True leaders are clearly those that leave entities better than they found them

A man stands on the front of Flipflopi, the first dhow boat made entirely of recycled plastic during its launch ceremony on the island of Lamu, Kenya on September 15, 2018. PHOTO | REUTERS

There are two people in my life whom I look up to as fathers. One of them saw an opportunity in 1974 to buy huge tracts of land for very little. This land was in the forest.

It was so far away that going there was like travelling out of town. People made fun of him that he had lost it. Why would anyone in their right senses go out and buy so much land in a place that seemed to have been forsaken by intelligent people?