Good posts here.

@ Rollout, this is typical of Wazua. While you may have an impressive CV, be reminded that this forum has great minds too. Very successful people with great CV's as well. When you approach the forum with an imposing personality, you ca be assured to receive the treatment you have received. If anything, we have see many people return from "Stato" with nothing except the American accent. We have seen many others who came back quietly but with great and impressive CV's and worthy millions of Kenya shillings. That a side, do not loose site of what you aspire to achieve. However, as mentioned in one of the posts, there was no need to start your introduction the way you did" Neither job hunting nor searching for a wife". The introduction alone says so much of the typical you.

Guys,first answer the greeting before anything else.....................
Hello Rollout.Welcome to Kenya after 10 years away from home.This ten years have been great.When you left my grandmother had no way of communicating other than me visiting her.Now she owns a kabambe and knows a thing or two about greenhouse farming and mpesing.

When you left,we were on the verge of making history by ending a dynasty in kenya.We ended that and we are now in the process of RE-creating a new one.I do not know if you were present among the thousands of people present for your president's inaguration,or whether you even voted,but in kenya i have had the chance of having my pinky coloured (sometimes in iremovable ink) so many times without any tangible change and attended so many 'inagurations' that i know my way around streets where teargas does not reach.

But all is well my dear brother.In 10 years,we have managed to grow our GDP by comendeable rates,this according to government reports.The same government reports that vehemently deny that the poor are becoming poorer each passing day.

You are not looking for a wife nor a job.Pity.....Even if you are not looking for one,just pretend you are.It matters to look at prospects you might change your mind and end up with a gachugwa,as for the job,you might be creating yourself a chance to be an ambassador in the next government depending on who you talk to.

I do not know about investments so much,mine was to welcome you back home.

P/S bring me a bugger from McDonalds,or do they sell fries?

yours trully,
bendi.

@ Alma...yes merger at that level could also be a good strategy.
@ Fantony... my main interest is learning from some people back there and having a take away, if that will be about real estate then thats great, but in overall I just want to learn more about the general business soundness of investing in Kenya, the risk of investing in some of these developing countries is somehow wrongly estimated and learning is the first part.
@ Luttz I know Kenya and Wazua have great minds, but I don't think great minds are stupidly arrogant, I have interacted with few of the smartest people and if anyone does that you can learn alot from them espacially on how much they try to learn and connect with people who can help them, I am not here to help anyone, I am not here to help USA or Kenya, I am here to help myself it is upto anyone to judge if it is a win win situition, If in the process of me trying to help myself you benefit thats great. A few days ago I connected with a Friend from a few years ago, He is 26yrs one of the smartest Kenyan Harvard undergra and currently finishing Oxford Phd what I was interested is his research project and the potential of a business opportunity out of his project and what he was interested is how he can finance his project which is based in a remote village in Uganda, he didn't feel threaten by me and I didn't feel threaten by him, that is how I think we should relate, you're stupid if you beat you chest because you have Ksh 1 million, thats is pocket change to alot of people, lower the pride it is not gonna get you anywhere.Mr Luttz, this doesnt apply to you but to people lik Erifloss

@ Erifloss... you remind me of those kids back in school who always were too eager to prove someone wrong instead of eager to learn, I want to tell you that, you probably think you know alot about the US or US companies but until you're there or you're intimately involve with dealings with those companies they're assesment that you cannot make, Like I cannot come here and make assesment about equity bank or Safaricom, I can make overal assesment but I cannot act like I know them that much. I noticed that you listed the companies that went down in USA and compared to the companies that came up in Kenya, that is actually wrong in the first place, you compare success with success, down with down and just to get the record straight the losses that AIG, cITI, FREDDI, FENNIE... in 2010 adds to $108 billion, the profit that fortune 100 companies in 2010 is $325 billion.

@bird_man, my initial thought about wazua was that it is potentially a place where the're young, smart and creative people eager to progress, I didn't think this place could turn out to be a "I am better than you even if you're in a developed country" environment. I have a Linkedln account but you'll be surprise how many people actually check the yahoo, gmail accounts leave alone track the Linkedln.
Just to correct you, nobody is so smart or so educated and by the way a few people have or even know Kenya from the business perspective,wallstreet IB are only interested in offering advisory services to countries like kenya but no one want to invest money!

Anyway, now I know how this place is!

I use a matatu. Hope that qualifies as driven.
How about sinking some of those dollars into paka. Being an acquisition and merger specialist, go ahead and have Kengen acquire Eveready so that Kenya gets more power.