OK, so there weren’t that many battles fought. Compared to the great Kencell/Safaricom skirmishes earlier this decade (rememebr Congested/Connected?), all other subsequent market fights have been half-hearted scuffles. Still, it was worth noting the brief face-off between Barclays and Standard Chartered. When selling its current account packages, Barclays offered Kenya ‘A Bouquet’, only for StanChart to counter with the tongue-in-cheek query, ‘Why settle for a bouquet when you can have a whole garden’. Just when the mass audience was whetted for epic battle, both sides settled for sound judgment and denied us the entertainment.

Oh well … next time maybe.