Eka Obaigbena noticed a gap in Nigeria’s restaurant market for the fast-casual chains she had grown accustomed to while ...

Richard Okello, co-founder of Sango Capital, highlights the markets where he sees the strongest investment potential.

She took over 100 Africans to the Caribbean. Now Aisha Maina is quietly reshaping Afri-Caribbean business and diplomacy.

Richard Okello compares investing in Africa to riding a speedboat through rough seas while trying to drink a glass of wine without spilling a drop.

From poultry farming to cashew nut processing, we highlight the stories of six Tanzanian agribusiness and food entrepreneurs who have made their mark on the local and global markets. In 2019, ...

Afri Foods, a horticultural company in Rwanda, was started in 2019 by Sakina Usengimana. It exports crops such as chilli, avocado, eggplant and passion fruit to Germany, the Netherlands, France, the ...

In 2021, Japanese entrepreneur Yuma Sasaki moved to Ethiopia to establish Dodai, an electric motorcycle company assembling its bikes locally in Addis Ababa. Jaco Maritz spoke with Sasaki to learn ...

At the end of 2024, Rwandan company Paniel Meat Processing (PMP) went public on the Stock Exchange of Mauritius. Yet, less than a decade earlier, founder Herve Tuyishime had lost his family home after ...

At the end of 2011, The Economist magazine caused quite a stir when it came out with a cover titled ‘Africa Rising’ together with an illustration of a boy flying a rainbow-coloured kite the shape of ...

While fruits like pineapples, bananas, and mangoes thrive in Africa’s equatorial region, apples typically do not, as they favour cooler climates. However, German-born entrepreneur David Runge spotted ...

A slightly longer version of this article was first published by the International Finance Corporation. In Rwanda, more than half the vehicles on roads are ‘moto-taxis’. They are the backbone of the ...

According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the Nigerian manufacturing sector is dominated by the production of food, beverages and tobacco, with sugar and bread products generating the ...