In 1984, TK Muya, a former civil servant opened a building society lending to tea, coffee and dairy farmers. No banking pedigree, just a bet on the unbanked farmers. Next week that bet lists on the stock exchange in Nairobi: 96 branches, 1.3M customers, KES 208B in assets. The family still holds ~35%.
Kenya is one of the poorest countries in the world, with 45.5% of the population living in extreme poverty.
This means close to half of the country's population lived below the international poverty line of $3 a day.
I’m so in awe of builders. Like this thing exists in your mind and then all of a sudden it is concrete, it is alive and you share it with the world. Creating slices of joy, convenience & gratitude for strangers.
That is magic. And you are awesome
Don’t elect people who fundamentally don’t like you. It permeates everything and cascades all the way down. You can survive a lot of things, but hard to escape a government that thinks you are dispensable.
That’s why police can tell grieving and anxious parents to relax.
It’s impossible to set up a high quality clinic in Kenya for a complex & lethal disease like Ebola. Ebola patients won’t get good care, risking citizens’ lives. Staff won’t have the training to protect themselves and their patients. It’s unprecedented, reckless & unethical
Kenyan police allowed Arsenal fans to gather and disperse peacefully but they never allow the same youth to protest against the government without killing some
After overtaxing you, drowning you in debt and cooking the shadiest fuel deals in our history, this govt now wants applause for ‘negotiating’ a crisis it created.
They hike prices, blame a ‘global crisis’, then compromise a few loud voices into silence and call it leadership.
Kenya doesn’t need photo‑ops and KSh10 gimmicks on diesel. We need the extractive cartel state dismantled.
We must Reset, Restore & Rebuild Kenya #Ukombozi
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