“I met Sanusi Lamido, the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, when I was working as an investment banker, and he had come to speak to some of our clients in our London office. He was wearing a bow tie, and all these mzungus [white people] were hanging on to every word he said, and he was such a smart guy, and I thought, wow, maybe if I wear a bow tie I will become half as brilliant as this guy,” he says.
Twenty years later, the bow tie has been the, erm, bow to every C-suite office he has occupied. The life he is living now is far from the antecedents of his childhood in Jamhuri Estate and high school at Lenana School, which he joined because all the rugby greats seemed to come from Lenana.
