Eddy Ashioya

3 weeks ago | businessdailyafrica.com | Eddy Ashioya

Ifeanyi Odoh is feverish when I walk into his office. His voice, like stepping on broken glass, keeps drifting in and out of consciousness, a minute-by-minute lesson in insidiousness. Yet he doesn’t want to stop. “You are here already,” he says, “Let’s talk.” Talk we do. About his morning walks. His father. His life story is well-trodden. Born in Nigeria, he went to France’s top engineering school, École Polytechnique on a scholarship—his family was not wealthy.

4 weeks ago | nation.africa | Eddy Ashioya

I was lounging on the chair, popcorn in hand, and watching some doomsday movie on Netflix. The starring/otero/stero was just about to be shot 17 times by three different men, and yet, somehow, he would survive because this was an American movie and the American hero always survives—when the doorbell rang. I wasn’t expecting anyone. I hadn’t ordered any deliveries—human food or “human food” if you catch my drift. In any case, my friends always call before they visit, right?

1 month ago | businessdailyafrica.com | Eddy Ashioya

What is the rudest question you can ask a woman? “How old are you?” “What do you weigh?” “How did you make it in a male-dominated field?” No, the worst question is: “How do you juggle it all?” because that subsumes that women have to juggle it all, something that is rarely, if ever, asked of men. And yet Elizabeth Costabir, the CEO of BuyRentKenya and PigiaMe, does not shy away from such questions. She welcomes them, even. “It’s part of the learning process,” she says.

1 month ago | nation.africa | Eddy Ashioya

What you need to know:If I were ever to be in jail for something, I thought, it would be an elaborately planned crime, something of which I would appear in the 4pm, 7pm and 9pm news because I am greedy like that. Thought it. But I’m not stupid. I wouldn’t say that out loud. Police and informants lurk in these streets like critters in cracks. They’re everywhere.

1 month ago | businessdailyafrica.com | Eddy Ashioya

If you asked Mukesh Desai what the face of God looks like, he would tell you, “It is the smile on the faces of the children we help.” Mukesh, a director and chief finance officer of Prafulchandra & Brothers Ltd, a 45-year-old Kenyan company that deals in lighting, is a philanthropist. This is the dominating gene in his family’s DNA, handed down from his paterfamilias. Mukesh is big and generous in both hospitality and conversation.