1. The Mamba Mentality 

Waceke's

A thousand Splendid Suns

1. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Kigondu's

1. Children of Blood and Bone

Finally, watch Contained Short Film by Kigondu and visit Houzzie.com for all your Domestic Manager/househelp needs!

Akinyi Oluoch is an award-winning actress, a performing arts teacher, a voice artiste, poet, emcee, singer-songwriter and a yoga trainer. She also recently graduated with a BA in Psychology.

Akinyi won Best Actress 2018 at the Sanaa Awards for her role as Sarafina in the play by the same title, was part of Too Early For Birds, The Brazen Edition ensemble and was most recently was part of the Kenyan duo that pulled off an online staging of the female Frankenstein. She has featured in multiple film productions and is the current emcee for Kwani open mic. Akinyi, Queen Akiyi, speaks Eng, Swa, Luo, and Korean.

In this episode, we host Thuita Wachira and discuss building Education Technology companies in Africa, leading teams, spirituality and the role of African Tradition in a modern/urban man's life. Brought to you by Funke Science.

Thuita (LinkedIn)  is currently the CTO of the technology company, ENEZA. (https://enezaeducation.com/). Eneza is an ed-tech company that provides curriculum aligned revision material in all subjects for primary and secondary learners on any device. Thuita previously worked at Andela, REFUNITE, SOKO and a bunch of other great technology startups. He is a family man and loves cooking. Find him on Twitter and Instagram -  @thuitaw.

Some Show notes:

- Eneza - https://enezaeducation.com/

- Indian EdTech company - https://byjus.com

- Wakadinali  - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNB-IDvDxuuiX2ghjNft5AQ

Book references: 

1. Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari

In their premier interview, the duo host Alice Kombani (@AliceKombani on Twitter) and discover nuggets of wisdom from her second chance at life, her parenting choices, love Africa, her journey as a creative and a prolific filmmaker.

With her latest feature film 'Pillow Talk' pulling crowds to the cinemas, Alice Wangui is not new to having an audience revel in her work. Her brainchild project Tuwatch Cinema was particularly aimed at doing just that: bringing locally made films to the audience. Having won coveted awards such the Best Short Film at the 2015 Zanzibar Film Festival for her film 'Angles on my face' and most recently winning the Best Newcomer Producer at the inaugural Women In Film Awards: Alice Wangui K. is definitely not a newcomer to winning at life. 

Some Show notes:

- Angles of my face - https://vimeo.com/117326537

- Pillow Talk Trailer -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnEuQ_PuUZ8&ab_channel=OldGoldFilms

- Comeback (Short film) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmsUhomgL90&t=1s&ab_channel=AliceKombani

1. Lying - Sam Harris

In this episode, the hosts (Kamande and Kigondu), dissect their reasons for the podcast title, their intentions and aspirations with the podcast and also ‘throw it back’ a bit with tales of how they met and their backgrounds.

1. Why do a podcast, and why now?