The Tulia Lounge at Pan Pacific Nairobi in GTC Tower is designed for conversations that require patience. Behind the dark wood panelling and beneath muted wall lights, it is a room more accustomed to conversations in instinctively lower voices and with no rush. The leather chesterfields absorb posture. I arrived with time to spare. He did not. When the co-founder and COO of Nigerian crypto exchange Busha Moyo Sodipo finally appeared, apologising with a grin about time-zone juggling and late nights, the encounter instantly shed any hint of boardroom formality. Over brief introductions and a catch-up on his latest visit, he confesses that he has been to Nairobi several times, yet barely knows it. His experience of the city, he says with a wry smile, rarely extends beyond Westlands, the fam...