Msafiri

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Msafiri

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THE ONLY WAY IS UP • At 66 years of age, Everest’s first Kenyan success story is giving back to the community. Earlier this year, James Kagambi led hundreds of climbers on a sponsored hike up Mt Kenya to raise funds for a home that arranges orthopaedic surgery for kids with disabilities. We met the mountaineer with a mission…

EXTRA TIME FOOTBALL FEVER • Josaya Wasonga on how to deal with World Cup hangovers

SELECTING THE RIGHT PATHWAY FOR YOUR CHILD • Helping shape global futures with pre-university offerings in a British international school setting

ABIGAEL MUTHOKA • Gen-Z DJ and producer Abigael Muthoka speaks to msafiri about nightlife in Nairobi, DJ culture and the realities of building a music career today

EVERY GREAT FUTURE BEGINS WITH A PLACE TO LEARN • Through its free community library initiative, AMG Foundation is helping bring Kenyan children’s dreams to life

SECRETS TO A LONG LIFE • A blueprint for health and longevity

5 OF THE WORLD’S BLUE ZONES • Find out where people live the longest

THE POWER 9 • The nine shared lifestyle characteristics among Blue Zone populations

INTO THE WOODS • Inspired by our foraging ancestry, Chef Geena uses tasty ingredients for a wild mushroom stew and gooseberry cookies

3 THINGS ABOUT MENTORSHIP I WISH I KNEW EARLIER • Who are the people who have influenced you positively in life? Do you have anyone you look up to, carrer-wise or socially?

ECHOES OF GIANTS • When Craig, Amboseli’s legendary tusker, took his final breath, the world didn’t just lose a wildlife icon. Kenya faced a deeper question: how do you say goodbye to a creature that felt almost eternal?

HOW TO MAKE A MARATHON MAN HE GAME, HE SAWE, HE CONQUERED

JUST A MAN ON A HILL • Safaricom’s CEO on why getting lost is the only way to truly find a place

TANZANIA DREAMING… • A sunrise watching elephants ambling through the golden grasslands of the Serengeti. A final evening on Zanzibar with fishing boats silhouetted against the velvet waters of the Indian Ocean. Between those moments lies one of Africa’s most rewarding journeys.

THE ULTIMATE SERENGETIZANZIBAR COMBO • From Indian Ocean idyll to the great wildlife plains

PEOPLE WATCHING • Mũthoni Ngatia is a Kenyan woman moving between the world of data and policy and the world of documentary photography and finding that both are ultimately about the same thing: honest observation

BEYOND THE BREAKTHROUGH: WHEN ONE WOMAN RISES, WHOLE COMMUNITIES RISE • Earlier this year, ALX, the pan-African technology and career accelerator that equips young people with skills needed to succeed in the global digital economy, held the ALX Women’s Month Global Virtual Event, bringing together women in technology from across Africa. It featured powerful conversations with African women leaders, founders and professionals, exploring the theme of what happens after a personal or professional breakthrough. Can individual success spread outward to uplift more women, families, communities and the society at large? We met four alumni who went on to get jobs, or founded businesses, that inspire whole communities.

a city for all africa • Why the Rwandan capital Kigali has a thousand reasons to consider itself one of the continent’s most important entrepreneurial hubs

VISIT RWANDA: THE CAMPAIGN THAT PUT RWANDA ON THE GLOBAL STAGE

INVESTING IN LOW-CARBON FUEL • KENYA AIRWAYS JOINS PROJECT TO ESTABLISH AFRICA’S FIRST DEDICATED SUSTAINABLE AVIATION FUEL REFINERY IN NAIROBI

CELEBRATING THE PARTNERS WHO MADE THE AVIATION MEDIA LAB POSSIBLE

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