OBBO: No Sankara, Collymore was still larger than life

Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore left a rich legacy. He died on July 1, 2019 after a long battle with cancer: Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. FILE PHOTO | NMG

When Kenyan telco giant Safaricom’s CEO Bob Collymore died at the start of July, a pall of grief settled on Kenya – at least Nairobi – like one that had rarely been witnessed.

Safaricom, its shortcomings for which it is regularly panned on social media notwithstanding, seems to have grown into something bigger than a national institution – just that we hadn’t cottoned on to it yet.