Eddy Ashioya

3 weeks ago | nation.africa | Eddy Ashioya

What you need to know:You don’t want to put the book down, you want to know what albino meat tastes like, but then your phone pings again. “Harakisha.” She’s thrown a wink emoji there too, which only means one thing: The albino can wait. At this point, let’s put a marker here. There is a teachable lesson here, if you squint carefully Say what you want, but very few moments in a man’s life can be truly defined as teachable. One is when his mother dies.

3 weeks ago | businessdailyafrica.com | Eddy Ashioya

“I met Sanusi Lamido, the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, when I was working as an investment banker, and he had come to speak to some of our clients in our London office. He was wearing a bow tie, and all these mzungus [white people] were hanging on to every word he said, and he was such a smart guy, and I thought, wow, maybe if I wear a bow tie I will become half as brilliant as this guy,” he says.

1 month 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 month 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.

1 month 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.