Thoughts that keep Bryon Mudhune awake at 3am - VIDEO

Don’t take my word for it, but when Byron Mudhune first walked in at the Tribe Hotel for our interview, it was a déjà vu moment: I swore I might have seen him in an Afro-cinema movie, playing the role of an African elder. “People have different perceptions of me,” he chuckles.

In his middle-aged era, he is less dominant than indomitable, his eyes darting all over the place—a kind of leitmotif of how he built his brand, MafAfrique International, an Africa and Eurasia strategy advisory group—they are furtive until they are not; he doesn’t look at you until he does.