Innovation coming from high-growth economies is mostly because of necessity. Systems are broken. Business models are not sufficient to solve the structural systemic problems. In an environment with a lot of systemic problems that present themselves mostly as entrepreneurial opportunities.

I presented at the Southern African Transport Conference (SATC 2021) a paper on a study conducted to evaluate public transport accessibility in the Harare Metropolitan Area

With my knowledge and experience building an operating cost model for a ridesharing platform, I see important elements that need to be clarified going forward.

The meandering streets in the City of Kigali indulge you through multiple layers of a city carving its unique way out of a past, a history, metamorphosing towards an end state only conceived and understood by those who in the words of Thomas Sankara “dare to invent the future”

I am currently leading a data and analytics team. As a team, we have been receiving multiple sources of data that require cleaning, analysis, and reporting. As we model the data pipelines based on the different projects we are working on. We have faced some challenges affecting how we work.

I have been mapping the different responses to travel restrictions across cities of interests with a specific focus on public transport, a key component of urban transportation. Understanding the responses is a proxy to evaluate the status and investigate alternative futures of urban transport systems.

Zimbabwe has an urban population of 5.3 [1] million projected to increase to over 6.5[2] million by 2030. Over the past two decades urbanisation driven by land barons has been characterised by infill, extension and leapfrog developments[3] disregarding city by-laws and planning frameworks.

The Transport Forum Special Interests Group (SIG) organised on the Smarter Mobility Roundtable, to explore new meanings of African mobility and what the current technology trends mean to mobility in African cities.

It is exactly a year since I joined a high growth technology startup. Truly speaking, no one is ever prepared for the fast-paced and hands-on approach experienced in the startup world. In a world where our understanding of work is changing. Reflecting on my final year of my undergraduate program.

At one of our meetups with the Young Urbanists. There was a discussion on the need to understand the influence of ideologies in design. The Young Urbanists is a platform for open dialogue, engagement and action aimed at solving historical and contemporary urban issues facing our cities.

I have been developing interests in the concept of cities as platforms. I see the inevitable impact of digital connectivity in the planning designing and management of urban systems. Over the past decade, private and public institutions have been digitizing.

The past few months have exposed me to early-stage product development of platform-based technology for transport solutions.

Cities are the greatest expression of human evolution but as is they do not work as they should or rather they don’t work for everyone. Every major city in Africa is facing challenges with providing a safe, reliable and affordable mobility system. Mobility, however, has significantly evolved over time a process mostly influenced by the ever transitioning industrial revolutions.

Informal settlements are a response to the rapid urbanisation that is currently being witnessed on the continent. Consequently because of their illegitimacy informal settlements do not have the enabling infrastructure which supports the provision of clean water and distribution of electricity among other amenities.