What however raised my antennae was a piece on one Polycarp Igathe. My first contact with the fellow was when I was in college. He had asked a bunch of AIESECers to turn up to be in some Kenya Airways ad. So several dudes and dudettes (including yours truly) from several campuses turned up at the University of Nairobi where we were shuttled of to the JKIA to act in a KQ ad. This was my first contact with the advertising industry. Our role in the ad was to be in a crowd scene. When the dude in charge asked us to wave enthusiastically, I waved my hand so hard that you would think that I was being offered a princely sum. And when they gave me my 500/= for my time I was rather pleased for that was not a bad figure to give a student in the 90's.

In the intermittent years, Polycarp went on to become one of the hottest young executives in Kenya's corporate scene until the East African Breweries brought him on board to sell that evil juice (alcohol!) that they sell that we all love so much. Unfortunately, his alcohol selling career was cut short by number 5776 (long story) and he left for Haco.

The man had recently disappeared from the radar until I read May's issue of Sokoni. I guess that selling alcohol can be as addictive as drinking it as the man is now General Manager of Wines of the world a firm that sells wine from all over the place. We expect the dude to bring the same enthusiasm that he brought to making us drinking huge amounts of Pilsner Ice. And like the bright executive that he is, he has already started by sponsoring the upcoming AIESEC dinner. Get them while they are still young eh?

>> Related links
:: Wines of the world
:: AIESEC dinner sponsored by Wines of the World
:: Buying wine in Woolmatt
:: Haco
:: East African Breweries

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