Eddy Ashioya

1 week ago | nation.africa | Eddy Ashioya

What you need to know:My bumper was gone, and with it, my Christian upbringing. My washer fluid was bleeding on the asphalt like a drunk man had taken a really long pee, like how drunk men take really long pees. The more I looked, the uglier it seemed. I was pissed. My anger was a knife they couldn’t blunt. I did that very Kenyan thing of “Do you know who I am!” Someone somewhere has a voodoo doll of me and is plucking each immaculate shred of hair one by one.

1 week ago | businessdailyafrica.com | Eddy Ashioya

Edgar Kitur enters the cafe in Nairobi’s Riverside Square, proffers a large, warm hand and sets down his gym bag for our interview. He is from the gym, but he is also juggling work and guests at the office, a busy man. There is something grounding about his effortless energy—like if you sat next to him at brunch, you would leave with a new playlist, a restaurant recommendation and maybe an injection of energy that you didn’t know you needed. Edgar studied at St Andrew’s Turi.

2 weeks ago | nation.africa | Eddy Ashioya

What you need to know:The root of all evil is not money, but the lack of it. Like denizens of Nairobi who are best classified thus – those who have made it, and those who are in the process of making it—we are yet to make it, but we are getting there. Kuna deal flani zinaivana. I, however, can’t tell you how much the bahasha had. What I am about to tell you does not leave this page. Men are in love with each other, and women are a convenience. Don’t say you heard that from me.

2 weeks ago | businessdailyafrica.com | Eddy Ashioya

When Anne Muya quit the “drudgery of the 9-to-5”, something shifted in her. She ditched the grey power suits, false fortifications, and the mean mien that defines accountants. She added silk to her steel. Now she’s in red, and in red lipstick, she’s a girl again. After leaving the banking industry, she founded Finsmiths Investment, a wealth management company and Finsmiths Insurance Agency. She rediscovered her first loves: gardening, golf and driving.

3 weeks ago | businessdailyafrica.com | Eddy Ashioya

Alley Cat. Hooky Nooky. Pussycat. Puff Daddy. Sanddollar. These are not the names of fancy cocktails, but rather of boats that were rowing for the title of Kenya’s ultimate fisherman or woman in the Friends of Kenya Fishing Tournament 2025 held in Watamu three weeks ago. It is Kenya’s only 36-hour sport fishing competition.