On a crisp night in early 2018, a man stood in front of a bonfire. The only light was coming from the pit, illuminating his sad face, you would imagine him teary-eyed. The kindling for the fire was not wood however, it was books. About 180 of them. And he tossed them in one at a time until none were left, only a feeling of ‘I should have done better.’
As he talks about this experience among others, Jacob Aliet sits in his office, high up in a tower in downtown Nairobi overlooking Haile Selassie Avenue. He works there as an IT Project Manager. He has been in IT for virtually all of his employment career but when he is not solving code, if that is an aspect of it, he is writing and selling books, his greatest passion, he says.
