The Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) initiative is pleased to announce that Jerry Yang will join the judging panel at the 7th ...

After building a property portal and a corporate transport venture, Moroccan entrepreneur Ismael Belkhayat, together with his wife, Sophia Alj, launched Chari in 2020 to give small shopkeepers a ...

Adesuwa Okunbo Rhodes launched Lagos-based Aruwa Capital Management to tackle a significant funding gap for small businesses in Nigeria and Ghana, particularly those led by women. About six years on, ...

Hadija Jabiri is the founder of GBRI, a Tanzanian agribusiness company that started with vegetables and now exports avocados to Europe and India. How we made it in Africa editor-in-chief Jaco Maritz ...

Africa Capitalworks (ACW) has invested in Enko Education. Founded in 2013, Enko Education is a platform of K-12 (primary and secondary) schools. ACW’s investment was complemented by a follow-on ...

FoodCourt is redefining the traditional food delivery model in Nigeria. The company operates over a dozen in-house, delivery-only restaurant brands – including Jollof & Co. (everyday Nigerian cuisine) ...

Botswana’s diamond mining industry, the backbone of its economy, faces challenges from the rising popularity of lab-grown diamonds. Lab diamonds have captured 15% to 20% of the market due to their ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kubik is a company that converts recycled plastic waste into interlocking building materials, such as bricks, beams, and columns. Kubik’s products are at least 40% cheaper per square metre compared to ...

Ewaen Sorae, just short of qualifying for British citizenship, a life-changing opportunity most Africans embrace, saw an opportunity in 2010 that he believed couldn’t wait. He took the plunge to ...

With Africa’s population expected to grow from approximately 1.5 billion today to around 2.5 billion by 2050, the demand for protein will substantially exceed current levels. As one of the most ...