Andrew White, an advertising aficionado, is a king reluctant to accept his crown. “I don’t see myself as my peers see me,” he says, waving away his industry legend. He has had a good run in advertising career spanning 34 years, from Ogilvy & Mather Kenya in 1984, then Singapore, then back to Scangroup as a shareholder until 2013 when he called it a day (with a sweet payoff) and started Creative Village Africa, a small company with big ideas in design, advertising, marketing and branding. He met JACKSON BIKO at his Lavington home-cum-office.
I always heard about you but never knew how you looked like. One time I came here and I saw you seated in the garden, holding court, with people keenly listening. I asked someone, who is that gentleman and he said with reverence, “don’t you know Andrew White?” Do you feel the weight of your name?
