Writing

This week, I graduate with my MBA from Michigan State University. I am marking that moment in Nairobi, where I have been selected as one of ten leaders in the inaugural Africa cohort of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Big Bets Fellowship.

John D. Rockefeller

John Rockefeller is often introduced as the first modern billionaire. That framing is incomplete. His significance lies in the fact that he built two systems, sequentially, each with lasting global implications.

AfricaXchange is framed around money, markets, and mindsets. That framing reflects a broader shift. There is a growing recognition that fragmented interventions are insufficient.

“What does your country produce?” A question at dinner in New York that I grew to dread. It should be an easy question to answer; and yet… it was not.