Wazo la Jina Langu Collective halikutoka Nadia peke yake.
Wambui Karanja wa Kariobangi leather workshop ndiye alisema:
“Tumekaa tukingoja Savanna Crown ijirekebishe.
Hatuwezi kula investigation.”
Workshop yake ilikuwa na workers kumi na moja. Orders za Savanna Crown zilisimama. Rent, wages na leather stock zilikuwa bado.
Mama Naserian pia alikuwa na members wanaohitaji income.
Former Savanna Crown employees watano walikuwa suspended au resigned.
Nadia alikuwa na operations experience, lakini personal account yake bado under partial review na reputation yake haijarudi full.
Meeting ya kwanza ilifanyika Kariobangi workshop.
Harufu ya leather, glue na machine oil.
Wambui aliweka rule:
“Hapa hakuna CEO mpaka tuelewe nani analeta nini.”
Nadia akakubali.
Participants:
- Enkare cooperative representatives. - Wambui workshop. - Two textile groups. - Former product developer. - Former logistics officer. - Nadia. - Linet as legal adviser. - Independent accountant.
Name suggestions zilikuwa nyingi.
**Urithi Halisi.**
Mama Naserian akakataa.
“Urithi si product tu.”
**Mikono Kenya.**
Wambui akasema hands without names is same problem.
Nadia akapendekeza:
**Jina Langu Collective.**
My Name.
People wakakubali principle, si immediately company name.
Debate ya ownership ilikuwa ngumu.
Nadia alileta market relationships, product development, operations na potential brand archive rights.
Enkare ilileta licensed motifs and maker network.
Wambui alileta workshop, machines and workers.
Former staff walileta skills, si Savanna Crown confidential files.
Accountant alionya:
“Skills can be valued as labour, not stolen trade secrets.”
Nadia alitaka asilimia thelathini.
Wambui akasema:
“Kwa nini?”
“Nitaongoza fundraising, sales, operations na brand build.”
“Salary for work.
Shares for capital and risk.”
Nadia alisikia Farah’s voice.
Salary vs ownership.
Akapunguza demand.
Final proposal:
- Enkare federation and participating cooperatives 30%; - production workshops 25%; - employee pool 20%; - Nadia 15%; - future investors maximum 10% initially, non-controlling; - no single party over 30%; - pattern licences separate from equity; - maker royalties per product; - workers wages separate from dividends; - archive rights not transferred without trust approval; - reserved matters require supermajority; - exit and buyback formula; - public attribution mandatory; - child labour prohibition and traceable subcontractors.
Mama Naserian alisema:
“Why Nadia 15?”
Nadia akaeleza cash, months unpaid work, client development and operational IP created outside Savanna Crown after termination.
Wambui akasema 12.
Negotiation ikafika 13.5 with vesting over three years. If Nadia leaves early, unvested shares return pool.
Nadia hakupenda.
Lakini akakubali.
Hakuwa anataka repeat Kelvin ownership ambayo wengine work, one face controls.
Title ya Nadia:
**Interim Managing Director — 12 months, renewable by board.**
Si founder-for-life.
Board chair first year: Wambui.
Treasurer: Enkare nominee.
Employee representative elected.
Independent governance seat.
Nadia alihisi strange.
Company ilikuwa idea ambayo story media itaiita yake.
Lakini chair hakuwa yeye.
Hiyo ilikuwa test ya principles.
Brand rules:
Kila product card iwe na:
- product designer/team; - maker group; - motif source and licence; - material origin; - repair instructions; - royalty percentage? Exact amount maybe internal but QR can show contribution category. - no generic “tribal” wording.
Former product developer alisema cards zitakuwa long.
Nadia akasema:
“Customer anaweza kusoma or not.
Names remain.”
Waka-register entity.
Bank ilitaka proof Nadia’s fraud case status.
Linet akatoa no-charge record and disputed allegations statement. Bank approved account with enhanced monitoring.
