The Starbucks of healthcare. This is how a chain of clinics in Egypt that Magda Habib has co-founded and built to 30 branches ...

Across Africa, a new generation of entrepreneurs is quietly transforming the continent’s economic and social landscape.

Joël Sikam is the founder and CEO of Fisco Industries, a manufacturer of home and personal cleaning products in Cameroon. His ambition is to build Africa’s equivalent of Procter & Gamble, the American ...

Investors she pitched to often doubted there was sufficient demand for the company’s products. What they didn’t grasp is that in her line of business, demand follows supply. Large international buyers ...

Ade Sun-Basorun is the chief executive of FoodCo, a Nigerian retailer and consumer goods company. In this interview, he talks about the company’s growth, the challenges of operating in Nigeria, and ...

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, ...

“Entrepreneurship is not for the faint-hearted,” says Lesly Marange, founder and chief executive of Glytime Foods, a Zimbabwean producer of granola and other food products. “It’s a game of patience, ...

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 ...

At just 41, Ogiame Atuwatse III, the Olu of Warri, stands as one of the youngest traditional rulers on the African continent yet his reign reflects the gravitas and clarity of a leader far beyond his ...

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 ...

From a meat processing venture in Rwanda to a Tanzanian fruit and vegetable business, and a Malawian supplier of animal feed and veterinary products – these are just a few of the companies in 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 ...