I write in two genres that rarely share a shelf: nonfiction about real estate and investment, and fiction rooted in East Africa.
For over twelve years I've led the real estate advisory and property management firm I founded in 2014, after studying property and facilities management at university. What I enjoy most has never really changed: connecting people, and chasing the next thing worth knowing.
My way of seeing the world took shape early, in colonial-era high school classrooms and across a life lived in Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, Atlanta, and now Calgary. Walking through ancient places like Egypt, I felt how much the past still presses on the present, and that fascination runs through everything I write.
My nonfiction begins with The Tanzanian Diaspora Property Handbook, a practical guide for anyone buying property across borders. My fiction, including The Berlin Lines and Hour of the Gentiles: The Stone Town Seal, sets East African places and history against the larger questions of power and faith.
I'm a member of the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM) and the U.S. Green Building Council, serve as a seasonal peer reviewer for Greenbuild and AfRES, and am working toward the Certified Property Manager (CPM) designation through the Real Estate Institute of Canada (REIC).
Away from work, I read widely, watch far too many films, and get outdoors whenever the weather allows, hiking the trails and cycling the Bow River pathways. I'm a Christian and an incurable theology nerd, never far from whatever new gadget has caught my eye. I'm a husband and a father of two daughters and two sons, and home is Calgary, where I write, research, advise, and still can't quite believe the Rocky Mountains are on my doorstep.
