My colleagues and I on the roof of the Nendo office in Nairobi. Photo by June Ondeng.
“As a tech scene, no one can rival us. South Africa is doing a good job though.”
Benson Mutahi said this to me with a mocking smile, trying to spark a national rivalry. It was March and we were at the iHub – an innovation hub and hacker space for the technology community in Nairobi. With me were three colleagues, as well as five digital marketing interns we brought together from Zimbabwe, Kenya, Sudan, Ethiopia and Mauritius to do user research.
