You wouldn’t believe that the Nairobi Securities Exchange once boasted of a bakery, a furniture dealer, a dry cleaner, a sack concern, a timber firm, a milling entity and a road construction company trading their shares there.
It might be inconceivable to fathom it now, but Elliot’s Bakery, whose bread once fed the Indian coolies in 1903 as they built the Uganda Railway over 100 years ago, was once listed at the bourse.