In television interviews, at lectures and in her books she would explain that the word was composed of two Japanese characters, sha meaning entertainer and gei meaning artistic.
Yet, the nation's innovators still have some catching up to do in terms of their ambition and aspiration for startups, according to the GEI.
GEI, once regarded as a progressive engineering and packaging company, has just announced its withdrawal from the list under the burden of successive write-downs and debt.
It was once the scene of cattle rustling, with the various clans – including the Matheniko, Gei and Dodoth – of the Karamojong people stealing from and ambushing one another using guns looted from armouries after the fall of Idi Amin.
Britain ranks above Germany and France, and comes fourth globally in the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEI), which profiles entrepreneurial ecosystems.
Reaching New York a couple of years after its due date -- the climax has a swarm of partygoers awaiting the first tick of the year 2000 -- "Karmen Gei" is still welcome.
WITH: Djeinaba Diop Gai (Karmen Gei), Magaye Niang (Lamine Diop), Stéphanie Biddle (Angélique), Thierno Ndiaye Dos (Old Samba), Djeynaba Niang (Ma Penda) and El Hadji N 'diaye(Massigi).
Beguiling and peppery, the berserkly picaresque "Karmen Gei" -- which starts a run today at the Film Forum in Manhattan -- is enormously likable, partly because it is aware of its own grasp of the absurd.
The lineup includes "Karmen Gei," a Senegalese version of "Carmen Paul Robesonson: Here I Stand" with Paul Robeson Jr. appearing on Sunday; and "Flag Wars," a film about the gentrification by white gays of a black area in Columbus, Ohio.
