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The Kwathu Kollective initiative is conducting a research study to better understand how farmers make decisions, the challenges they face, and how digital tools can support better farming outcomes.

If you are reading this, it means that I have graduated from my MBA program, and I now hold two Master’s degrees in business and entrepreneurship!

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.

In the book ‘Big Bets’, Dr. Rajiv Shah talks about the Ebola crisis, COVID-19 vaccines, food security, international development, and all this at a scale that most of us do not really get the insight to see.

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

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.

“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.

Most public conversations about development begin with infrastructure. The roads are poor.
Electricity is unreliable. Water systems are inconsistent. Internet access is limited.

At 10:03 a.m. on the 17th of April, 2026, Malawi experienced a national system shutdown. There was a countrywide loss of power supply.