Coffee Pump Podcast

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Konnichiwa! On this episode I sit down with Peter Ochino, natural bodybuilder, trainer and the man behind Omena 6000. At 43 he competed against men half his age and men on steroids, while being summoned to a police station two weeks out from the show. Our longest episode yet, and it earns every minute. Thank you Collins for setting this one up. We talk about: - Losing 27 kilos in three months with...

Konnichiwa Fam, On this episode I sit down with Andrew Owens of NAPAfrica and Teraco, recorded on site at AfPIF in Kigali. Andrew joined Teraco as employee number five in 2008 and helped build NAPAfrica into the largest internet exchange on the continent. We are part of sister companies and have run into each other for years without ever properly sitting down, so this was a long time coming. He is...

Konnichiwa Fam, On this episode I sit down with Malcolm "MJO" Okubo. At 25 he co-owns some of Nairobi's biggest nightlife spots, works in fintech at Honeycoin, and runs the MJO Living ​⁠ on YouTube. Before any of that he was trading forex at 20, wrapping cars, importing routers through COVID and selling shawarma at a car wash. I enjoyed this one a lot. He is sharp, he is honest about the parts tha...

Konnichiwa, Ben is one of the first people I met in this industry and has been a friend ever since. He got an E in computer studies and barely got into university. He now leads Meta's edge strategy for Africa, the infrastructure that decides how fast WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook load on this continent, and he is the reason Meta landed in Mombasa before Nairobi. This is his first ever podcast!...

Konnichiwa, Nurani Nimpuno has been shaping the internet for 25 years and most people have never heard of her. Born in Sweden to Dutch Indonesian parents, she got into tech because she liked computer games, handed out IP addresses at RIPE NCC before she knew what Unix was, spent years at APNIC and Netnod, chaired Euro-IX, sat on the team that moved internet governance out of US government hands, a...

Konnichiwa, Michael Marras is a former Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer turned health and performance coach, and he runs Fit Fatherhood. The whole idea behind it is that looking after yourself is not vanity, it is responsibility. Strong in the body, disciplined in the mind, present for the people who depend on you and grounded in something bigger, so you can lead your family with courage, hum...

Konnichiwa, This one comes to you from Kigali, recorded at AfPIF in August with Robert Nkeramugaba, or Bob, as everyone calls him. Bob is a system architect at Broadband Systems Corporation and has been there ten years. Outside the day job he produces music, paints, and writes poetry. We first met in Kigali back in 2021 at a point where we were both going through it, and this is the first time we...

Hello beautiful people! Welcome to the caffeinated debrief where we catch up on the weekly news that caught our eye. From stocks to invest in to news around pop culture, we talk about everything trending that week. YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/live/OWqQwnQMFtI?si=pkPddgWsiHDkXVw- Get your tickets for the Couch Connect x Coffee Pump Live Event: https://tikko.co.ke/event/0a16ec18-fa65-440e-...

Hello beautiful people! Welcome to the caffeinated debrief where we catch up on the weekly news that caught our eye. From stocks to invest in to news around pop culture, we talk about everything trending that week. YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/live/2levO3xMiEA?si=4bd1VkAoXEOGvXIp Get your tickets for the Couch Connect x Coffee Pump Live Event: https://tikko.co.ke/event/0a16ec18-fa65-440e-...

Hello beautiful people! Let’s catch up on the weekly news over a cup of coffee. From politics to gaming and everything in between. Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/live/t_gWuKN6fME?si=onMXDRBwQXRv1WER Get your tickets for the Couch Connect x Coffee Pump Live Event: https://tikko.co.ke/event/0a16ec18-fa65-440e-8004-0211164a3f3f Live Sponsored By Fastbird Reach out to them on WhatsApp: +254 727...

Konnichiwa Fam, Everyone I've had on this series kept saying the same name, so we closed AfPIF Kigali with Brian Munyao Longwe. Before he helped bring the internet to Kenya he was washing mitumba shirts and selling them out of a briefcase in Nairobi offices, and he got his first tech job by knocking on every door from ABC Place to town until someone said yes. He talks openly about burnout, the sha...

Konnichiwa, Shikoli Makatiani was Africa Online's first employee. He ran the servers that carried Kenya's first emails from under his bed in Boston, dropped out of college at 20 to go set up the internet in Abidjan, and came back to build the security monitoring that sat on KIXP watching people try to hack their way into the country. Now he's founding CTO at Akili AI putting AI agents inside Kenya...

