Uber. Global. On-Demand. Controversial. Feared. Celebrated. Excellent. Disruptive. US$ 42+ Billion Valuation. These are the things that come to mind when I think about Uber, that wunderkind of the nascent and fast growing global on-demand economy enabled by mobile apps and the Internet. Uber was late coming to Kenya having

Its just under a week since Safaricom successfully executed their monumental M-Pesa G-2 upgrade which involved ‘bringing M-Pesa home’ after the G-1 platform was hosted by Vodafone for close to 8 years in Germany – since M-Pesa’s commenced operations in Kenya. Everything seemed to have gone according to plan after

Jumia.co.ke, arguably Kenya’s leading contender for the ‘Amazon.com of Kenya’ moniker today shared a report whereby they indicated their mobile traffic had reached 37% of all online traffic. I found this number surprisingly low given that in my experience, mobile traffic in Kenya is almost always on par if not