The work that isn't billed for.
Books for children, platforms for people who would otherwise go unrecorded, and a life kept deliberately wide — cycling, golf, family, the open road.
“No African excellence should die unwitnessed.”
What is not witnessed is not funded, not copied and not trusted. That is not sentiment — it is economics. It is why the awards platforms exist, why the books exist, and why the stories get told while the people in them are still alive to hear them.
Fifty-five, and still rising.
Golf at sunrise. The open road. The reading chair. The family, and the recognitions collected along the way.
At fifty-five I am not slowing down. I am rising — with purpose, courage, and a vision to transform Africa.
What we change lives on. That is the argument behind the books, behind the platforms, and behind whatever the next thirty years turn out to be.
Children's books, written to the Sustainable Development Goals.
UN-recognised author
Children's books aligned to the SDGs and backed by UNICEF — written so that the ideas behind clean energy, clean water and shared responsibility arrive early, in a language a child accepts.
Why books, from an infrastructure adviser
Adoption is a belief problem before it is an engineering one. A generation that grows up understanding why a meter, a grid or a borehole matters becomes the generation that pays for it, protects it and expects it to work.
The range is the point.
Thirty years of convening rooms works better when the person convening them has a life outside the room.
The professional record sits next door.
Thirty years across energy, water, pensions and trade — and six ways to put it to work.