Kenya takes stock

Foreign and local investors were hard hit when Kenya’s nascent stock market plunged in the wake of the financial crisis, but recent government efforts to woo them back with simplified regulation and enhanced systems seem to be working. Chloe Hayward reports.

MICHAEL JOSEPH, THE chief executive of Kenya’s leading mobile phone company, Safaricom, has a right to be proud. As head of the most profitable company in East Africa, Joseph directs a regional operation inextricably linked with Kenya’s bright future in the East African bloc. The Safaricom logo is on every street corner, every village store, even on half the village houses on the Nairobi-Mombasa road. The growth of Safaricom has tracked Kenya’s economic development. Ten years ago 15,000 people in Kenya owned mobiles; today that number has reached 15.4

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