For Diana Orembe, co-founder and chief executive of NovFeed – a Tanzanian fish feed and organic fertiliser company – one of ...

Africa’s Business Heroes. Across Africa, a quiet but decisive shift is underway. Entrepreneurship on the continent is no ...

Richard Okello compares investing in Africa to riding a speedboat through rough seas while trying to drink a glass of wine ...

Partner, managing partner, board member, senior advisor … the list of positions Addis Alemayehou holds concurrently is impressive. Many of these roles are at his own companies, which include one of ...

Singapore-based Tolaram sees opportunity in infrastructure with new port and free zone. In late January, the largest container vessel ever to berth in Nigeria, the CMA CGM Scandola, with a capacity of ...

A growing population and larger, more developed cities translate into vast opportunities for retail. For example, wholesale and retail are already the third-largest contributor to Nigeria’s GDP while ...

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 ...

Africa’s people are often cited as being one of the best things about the continent. In fact, I would say that at least 80% of Western expats and local business leaders interviewed by How we made it ...

Approximately half of all apples marketed by South African fruit company Tru-Cape are sold within the continent. “Twenty years ago, Granny Smith, Top Red, and Golden Delicious were the only varieties ...

We speak with Kevin Conroy, founder and CEO of Lagos-based Bature Brewery, about his journey of establishing a craft beer business in Nigeria. Interview and text by Jaco Maritz The early days of ...

Recent analysis by McKinsey & Company suggests that as much as 35% of the fleet in sub-Saharan Africa’s five largest vehicle markets (excluding South Africa) will be electric by 2040. Electric ...

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 ...