From A Billboard Surfing Session On Ngong Road To Understanding How Branch Became Kenya’s Leading Neobank
I have a habit that many may find somewhere between endearing and mildly eccentric. I call it, ‘billboard surfing’. Whenever I am commuting around Nairobi — or anywhere else in Kenya for that matter — and I spot an out-of-home campaign that catches my eye, for the right or wrong reasons, I take a
The Kenswitch & Visa Partnership: A Step Towards Transforming Kenya’s Digital Payments Infrastructure From The Inside Out
There is a category of business story that never quite gets the attention it deserves. Not the flashy consumer app with the slick onboarding, not the challenger neobank plastered across billboards on Ngong Road, and certainly not the crypto play promising to reinvent money overnight. The story I am talking
Showmax Is Dead. Long Live DStv Stream — A Digital Transformation That Might Actually Work!
A few weeks ago, I wrote about what looked like the inevitable end of Showmax. At the time, the signals were clear: It felt like the beginning of the end. Fast forward to today — and I received an email earlier today that completely reframes that narrative. Showmax, as a standalone platform,