I don’t know what I was expecting but I know I wasn’t expecting David Gatende, the former CEO of Davis & Shirtliff, to look younger. He is 62. He is in a polo shirt, a fedora and shorts. All colour-coordinated. The mood board is “contentment with a dash of style.”
In this cool-and-wet Nairobi weather, at the awning of Le Grenier à Pain in Riverside Drive, he glows like someone with a tiny inner sun within. Unlike most of us, David has never learned the art of growing old by playing on his pasts. He is constantly reinventing himself, in the act of throwing away his previous accomplishments and challenging the future, in this city that is always reintroducing itself to you.
