group. The Kazana Group currently has a portfolio of over 13 companies operating in marketing, communications, advertisement, fintech, telecom, manufacturing, logistics, technologies, investment management, and advisory services. Kazana Group’s mission is…

This is an interview I had yesterday evening in Nairobi with Matt Koidin, VP and General Manager of Pocket at Mozilla as well as Carolyn O’Hara, senior director of content discovery for Pocket at Mozilla. Matt was a member of the founding team of Pocket, joining in 2011 as CTO…

TECNO Mobile, the behemoth Chinese mobile phone brand with a massive uptake in Africa is planning to launch its mobile wallet offering in Kenya and Nigeria this month. …

Before I get started, I have a confession to make. It’s been a number of years since I last did a smartphone review so I am a little rusty in this respect. …

VISA is a well-known global financial services brand that we encounter on a regular basis as we use our credit cards and debit cards, online and offline. …

The Co-operative Bank of Kenya, also known fondly as ‘Co-op Bank’ is one of Kenya’s largest banks. Thanks to their early forays in agency and digital banking, Co-op Bank has around 8 million customers making them easily one of the big boys of banking in Kenya, right up there with…

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) launched the ‘Next Innovation with Japan’ (NINJA) Business Plan Competition in Kenya in response to COVID-19 in July 2020. The NINJA project aimed to support the growth of start-ups with innovative business models and technologies that respond to changes in social structure and economic…

Crown Motors Group yesterday launched the latest iteration of the Nissan Navara pick-up in Kenya. The latest Navara lin-up builds on the success of its predecessors with enhanced safety, comfort and driving capabilities with the same levels of the durability, reliability and versatility that customers have become accustomed to. The…