Archive for Tag: #kenyanpolitics

Campaigns, Customers & Conviction: What Kenyan politics teaches us about sales

Kenyan politics right now offers a surprising number of sales lessons—not because politics and selling are the same, but because campaigns are essentially large-scale exercises in persuasion, trust-building, messaging, and mobilization. Whether you’re seeking votes or closing sales, the principles that move people remain remarkably consistent. Here’s what every sales person can learn from the

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Abductions, extrajudicial killings, and fighting an idea whose time has come

“In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.” With the ongoing Gen Z protests in Kenya, could this be the problem we are facing in our politics? Spoken by industrialist J Paul Getty in the mid-20th Century and typically associated with business, the goings-on in Kenya’s political landscape would appear to show

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