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

Our membership base is basically 1% of 1% of the population of Nigeria. It’s literally nothing. We’re still just scratching ...

For decades, South Africa’s freight rail network has been tightly controlled by the state. Youssef Elgonaid, CEO of African ...

Every month, thousands of shipping containers arrive at African ports, filled with goods that Saikat Chowdhury believes should be made on the continent.

Every entrepreneur begins with a problem. For some, it’s a personal struggle; for others, an industry-wide gap. But for all of ABH’s 2024 Top 10, these challenges became opportunities to build ...

When Luvuyo Rani and his brother Lonwabo started a tiny information and communication technologies (ICT) business selling refurbished computers from the boot of his car in 2004, he little knew what ...

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 ...

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 ...

Timi Oke is the co-founder and CEO of AgroEknor, a company exporting dried hibiscus flowers grown in Nigeria to global markets, including the US, Mexico and Europe. He secured his first agricultural ...

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 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 ...

Freedom of Movement is a South African clothing and accessories brand co-founded by the Boezaart brothers. With South African rugby captain Siya Kolisi as a minority shareholder, the company has ...