Kevin Mutiso

Chairman of DFSAK &
Co-founder & CEO OYE

#PanAfrican #GenerationHope #7thGenerationPrinciple

[Kevin Mutiso @KevinMutiso]

"Often, when I see what the boda boda have done to our traffic, I feel as though we are back to the age when humans walked on all fours before we evolved into modern Homo Sapiens," is what @makaumutua thinks of boda boda drivers.

He goes on to recommend that we ban all 2.5 million boda drivers.

WOW! If you think the economy is bad now, take one billion shillings a day out of 2.5 million drivers' incomes and see what will be worse for you.

This is precisely why we started @oyeapp_ke. The unique insight we had was that there was a mismatch between the perception of the boda and its reality.

A few simple fixes would solve and empower the boda.

When was the last time you heard of an accident involving a boda ending in a violent outcome? Did you know that various stakeholders have worked extremely hard to reduce those incidents?

Look around you, for every 10 bikers, more than half now wear helmets, and at least 7 out of 10 wear a reflective jacket.

Oye alone has distributed over 5000.

If you are keen, you have probably seen our trademark orange reflector jackets and helmets.

The National Helmet Coalition, led by @ntsa_kenya, has distributed tens of thousands of helmets.

Stephen Kimakon, who consumes over 1,000 litres of fuel per month, recently won a brand-new TVS 125 CC (a magnificent machine) from our partners at @CarAndGeneralGroup.

He plays a very critical role in his society by providing logistics solutions for smallholder farmers in the Kiserian area. His entrepreneurial prowess allows him to provide for his wife and children.

#TheFutureIsHere #BodaDrivers #Entreprenuers #FinancialInclusion #FinancialHealth #Fintech #DigitalFinancialServices

[FIA @fia]

Kimi Antonelli is your 2026 FIA Formula One World Champion 👏

#FIA #F1

[Eric Asuma @ericasuma]

I started Hisa in 2020 as a way to help me and my friends invest in the stock market. Proud to see what the Company has become

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

It is with profound sadness that we announce the death of Life President Ken Friar OBE.

Since our formation in 1886, there have been many inspirational individuals who have driven our club forward, but no one has had an influence on Arsenal Football Club quite like ‘Mr Friar’ and he leaves an extraordinary life of service to the club as his legacy. One that will surely never be matched.

Rest in peace ❤️

[Jason Dodier @J_Dodier]

I left Rhode Island to learn. I never left to leave.

Dubai. Paris. Washington. New York. I built data centers, delivered a landmark public-private partnership, and founded and sold a company.

I sat down with @KevinMutiso on his Let The Cake Bake Podcast to share what I learned along the way.

Good ideas don't belong to one party.
The farmers and mill owners we served didn't want subsidies. They wanted to turn waste into value.

Integrity is the linchpin.
Trust is the only currency that lasts, in business or in public service.

Economic development is singles and doubles.
Everyone chases the big headline, small companies are what keep the big ones here.

Keeping businesses matters as much as attracting them.

Small in land & BIG in ocean.

Rhode Island is the only place in America where the Navy designs undersea systems, submarines get built, offshore wind comes ashore, and a startup builds flying boats. All within 30 miles.

Kenya and Rhode Island have more in common than you’d think.

Both are betting their future on the blue economy. Both are home to restless entrepreneurs. Kenya hosted the world’s first global conference on the sustainable blue economy. Ocean State, meet the Swahili Coast.

Our size is our advantage.
A founder can sit down with the Governor, If any state can move fast on hard problems, it's ours.

Show up.
For your community, for your neighbors and for your state.

Kevin, I'm so impressed by what you've built with Let The Cake Bake. Thoughtful, global, and full of builders. I'm confident @davidsenra of the Founders podcast would be too.

Full conversation:
https://t.co/i5bcaBlOzv

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

After learning of his Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine early Monday morning, Karl Deisseroth spent hours answering calls, giving interviews and being photographed by journalists. His young children were asleep upstairs and had yet to discover that their father's life and work had just drastically changed with one phone call from Sweden.

But life continues – he took a break at 6:30 in the morning to make lunch for his kids as they would be waking up soon and leaving for school.

[The Associated Press @AP]

Pope Leo XIV announced he will undergo surgery to remove a nodular lesion on his lung. The pope said it was found at an early stage. https://t.co/T6dyGtAmCC

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Liftoff!

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Tu Youyou became the first mainland Chinese scientist to be awarded a #NobelPrize in a scientific field - for discovering artemisinin, a malaria cure that’s saved millions. Today we reveal the 2026 medicine laureate. Stay tuned.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.

[Kenyan Wall Street @kenyanwalstreet]

Safaricom wasn’t always the dominant force it is today.

Its story began in 1993 as a small experimental mobile telecommunications operation within Kenya Posts and Telecommunications Corporation (KPTC), testing Kenya’s first analogue mobile network. By 1996, the operation had moved to digital GSM technology.

Safaricom was incorporated in April 1997 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Telkom Kenya, with only about 12,000–17,000 subscribers. Then, in May 2000, Vodafone acquired a 40% stake for about KSh4 billion, and Michael Joseph was appointed the company’s first CEO two months later.

When Safaricom launched nationwide commercial operations on October 23, 2000, it made a deliberate bet on accessibility. Rather than relying primarily on expensive postpaid services, it focused heavily on prepaid mobile services and invested KSh3.7 billion in expanding its network.

