For what it’s worth, my crazy ideas will probably never reach the decision-making room. And even if they do, nobody will care.
But after visiting 71 countries and 110 cities, one thing became obvious: great cities aren’t built by governments. They’re built by millions of small private decisions made by citizens, entrepreneurs, investors, and builders.
The government’s role is simply to create order, trust, and predictability.
Nairobi already has the talent, capital, ambition, weather, location, and energy. The ingredients are here.
We don’t have a resource problem. We have an execution problem.