Auteur/autrice : Jacob Opara

I have had the humbling honor to travel to different countries in the past and one thing has been very troubling for me whenever I introduce myself as coming from Kenya, Nairobi. My most recent experience was yesterday on a long flight from Nairobi to Casablanca. I was seated next to a co-participant of COP22 Conference being held at Marakech, Morocco whom we started a conversation after going through some stomach-rumbling, fist-clinching bumpy rides 40,000 feet above sea level. Shameful of us! Anyways, he asks : “Aha my friend, so tell me about the booming entrepreneurship ecosystem in Nairobi”. All…