Happy International Women’s Day — Women will continue to be crucial to Africa’s development. In June 2019 I wrote a piece outlining why I believe this to be true and how we at Impact Africa Network are setup to fully capitalize on female talent as a key strategic advantage. Since then, we have proceeded to…

Two Year Traction Report — January 2021 marks our two year anniversary; and even we, have been surprised by what we have accomplished so far. We launched IAN around my apartment dining table in Nairobi with 6 wide eyed interns who were the very first cohort of what has evolved to become our Innovation Fellowship…

I posted an article on my experience as a black person in Silicon Valley and it got some attention. Some tech CEOs were moved to action. …

Dedicated to the memory of all those killed for being black — I don’t remember the specific moment when I fully accepted that my life in America was structurally compromised, that there was a glass ceiling along with four constricting walls to opportunity. That not being a highly gifted athlete, artist, or celebrity of some sort whose job is to entertain the…

*Tupac voice* — Africa’s startup ecosystem has a diversity problem. Believe it or not this is a snapshot of the entrepreneurs getting funded in Africa. Image sourced from a tweet sent by an individual who happens to be a white male, living in London whose salaried job is to, believe it or not…

The secret to Silicon Savanna’s future — More than most, my life has been disproportionately influenced by women. I was raised by a single mother who had me at 19. …

This is slide #1 on our fundraising pitch deck. Wish us luck! In 2019 life offers more possibilities for more people than at any other time in recorded history. But still, nowhere close to equitably. Lyft, the other more huggable ride share startup from San Francisco IPO’d yesterday. Two college…

This morning I came across a super insightful blog post by one David Ventzel titled; “Why most European startup accelerators are dead,…..” which for the life of me I now can’t find to link back to :( The main takeaway from David’s post was that any accelerator must have atomic…

“Where there is no vision, the people perish” — What is Silicon Savanna’s vision? What are we trying to become? What does success look like when it finally arrives? Nairobi’s startup ecosystem cannot be divorced from the broader national context in which it exists. Indeed, it is a microcosm of that larger narrative. …