My blog posts and external op-eds/articles on business-related topics
Zanzibar is not outclassing Kenya as a whole. But in focused leisure tourism, it is pulling ahead of the Kenya Coast. Kenya has the beaches, food, history, Swahili heritage, resorts, and location. What it needs now is a sharper coastal strategy, stronger branding, better infrastructure, and a serious push to make the Swahili Coast visible to the world.
As a strong signal around where the project is heading, the launch also picked up media coverage. KBC and KTN aired stories on the project and the show house reveal, while Citizen covered Silva Gigiri in its digital news edition.
The Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi was an unambiguous example of how Africa-Europe relations have moved firmly into the post-aid era. “Trade, not aid” has been around as a slogan for decades. In Nairobi, it became the actual agenda: trade, investment, infrastructure, financing, and partnership. Co-hosted by Kenya and France on 11–12 May 2026, the…
Africa’s tourism boom is real. In 2025, the continent was the world’s fastest-growing tourism region, with arrivals up about 8% to roughly 81 million visitors. This is no longer just recovery. It is growth. The demand is there. But African destinations are still making it too hard to capture. The continent has the product: wildlife,…
Africa’s beaches can compete with the best in the world, but global rankings rarely show it. The problem is not the coastline. It is visibility, positioning, and marketing power.
JKIA once had a stronger claim as East Africa’s leading aviation hub, but regional competition is moving fast. Addis Ababa has expanded aggressively, Kigali is building for the future, and Nairobi risks slipping behind. Reviving the Greenfield Terminal and reconsidering a second runway would not just upgrade an airport. It would strengthen Kenya’s tourism, trade, airline connectivity, and wider economic position.
The Trans-African Highway network, a bold blueprint conceived to foster economic integration on the African continent, has been a captivating vision since its inception in 1971. Initiated by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the project aims to integrate the continent through an expansive road network. Despite political obstacles and inconsistent collaboration between…
Africa has the demand, destinations, and trade potential. What it still lacks is affordable, practical air connectivity. This article looks at how high flight costs hold back tourism and business across the continent, and why airspace liberalisation could become one of Africa’s most important growth levers.
Kenya has the destinations, infrastructure, and investment climate to attract far more visitors. What it does not need is a visa process that blocks last-minute trips, frustrates frequent travellers, and sends tourism revenue elsewhere. This article argues for a simple fix: bring back visa-on-arrival, or go further with visa-free access for key source markets.
As the world reopens, and leisure tourism gradually resumes, African countries have a competitive advantage in the scramble for tourist arrivals. As the world continues to battle Covid-19, most African countries seem to have weathered the global public health crisis quite benignly. This has left newsrooms across the planet puzzled. For decades if not centuries, the…
