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Forget Bungee Jumping, Real Thrill-Seekers Join Logistics
The term “adrenaline junkie” has been used to define those rare individuals who, bored with tedium of ordinary life, seek ever more imaginative ways to entertain, shock or even scare themselves. We in the logistics industry are well familiar with this term: it...
Learning How to Walk: The Logistics Industry in Africa
The logistics industry can be explained using a model of the human body: the delivery crews would be the “hands”, dispatch headquarters the “nerve centre” and so on. In this case, the “spine” that supports the industry would be infrastructure. Proceeding with this...
Addressing the Sweaty Elephant in the Room
While the sweltering heat of an African afternoon may have become commonplace and bearable to the continent’s inhabitants, we in the logistics industry are far more likely to fret over a thermostat set one degree below the recommended level. While people are aware...
Step Aside Clarke Kent, We’re on It!
Over the past few decades, corporate entities worldwide have been seized with the desire to do good for goodness' sake, professionally referred to as “Corporate Social Responsibility” (CSR). There exist varying motivations for donning the cape of community enrichment:...
Saving the Logistics Industry From Captain Jack Sparrow
In the early 2000s, the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise hit our screens, flooding our collective conscious with images of swashbuckling pirates sailing the high seas in search of adventure. As the world fawned over this reimagining of these seafaring heroes,...
Have eco-friendly businesses gone the ‘Gangnman Style’ way?
Can you recall the last time you heard the massively popular “Gangnam Style” on the radio? I doubt it. Human interest is fickle and trends tend to come and go. Such is the fate that seems to have befallen the once popular Green Movement. Thankfully, while...
To Buy or Not to Buy: Online Shopping in the Age of Nigerian Princes
So you’ve found your fantasy smart phone on sale online, at a price that will let you get it two months earlier than planned. Even as you envision impressing your nerdy-tech colleagues with your new Galaxy Lumia Expensive, you find yourself hesitant to commit to an...
The Tale of Standard Gauge Railways
Before the 19th century and colonialism, Syokimau, a Kenyan prophetess shared a vision she had. She foretold of a pale-skinned man who chirps like a bird that will come riding on an iron snake with legs of a centipede and have fire in his pockets (engine). The...
Car Import Duty: How KRA calculates it
Nobody likes paying taxes. If we had our own way, we wouldn’t be paying any. But we have to. They keep the government coffers well greased allowing us to afford Chinese contractors to build almost-perfect roads and soon-to-be railroads. While we wait for the standard...