Nadia hakupenda stigma, lakini accepted.
First capital ilitoka member contributions, small chama loan na pre-order ya local boutique ambayo iliamini team.
Hakuna secret billionaire.
Hakuna Baobab cheque.
Farah alisema conflict; Baobab cannot fund while Savanna Crown due diligence active.
Nadia akasema:
“Good.”
Wambui akamwangalia.
“You say good lakini face yako inasema umeumia.”
“Both.”
Product ya kwanza haikuwa expensive Urithi bag.
Ilikuwa travel document wallet, leather locally sourced, simple bead strip licensed, price accessible compared to luxury line.
Name:
**Jina 01.**
Maker names zilikuwa inside card na online.
Mercy alipost:
**Imitation is the sincerest confession.**
Kelvin legal ilituma cease-and-desist, ikidai Nadia anatumia Savanna Crown confidential supplier knowledge.
Linet akajibu:
- no Savanna Crown design used; - suppliers are independent businesses; - general skills not owned by employer; - any specific trade secret must be identified; - Nadia will comply with lawful confidentiality but not non-compete that does not exist.
Kelvin hakutaja secret exact.
Jina Langu website ikaenda live.
Orders first day: twenty-seven.
Si viral millions.
Lakini kila order ililipwa.
Kila maker alikuwa na jina.
Nadia alishika first printed card.
**Designed by Jina Langu product team. Made by Wambui Leather Workshop. Bead strip by Enkare Unit 3 under licence ENK-COM-12.**
Chini:
**Jina langu si decoration.**
Nadia alitabasamu.
Harusi ilimfukuza kwenye stage.
Workshop ilimpa table ambayo hakukaa peke yake.
Kabla registration, conflict kubwa ilitokea kuhusu name ya Grace.
Nadia alitaka product line moja iitwe **Grace Route**.
Mama Naserian akakataa.
“Grace alikuwa mtu. Si kila product iwe memorial kabla archive work.”
Nadia alihisi hurt.
“Alijenga route.”
“Then archive imuite.
Bag isiwe shortcut ya grief.”
Wambui aka-support.
“Brand inaweza kutumia dead women kutengeneza emotion kama Savanna Crown.”
Nadia alikasirika siku hiyo na kuondoka meeting mapema.
Usiku, alisoma minutes.
Chair record ilisema:
**Interim MD left after disagreement. Meeting continued. No decision taken.**
Company haikusimama kwa sababu Nadia ameondoka.
Hilo lilimuuma ego.
Kesho yake, aliomba msamaha.
“Nilikuwa nataka Mama aonekane.”
Mama Naserian akasema:
“Aonekane kwanza kama mtu, si collection.”
Wakaamua Grace name itumike kwenye historical archive, training scholarship and supplier-route programme only after family and beneficiary consent. Products zingepewa names zisizomiliki mtu.
Nadia alijifunza first lesson ya new entity: kutokuwa Kelvin hakuji automatically.
Power inaweza kurudi kwa njia ya grief, expertise au followers.
Board iliweka rule nyingine:
Managing director cannot approve a product named after personal relative without independent review.
Nadia akasign.
First twenty-seven orders zilitengeneza problem ya delivery. Website ilikuwa imeonyesha siku saba, workshop capacity ilikuwa pieces kumi na mbili kwa week.
Wambui akasema:
“Nani aliweka seven?”
Nadia akainua mkono.
“Nilifikiri process faster.”
“Old CEO disease.”
Watu wakacheka, lakini Nadia akasikia.
Wakawatumia customers message:
- explain actual timeline; - option ya refund; - no false “high demand” excuse; - revised production calendar.
Customers watatu walirefund.
Twenty-four walibaki.
Jina Langu ilipoteza sales kidogo, ikapata trust.
Table mpya haikuwa ya Nadia peke yake.
Na kila mtu aliweza kugonga ikiwa estimate yake ilikuwa uongo.
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