Haki Yetu!
I am taking a class in International Financial Markets for my MBA this semester and on the introductory class, the lecturer mentioned a book that had profoundly changed his thinking about current affairs and that he encouraged us to read. Being the book magnet that I am, I needed no further encouragement and come Saturday morning, I had the perfect excuse to roam the bookshops looking for the title – it certainly helped that it was strange: “The World is Flat – Thomas L. Friedman” You must be wondering. . . as I was when the lecturer spoke briefly about the contents of the book in class. It is sub-titled “The Globalized World in the Twenty-First Century” and it has some startling discoveries especially for a Kenyan who has grown used to hearing the masses cry out “Haki Yetu!”, backed by very caring and ‘voter-conscious’ politicians. The first chapter begins by tackling the issue of how “out-sourcing” and “off-shoring” changed the face of jobs in the United States, India and ...