Kui Mbugua

a million miles away at a location near you

[Geoff Keighley @geoffkeighley]

Hats off to doctoral student and podcaster Zhong Shu in Beijing, China, who did this fascinating and smart interview with Christopher Nolan about THE ODYSSEY yesterday, originally posted to Bilibili.

A great listen/watch.

[Papa 🇰🇪 @KPLG4T]

Like this isn’t the sickest verse he’s ever written

[Josh Constine 📶🔥 @JoshConstine]

“Craft is knowing how to start, art is knowing when to stop”. Did not have Ben Affleck’s astute commentary about AI on my bingo card.

[Waruiru @_waruiru_]

May the creators of Ilovepdf never know hunger. May they never lack. May their cups never run dry🥹. May goodness and mercy follow them all the days if their lives🥹🙏

[Kui Mbugua @KuiTheMbugua]

Running into jackals in Karura Forest during a Sunday walk was not on my bingo card for 2024 @FriendsofKarura

[Kui Mbugua @KuiTheMbugua]

@kibetkenneth 😂😂😂

[Kui Mbugua @KuiTheMbugua]

@GeorgeDrammeh @kibetkenneth

[Kui Mbugua @KuiTheMbugua]

@breegathonce @verbstract Ah! 😂

[𝔼𝕕𝕚𝕥𝕙 ℙ𝕦𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕖 @justxhenry]

Eli Pope was hell and I loved him everyday for it. https://t.co/jHATP2jeRI

[Yoseph Ayele @yosephayele]

A big mistake the world is making is treating African countries as “developing markets”

“Developing” assumes a known & predetermined destination, following a known linear path

Africa is a frontier market

Here is why:

1. Africa is going through major transformations, at the convergence of these tectonic shifts:
* massive demographic changes / population growth never seen anywhere before,
* access to paradigm changing technologies that no other region had while in similar stages as Africa today,
the internet is facilitating hyper connectivity and fast information flow,
* wide institutional vacuums that need to be filled from scratch.

There is no other region that faced the same challenges at such scale, while also having so much technology and knowledge at its disposal as Africa has today.

Instead of trenching the whole continent and laying land line cables, Africans jumped to mobile phones for analog + digital connectivity. Today there are 93 mobile cellular subscriptions for very 100 Africans, and 72% access the internet on mobile.

Instead of putting ATM machines in every corner and waiting decades for mega banks to be built, Africans moved to digital #mobilemoney and became more cashless. Today 70% of the world’s $1 trillion mobile money market is in Africa, with 621M registered users, doing 36.7B transactions/year and a volume of $701B.

Instead of recreating SWIFT and western union to facilitate non-predatory simple cross-border commerce, Africans are using #crypto for faster and more affordable ways to transact with their neighbours + the rest of the world. Today we have $100B+ onchain crypto volume in Africa, 96% of which are used for cross-border transactions.

Instead of overhauling local monetary policies and rewriting IMF/World Bank lending rules to use global currencies, more Africans are using #stablecoins to permissionlessly transact with the world. Stablecoins are the #1 use case for crypto tokens to bypass crippling FOREX shortages and draconian government rules in major African countries.

Instead of having hundreds of millions Africans relocate elsewhere seeking better opportunities (I did that 15 years ago) and changing most countries’ immigration settings that keep Africans away (I tried that too), young Africans are plugging into a #permissionless global economy powered by #Web3. They are joining global communities, working with #DAOs, earning global income, learning most things online and building #onchain reputation, without having to leave their home countries and missing home cooked food.

The ways Africans are building their countries is not linear and it won’t follow one we’ve seen done before. While parallels can be drawn and lessons can be learned, there isn’t a pre-existing template Africans are following.

So if you’re looking outside in, take off the “development” glasses and observe how Africas are walking on uncharted territories.

When Africans entrepreneurs are building, the variables they optimize for are very different from those in the West, and they have different constraints and barriers.

The West is updating its financial system. Africans are building one from the ground up.

Africa is a frontier market and needs to be treated as such.

[Kamau Kibugi @jimna1]

Greetings folks! Urgent blood donation appeal for Christine Kamau who is admitted at @MPShahhospital HDU. @bloodlineKE @KenyaRedCross Any blood group is acceptable.
Kindly re-tweet.

[D.od @dodmichaela]

Remember that your life is meant to delight you… #MondayMusings🖤

[Gerry McBride @GerryMcBride]

After the early bricks but before smartphones, there was a stretch where phone design went absolutely catshit bananas (1/?)

[Oliver Mathenge @OliverMathenge]

Presidents Ruto and Ramaphosa agree on new visa regime where South Africa will allow Kenyans visa-free entry from January 1 for a maximum of 90 days annually.

[@sisterspeaks254 @sisterspeaks254]

Tonight's #OVAReactPodcast episode features @KuiTheMbugua - GM of @UberEats Kenya and her story is about navigating through different career ladders and still emerging as a leader! Tune in tonight from 10.30 pm EAT via @capitalfmkenya

[Kui Mbugua @KuiTheMbugua]

@kibetkenneth 😂😂😂

[Kui Mbugua @KuiTheMbugua]

@ChepiTheOne @SBTopWomen @UberEats Thank you! 🎊

[#SBTopWomen @SBTopWomen]

@KuiTheMbugua is the General Manager of @UberEats, based in Kenya and a speaker at our conference!

To hear more from Kui, get your tickets here: https://t.co/VeET9IunB1

#RiseAboveTheNoise #SBTopWomen #TopWomen #StandardBankTopWomen

[Wisdom Kaye @modsiwW]

I know the other day I said I made my best video...but then I made this one...