Then came one of its early competitive breakthroughs: per-second billing.

In 2001, Safaricom challenged rival KenCell’s per-minute billing model by charging customers based on the actual duration of their calls. It also brought down SIM connection costs and later introduced the KSh100 scratch card in 2003, further lowering the barriers to mobile access.

The company’s biggest transformation came in 2007, when Safaricom launched M-Pesa, taking its role beyond telecommunications and into mobile financial services.

A year later, Safaricom listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange, with the government offering 25% of its stake to the public. By 2010, the company had grown from roughly 20,000 subscribers to more than 16.7 million.

From a small experimental mobile operation to a publicly listed telecommunications and financial-services giant, Safaricom’s rise was built through a series of decisions that steadily made mobile services more accessible to millions of people.

Sometimes, the biggest companies start by solving a very simple problem: making something accessible to more people.

[Michael-Anthony Macharia @MikeMachariaSST]

https://t.co/tO34kfvHSb

Kenyan founders do not be left behind .

[Jason Dodier @J_Dodier]

Proud of today's inaugural Futures Ocean forum in Newport, Rhode Island put on by @CommerceRI with leaders, investors and researchers from around the world. A few takeaways:

[Sky Sports Darts @SkySportsDarts]

David Munyua has booked his place at Alexandra Palace ✅

[Saj Vayani @SajVayani]

Coffee Pump and @couchconnectpod live podcast Dec 19. Get your tickets: https://t.co/3kcer8C4LS

[OYE Kenya @oyeapp_ke]

Be mindful of the pedestrians kwa roadi, give them space to cross safely

#OYEKenya #TheBodaCompany

[Kevin Mutiso @KevinMutiso]

#TheFutureIsHere

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students.

A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet.

Study groups are disappearing. Office hours are emptying out. Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum. Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle.

The numbers are rough. 46 percent of surveyed MIT undergrads use LLMs daily. 90 percent worry about their own overreliance. Undergrads who feel AI makes them replaceable now outnumber those who feel it makes them capable.

The committee's answer surprised me. They refused to fight AI with surveillance. The report calls AI detectors unreliable, says lockdown browsers feel like spying, and warns that policing students builds a classroom atmosphere of mutual distrust.

Instead, MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates.

The committee warns professors against replacing undergrad research assistants with AI agents just because they're cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output.

The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students.

A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet.

Study groups are disappearing. Office hours are emptying out. Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum. Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle.

The numbers are rough. 46 percent of surveyed MIT undergrads use LLMs daily. 90 percent worry about their own overreliance. Undergrads who feel AI makes them replaceable now outnumber those who feel it makes them capable.

The committee's answer surprised me. They refused to fight AI with surveillance. The report calls AI detectors unreliable, says lockdown browsers feel like spying, and warns that policing students builds a classroom atmosphere of mutual distrust.

Instead, MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates.

The committee warns professors against replacing undergrad research assistants with AI agents just because they're cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output.

The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.

[Wandile Sihlobo @WandileSihlobo]

South Africa bought a lot of wheat from Poland between October 2025 and early September 2026. In total, South Africa has imported about 1.8 million tonnes of wheat from the world market. About 23% came from Poland, 15% from Russia, and 14% from Lithuania, amongst other suppliers.

In general, South Africa imports about half of its annual wheat consumption. For folks wondering why South Africa imports half of its annual wheat usage, here goes:

South Africa began importing over 1 million tonnes of wheat from the 2003-04 marketing year onward. Before that, wheat imports averaged 458,518 tonnes between 1989-90 and 2002-03. The import surge resulted from increased consumption and a decline in area plantings.

From the 1997-98 season, South Africa’s wheat plantings fell below a million hectares, the norm in seasons before this period. This decline is better explained by the profitability challenges farmers have faced since then, particularly in the Free State and amid non-conducive climatic conditions.

The key point is that before 1997-98, South Africa’s agricultural markets were regulated, and commodity boards played a major role in setting prices, including wheat prices.

Thus, after deregulation, South African farmers had to compete in the global market. As a result, Free State production areas came under financial strain, leading farmers to switch from wheat to other profitable crops.

Other provinces of South Africa don’t have large areas with climatic conditions conducive to high-quality wheat milling for human consumption. Hence, we speak of a few major wheat-producing provinces: the Western Cape and, mainly under irrigation, the Northern Cape, Free State, Limpopo, and North West.

A significant development over the years has been improved productivity in South Africa’s wheat farming. In 1997-98, South Africa’s wheat yields were below 2,0 tonnes per hectare. Yields were 3,8 tonnes per hectare in the 2024-25 production season.

Still, the wheat industry is under strain this year as drier weather conditions and higher input costs, among other challenges, continue to weigh on the domestic wheat industry.

-wandile

[Samora Kariuki @SamoraKariuki]

Fuliza disburses trillions of shillings yet contributes less than 6% of the top line.

The distinction is mechanical: disbursement measures principal moving through the product; revenue captures only the fees and interest earned. Volume and value accumulate at different rates.

[UEFA @UEFA]

🏆 The 2026 UEFA President’s Award goes to Thierry Henry!

👏 The honour recognises professional excellence and exemplary personal qualities, on and off the pitch.