When the Sun Rises, you better be running – It’s a Silicon Savannah It’s May 1 st , Week 18 of 2020, Labor Day 2020. Another holiday gone, Covid19 has brought with it a sobering paradigm shift and perspective re-focus. Jalang’o on radio wittingly reckons the Govt owes us a holiday. Not long ago in his comical fashion he delivered Thomas Friedman’s ‘Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun comes up, you’d better be running’ . Kenya is one of Africa’s Innovation quadrangle together with Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt. Nairobi is no doubt the nerve-center of East Africa’s technology ecosystem. In this bustling city, one thing is evident, with the first ray of sunlight, everybody is running Image: GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator Tech ...
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