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Did you know Maanzoni is a Kamba word meaning beginning? The beginning of a long-lasting relationship with the KAMBA.

680 Hotel sold to Maanzoni in a Sh 1.2bn Deal

The billionaire owner of 680 Hotel in Nairobi’s city centre has sold the three star-facility to Machakos-based Maanzoni lodges for an estimated Sh1.2 billion, underlining the deal-making in Kenya’s hospitality sector.

Maanzoni is associated with businessman Chris Musau who in 2019 announced plans to build an 11-storey 300-bed hotel with luxurious residential facilities in Machakos town.

This is just ‘the beginning. Maanzoni.

Join Maanzoni for lunch at 3,000 Ksh for adults and 1,500 Ksh for kids.
Maanzoni is located along Mombasa Road in the Lukenya area and 45 mins drive from the Nairobi CBD.

Experience the Kamba Spirit. (She’s not EVIL!)

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The future is in cabins.

Living in a small cabin in the woods seems like a fantasy. Imagine the Ngong forest. Imagine buying land deep in the forest. Imagine building a cabin, and living with monkeys and other wild animals.

That’s what IPIM does. The International Properties and Investment Managers will get your land issues sorted…

Try sampling ‘Favour Gardens’.

AYA News

Living in a small cabin in the woods seems like a fantasy (again). It’s one of those things that many people dream about but only a few achieve. In recent years, more people are living off-grid in tiny homes, but that could be a passing fad. 

We’ve heard enough about tiny homes, but not enough about small cabins. The smallest cabins measure around 100 to 400 square feet, but bigger cabins are often labelled as being “small.”

For instance, the Søgne Cabin is a modest structure on a spectacular site. Designed as a weekend retreat for an Oslo-based couple, the 100 sq m coastal cabin had to abide by strict laws restricting excessive development on Norway’s waterfront. Well, Kenya can be Oslo.

Set on a slope overlooking an island-strewn bay on Norway’s southern coast, the cabin is built and clad in oak. A new concrete foundation contains a pool and a glass-walled terrace opening off the main living spaces. The bedrooms are contained in a pitched roof structure that is raised up above the rocky landscape on slender concrete columns, while steps lead down to a private bathing platform on the edge of the water. 

What Biology Enables, Culture Forbids

“From a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural.”

AYA Tiny Thought

• "Most successful people are just an anxiety disorder harnessed for productivity.”

• "We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror."

• The longer the time frame for results, the less you need intensity and the more you need consistency. Consistency isn't simply willpower, which comes and goes. Consistency is doing it when you don't feel like doing it. If you want advantageous divergence, you have to do the things that matter on your best day and your worst day.

What happened in the news this week?

• Commonwealth Games: Shujaa Suffer Brutal Loss To Scotland In Fifth Place Semi

• The Evolution of Darwin: Liverpool beat Manchester City 3-1 in the Community Shield this Saturday thanks to goals from Trent Alexander-Arnold, Mohamed Salah and Darwin Nunez.

• We Warn You Facebook: Kenya orders Meta's Facebook to tackle hate speech or face suspension

• Kenyan Elections Just a Week Away: A Game of Psychology. A House of Cards. Someone will win. Someone will lose. It doesn't matter who you support. We are one. We hustle together. We suffer together. We are one. All the best to the contestants. May the best win. And may you understand that you cannot all win. Elections come and go, but we will always remain.

• Working from Home is a Fluke, Says Elon Musk: Elon Musk declares an end to remote working at Tesla. Tesla's boss has ordered staff to return to the office full-time, declaring that working remotely is no longer acceptable. Elon thinks people working from home don’t actually work. What do you think?

  “You are receiving this email because there is no record of you using your badge to enter a Tesla facility on at least 16 days over the 30-day period ending on June 28.”

• UNICORNS: CBK orders banks to close Flutterwave, Chipper Cash accounts

• CLIMATE CHANGE: ‘Soon it will be unrecognizable’: Total Climate meltdown Cannot Be Stopped, Says Expert… Blistering heatwaves are just the start. We must accept how bad things are before we can head off global catastrophe, according to a leading UK scientist.

• NAIROBI GIN: Creative Nairobi gin makers find a market beyond Kenya. At a funky brewery in Nairobi’s Baba Dogo, alcohol jets out, flavoured with mango-ginger and pineapple-mint. The alcohol content in this drink is eight per cent ABV (alcohol by volume). The fruits in it are locally sourced; pineapples from Kisii, mint from a farmer in Thika, mangos of the apple variety favoured because of their sweetness from Meru and hibiscus.

• READY-COOL-ARE-US: Nairobi Woman Uses Husband’s Entire Savings to Surprise Him at Airport

Picture of the Week

Mid-life Crisis Refresh

A mid-life refresh ensures the flagship Rolls-Royce Phantom Series II is at the top of its game, the last hurrah for traditional engines before an electrified future.

There are a few places in the world as insulated from reality as the back seat of a Rolls-Royce Phantom. For generations, the cossetting luxury of the Phantom’s interior has provided refuge from the travails of the real world, presumably giving its lucky owners the restorative fillip they need to carry on with their arduous wealth acquisition. For the rest of us, the imperious sight of a Phantom remains the most effective visual shorthand for a certain kind of success. 

The AYA is produced by Newsletter Editor the Solanale.

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