I spent Wednesday morning at the fourth Safaricom Cybersecurity Summit in Nairobi, where the theme was “Harnessing AI, Strengthening Security”. Peter Ndegwa, Safaricom’s Group CEO, gave a speech that set the terms of the day. In a nutshell, he made the case that trust, not technology, is the scarce resource

Opening addresses at summits are usually throat-clearing. Nicholas Mulila’s at the fourth Safaricom Cybersecurity Summit in Nairobi on Wednesday was not. As Safaricom’s Chief Corporate Security Officer, he is responsible business continuity, ethics and compliance, revenue assurance, physical and cyber security and the anti-money laundering activities for the largest technology

In February 2019 I wrote my first impressions of a yellow-branded on-demand delivery app that had just arrived in Nairobi, and a couple of weeks later I set out four reasons why it could become Kenya’s killer on-demand delivery app. In June 2021 I sat down with its co-founder and