How Omari made his luck, from Eastland's tarmac pitches to Absa corner office

Absa Bank Kenya CEO Yusuf Omari.

Photo credit: Joseph Barasa | Nation Media Group

For Yusuf Omari, the journey to the CEO’s office never started with a grand career plan. He was simply a boy from Umoja spending his afternoons on Eastlands’ tarmac football pitches with an open mind.

But it was those pitches of Umoja that offered Omari his first lessons in competition, humility, friendship and persistence. Years later, those lessons would follow him into a very different arena —the boardroom of one of Kenya’s largest banks.

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