Africa’s digital trust infrastructure company title-sponsors Evans Kavisi and Absalom Aswani as they take on the world’s toughest rally — 12- 15 March 2026
TendaWorld, Kenya’s digital trust infrastructure company, today announced its title sponsorship of rally duo Evans Kavisi and Absalom Aswani for the 2026 WRC Safari Rally. The announcement, made at a media event at Merchant Square, Riverside Drive, marks a landmark moment: the first time a homegrown Kenyan technology company has served as title sponsor for a national WRC Safari Rally team.
The Safari Rally — broadcast to audiences across more than 150 countries and one of the most demanding events on the global motorsport calendar — runs across Kenya’s unforgiving terrain from 12 to 15 March 2026. For TendaWorld, the timing is deliberate: as the company scales enterprise contracts and digital agreement infrastructure across East Africa, the sponsorship places a Kenyan technology brand at the centre of the country’s highest-profile international sporting event.
“Africa doesn’t have a trust problem. It has a proof problem. Signatures get lost. Identity takes days. Records disappear. We built TendaWorld to end that. Evans and Absalom represent the same principle we live by — when trust is certain, you move faster. This is not a sponsorship. It’s alignment.”
— [Tito Alai, Founder], TendaWorld
TRUST AT SPEED
In rally motorsport, the bond between driver and navigator is the most consequential relationship on the stage. It operates in real time, under extreme pressure, with zero tolerance for ambiguity. A misread note, a moment of hesitation — any of these ends the race.
This is precisely the infrastructure TendaWorld builds for business. Through its GoPaperless platform, TendaWorld powers legally binding digital agreements that are KICA-compliant and cryptographically secured — making identity verification, contract signing, and deal closure instant and tamper-proof. Licensed by the Communications Authority of Kenya, TendaWorld operates the JuliCA Certificate Authority and serves entrepreneurs,enterprises, institutions, and governments across the continent.
The Kavisi-Aswani partnership, forged over eight years of competition, is a living proof-of-concept: two professionals from entirely different disciplines, moving at speed, with absolute certainty in each other. TendaWorld sees itself in that.
THE TEAM
Evans Kavisi — Driver
Away from the dust of the Rift Valley, Evans Kavisi is a seasoned architect. His professional background defines his driving style: he approaches a rally stage like a structural blueprint, prioritising technical precision and meticulous planning. After a deliberate sabbatical — time on the golf course, a mental and physical reset — Kavisi returns to the 2026 season as a man reborn: blending the analytical discipline of an architect with the endurance of a high-performance athlete.
“In the car, there is no room for doubt. When Absalom calls a corner, I commit. That trust is everything. To have a partner like TendaWorld — a company that understands what trust actually means — this is bigger than sponsorship. This is belief.”
— Evans Kavisi, Driver
Absalom Aswani — Navigator
Absalom Aswani — “Abu” to his peers — provides the creative counterbalance. A fine arts graduate and digital artist, Aswani runs a studio in Karen specialising in wall art installations for high-end architectural projects. In the cockpit, he translates an artist’s eye for detail into what he calls “the art of communication” — where a single misread syllable carries structural consequences.
“Every call I make, Evans executes. There’s no second-guessing. TendaWorld operates the same way — certainty, speed, no room for error. That’s why this partnership makes sense.”
— Absalom Aswani, Navigator
RALLY CREDENTIALS
Since their 2018 debut, Kavisi and Aswani have entered five Safari Rallies, including four WRC editions. Their most significant performance came in 2022, when they led the WRC National Category until a mechanical retirement on the penultimate stage. That result — heartbreaking in the moment, defining in retrospect — is the foundation on which the 2026 campaign is built.
A NEW LANDMARK FOR KENYAN TECHNOLOGY
This sponsorship represents more than a brand on a car. It signals that Kenyan technology companies are scaling, investing in national identity, and staking their presence on the world stage. As African enterprise software companies grow their footprints beyond borders, partnerships like this mark a shift in how the continent’s technology sector sees itself — and how the world sees it.