Konnichiwa Fam, Abdel Kader Traoré is one of the sales guys I look up to in this industry, and this is the first time I've heard his full story. He started as a telecom engineer building 2G networks in Côte d'Ivoire, designed the radio network for Algeria, built the first 10 gig backbone in France, then did an MBA so he could get closer to the people making the decisions. Now he runs Middle East a...

Konnichiwa, Recorded live at AfPIF 2026 in Kigali. Said Alli is the Executive Chairman and CEO of MoveOn Telecoms, and he got there by accident. He wanted to work in aviation, ended up at Makerere studying IT, and has spent the last two decades building networks across East Africa. Six Telecoms, Raha, Green Telecom in Tanzania, and now a business connecting people through Starlink in places fibre...

Konnichiwa, Ogato is back before he heads home to Canada, and we start with him reacting to the GTA 6 trailer for the first time, which turns into a full history of Rockstar. From there it goes where it always does with him: whether short men are angrier, why private schools charge you a fortune for the same teacher as the public school down the road, and what actually happens to your DNA as you g...

Konnichiwa Recorded live at AfPIF 2026 in Kigali. Frank Habicht was our first guest of the week, and his story is not what you'd expect from a man who runs Tanzania's internet exchange. He grew up in East Germany, went to Tanzania in 1998 for a student conference, met his wife because she complained about his handwriting, and never really left. Twenty years later he's still there, and he's spent m...

Konnichiwa Fam, On this episode Andrew Kibe and Emmanuel Kisiangani of ​⁠ come through. I spend two hours as the only married man in the room, which Kibe does not let go of for a second. We get into why Kibe says every married man is done, what Kigali showed us about how a country can actually work, why he feels the 2027 elections end in violence, and the courtroom reality of child support that no...

Konnichiwa, We recorded this episode at AfPIF 2026 in Kigali, and my guest is Isabel Odida, better known as Izzy, Peering Manager at Gcore and VP of Peering DB. She's Ugandan, based in Dubai, and looks after peering strategy across more than 210 points of presence globally. She also insists her story isn't that interesting, which you'll see is nonsense about four minutes in. We get into: – What a...

Konnichiwa Fam, Fareed Khimani is back, and this one goes from a sin tax nobody can explain to a conversation about identity that I wasn't ready for. He's working inside government now doing comms for the Ministry of Agriculture, he's rebranding Kenyan tea, and he leaves for Karachi this month to direct a documentary on brain health. Then, near the end, he turned it around on me and asked who I ac...

Konnichiwa, On this episode Emmanuel Kisiangani and Bashir Halaiki come through and we go from totally unserious to uncomfortably honest. We get into what donor money actually funds, why the beggar on the roundabout will still be there next year, and then the part I didn't plan on saying out loud: the people closest to me have told me to shut this podcast down. We talk about: – Mortal Kombat for p...

Konnichiwa Fam, On this episode Joab Ogato from ​⁠The Couch Connect Podcast comes through, and it turns into one of the most chaotic conversations we've had. He's an assistant professor at McMaster working on his second PhD in regenerative medicine, he sold every stock in his name to buy SpaceX on day one, and he retires in 2035 whether the numbers work or not. We also spent a good half hour argui...

Konnichiwa! On this episode I sit down with Moses Kemibaro, one of the people who actually built Kenya's internet industry. He got his first computer at 11, was selling internet connections in Mombasa before most people knew what it was, started what became OLX in East Africa, and got hired by a global company purely off the strength of his blog. We also get into the morning he opened his laptop t...

Konnichiwa Fam, On this episode Odanga Madung comes back and brings Darius Okolla, head political economist at Odipo Dev, and we spend most of it on the research nobody else in Kenya is doing. They spent a year inside the goon ecosystem, and what they found is that violence here is now a product with a demand side, a supply side, middlemen and a pricing structure. We also get into why Kenya was on...

Konnichiwa Fam, On this episode, Eric Mutiso of ​⁠ Every Other Time With Eric and I finally do a proper one-on-one in the studio, and it goes everywhere. We start with the Andrew Tate documentary and what unchecked influence actually costs, get into celebrity sacrifices and selling your soul, then spend a good chunk on the real stuff: why property in Nairobi doesn't add up for guys our age and wha...