How we made it in Africa
Learn from Africa’s most interesting entrepreneurs and investors.
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Building an avocado oil export business from Kenya
The former investment banker who co-founded an avocado oil company now selling throughout the world.
Kenya is Africa’s largest avocado producer. Miraj Shah and his cousin, Mitul, saw an opportunity to turn the country’s surplus avocados in...
Brooks Washington’s four lessons from building businesses in Africa
Brooks Washington
Roha Group, founded by American-born Brooks Washington, started out in Africa with a beer bottle factory in Ethiopia. It has since launched a pan-African data centre business and an equipment financing company, and is now...
From beer bottles in Ethiopia to data centres: The American entrepreneur who goes big in Africa
Having launched a glass factory, a pan-African data centre business and an equipment financing company, Roha Group’s Brooks Washington is now building a hospital in Addis Ababa. This is his story.
After several years at McKinsey in South A...
‘It’s a very hot market’: Co-working space operator bullish on Guinea
Our new book, How we made it in Africa II: Real stories of entrepreneurs turning opportunity into profit, is available here. The book was recently shortlisted for the Business Council for Africa (BCA) African Business Book of the Year Award...
Beyond remittances: Freelancers and China trade are big cross-border payment flows for Africa
Raj Kamal, founder and CEO of TransFi
By Bonface Orucho (Bird Story Agency)
Africa is building faster ways to move money across borders.
However, faster payment rails are exposing the question whether banks and payment providers have eno...
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