Angela Kinyua walks in wielding her smile as her delicate scimitar, first to disarm then to dislodge. She has you at hello, and she has you at goodbye. But to carry a certain warmth, one must have felt a certain kind of cold—and Angela, the Montgomery Group East Africa Managing Director, has stared directly into the sun herself.
It is how she developed her stoicism, from the books she reads—Meditations by Marcus Aurelius—from the things that have happened to her, losing her father. “Memento Mori,” she says. “Remember you must die.” Because in the midst of life, we are in death.
