I recently had the opportunity to engage with the AMR Fellows at Zihi Institute Kenya, in a session focused on Design Thinking in Project Planning and Implementation. It was an enriching conversation that highlighted an important reality in development work and community engagement: solutions are most effective when they are designed with people, not just…
What determines whether communication succeeds or fails in an organization? Is it the clarity of the message, the sophistication of the media platform, or the credibility of the communicator? While all of these matter, the decisive factor is often in understanding the people who have the power to influence, interpret, support, resist, or reshape the…
Register to join me for The Creative Employee Workshop, which I’ll be facilitating for Jobpally on the 25th of May 2026 For most of the industrial era, workplaces rewarded efficiency above all else. The best employee was often the one who could follow systems, execute repeatable tasks, and produce predictable results at scale. Today, that…
Every few years, someone declares poetry dead. Usually, the argument sounds convincing. People read less. Attention spans are collapsing. Social media has reduced language to captions, emojis, and half-finished thoughts. For such a “we are in a hurry” world, poetry which is known for its sometimes slow, reflective and layered style should have disappeared long…
The creative industries have a language problem. Not in the sense of vocabulary or expression, but in the way they describe themselves. “Diversity,” “inclusion,” and “representation” have become standard corporate grammar. Yet these terms mask a deeper structural issue: the creative workforce is culturally plural in its outputs, but still culturally narrow in its decision-making…
I do wonder how much relevance this fact holds in the entire globe. “Africa is not a country” now quietly translates to a “call to action” mantra when it is, [in its total essence] NOT supposed to be so. For ages undeterminable, Africa has been regarded with so many stereotypes attached to its existence as…