Mohammed Hersi . A hotelier passionate about Tourism & Governance in Africa

While we commend Mombasa County and our Governor H.E Hassan Joho for cleaning up our city and closure of Kibarani we must also point out when things are not moving in the right direction. Restoration of any site and more so a former dumpsite we must engage environmentalist and we are certainly not short of…

On behalf of Kenyas tourism fraternity we would like to send our heartfelt condolences to all those who lost their loved ones . Those of us in the hotel industry we lost people known to us . Many innocent Kenyans going about their daily chores met untimely death. To the injured we pray for your…

Our city of Nairobi is slowly grinding to a halt and thanks to the traffic mess and clueless city fathers for the last many years . None other than Richard Quest of CNN noticed the snail pace of vehicular traffic which undermines all the efforts by the goverment to attract any FDI. A couple of…

The call by KQ staff through their union to strike is in very bad taste. Very many players have worked very hard for this Nairobi / New York flight . I am not suggesting that union issues are ignored , far from it . Why does the union want to make it look like the…

This week we came to learn that several Kenyans are hiding their wealth both lawfully gained and some illegally made in foreign secret accounts across several countries with the bulk domiciled in Europe. When I teach Governance I give the dogs analogy matters corruption in Africa. A dog and moreso the mongrels that you find…

#WhyILoveKenya This Sunday allow me to focus on one man Jim Nyamu ( The Elephant Man ) . He had dedicated all his life in conserving the African Elephant that is under extreme pressure poachers from bloody poachers and ivory traders. Jim has walked from Nairobi to Mombasa, Nairobi to Marsabit Moyale then London to…

This past week I spent the entire week in Nairobi attending our annual Magical Kenya Expo where Kenya Tourism Board invites leading agents from around the world to Kenya to see first hand what Kenya has to offer. This year’s event was a huge success with good quality buyers and the agents all had nothing…

The debate of Safaricom dominance does not seem to be going away. It was the first agenda item for MD Safaricom Bob Collynore on his return from lengthy sick leave to make appearance at the National Assembly ICT committe who picked cue from CCK who are hell bent to slow Safaricom growth and dominance while…

In light of ban on logging , timber merchants have now shifted their focus to the coconut tree. It takes decades for a coconut tree to grow to maturity. Fact is that most of the trees along the Kenya Coast were planted way before independence while our ethos is also weak when it comes to…

Open Letter To Students Burning schools Dear Student, This might come as surprise but you really are not the first human to “dorn” the title “student” in Kenya. Let me point out that at some point in our lives we were also 14 and 15 years old. Now as you exercise your stupidity by burning…