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Seed Capitalist: 20 years too late

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Perspectives on living, working and investing in East Africa. Monday, March 26, 2012. 20 years too late. Uganda's in the news again, due to the extraordinary reaction to Invisible Children's You Tube video, Kony 2012. Most of the people I know in Uganda are bewildered. Northern Uganda has been more or less peaceful for the last 10 years, since Joseph Kony's rag-tag band of thugs disappeared into across the Ugandan borders into central Africa, so why now? Except with black Kony replacing white Kurtz as ".

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Seed Capitalist: Diverse perspectives, shared objective

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Perspectives on living, working and investing in East Africa. Sunday, June 10, 2012. Diverse perspectives, shared objective. Pearl Capital Partners' latest fund, African Agricultural Capital Fund, has recently been the subject of a case study published by the Global Impact Investing Network. It can be downloaded by visiting http:/ www.thegiin.org/cgi-bin/iowa/resources/research/424.html. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). My heart's in Accra. Supporting Feyisa Lilesa, a remarkable athlete and protester.

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Seed Capitalist: July 2011

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Perspectives on living, working and investing in East Africa. Friday, July 8, 2011. The birth of a country. So, just as with any new birth, let us pray that South Sudan grows and flourishes, and confounds the gloomy biblical prophecy that some of the pentecostal Christian churches that themselves infest the fertile spiritual ground of South Sudan purvey:. How horrible it will be for the land of whirring wings which lies beyond the rivers of Sudan" Isaiah 18.1. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Men of My Dreams.

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Seed Capitalist: May 2012

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Perspectives on living, working and investing in East Africa. Wednesday, May 2, 2012. I was recently invited to speak at the Kisubi Seminary, close to Entebbe, on the importance of studying Latin. The whys and wherefores of the invitation are another story: suffice it to say that I managed to find the correct left-hand turn off the Entebbe Road and found myself heading for the seminary, tucked away on a wonderful site bordering Lake Victoria. And was the name given to Fr Lourdel by the Baganda. ). Is wha...

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Seed Capitalist: September 2011

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Perspectives on living, working and investing in East Africa. Wednesday, September 21, 2011. Earlier this week, I attended a workshop to discuss the future financing of Africa's seed industry, convened by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa and held at one of Nairobi's swankiest hotels, Tribe, located next to the Village Market in Gigiri. While Tribe is an extremely stylish venue, no question, it fails the. Growth, too, brings its own business challenges. An owner-manager can generally mana...

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Seed Capitalist: Two tribes

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Perspectives on living, working and investing in East Africa. Monday, April 30, 2012. As an exercise in pontification and speculation, there was much to admire: in particular the. Since the collapse of the Soviet empire 20 years ago, the stealthy march of capitalism now dominates the entire globe. Its leaders - whether by design or by accident - have discovered the power of the media to colonise and dominate the mind. They have muzzled alternative political views through the marginalisation of the. I am ...

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Seed Capitalist: February 2012

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Perspectives on living, working and investing in East Africa. Tuesday, February 21, 2012. White visitors to East Africa will very quickly understand the meaning of the word. For a long period, I assumed that it was a direct reference to skin colour, but in fact it is derived from the linguistic root. Regardless of its derivation, there is no doubt that mzungu now means. A day seldom goes by when children in my neighbourhood (who must see me almost every day) shout ". There are variations on the T-shirt p...

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Seed Capitalist: October 2011

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Perspectives on living, working and investing in East Africa. Monday, October 31, 2011. The positive power of capital. The positive power of capital". Is the slogan of the giant emerging markets private equity firm Actis. For all the justifiable criticism of unfettered global capitalism, private sector investment remains the most effective means of driving economic growth. The publication is available through the Pearl Capital website www.pearlcapital.net/new impact investment.html. Warm heart of Africa".

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Seed Capitalist: January 2012

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Perspectives on living, working and investing in East Africa. Tuesday, January 24, 2012. Africa and the ICC. This is very sad. It seems to me that it is an entirely good thing for people everywhere that there is an independent body able to investigate alleged crimes against humanity and bring charges against parties involved. And it also seems to me that we ought to be able to put narrow-minded nationalistic concerns behind us and wholeheartedly support the ICC's aims and activities. Well, the global lov...