The Village Banker

This is a guest post by Rebecca Wanjiku, a leading tech journalist, blogger and a burgeoning finance person. Read her insightful blog here, and follow her on Twitter. Wanjiku blogs about her conversation with The Village Banker. Enjoy! If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. When you think of a Shylock, who comes to mind? The person who lends you money…

kellie May 14, 2012 4 min read

The 50,000 bob problem: Part 2, pricing our desires

In Part 1 of the 50,000 dollar problem, we looked at my techie friend’s dilemma. He’d come across Kshs 50,000, and was looking to make “good” and certain returns in a year, and since I wasn’t offering him any viable solutions, he was going to buy the iPad2 instead. My advice to him was to take a SACCO loan to pay for his gadget. Why…

kellie April 24, 2012 8 min read