The Grinders Memoir
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| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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Africa's biggest opportunities have always been friction problems.
In 2006, Opeyemi Awoyemi was a first-year student at OAU, trying to get a website online.
It took him three days. He had to source a virtual card, go to the bank, scan the receipt, send it to the card provider, take the card to a café, buy...
The builder who moves across industries isn't wandering - they're compounding
“A jack of all trades is a master of none.”
Most people stop there. The full version, widely cited though its precise origins are disputed, continues: “but oftentimes better than a master of one.“
Someone, at some point, decided to drop t...
What Japan Taught Me About Trust Infrastructure
Last week I was standing in a queue at a train station in Tokyo when this hit me, I knew I had to write an article.
It wasn’t the efficiency, though that was strikingly obvious. Not the silence. It was the absence of institutional enforcem...
Your First Product Isn’t an App, It’s a Network
You don’t build a lender in Africa on vibes and a pitch deck. If your product is money, you either start rich or you start so deeply networked that other people are willing to lend you their balance sheet and credibility.
That was the unco...
Everyone Wants Africa. The Question Is Whether Africa Is Building For Itself.
The US and China are no longer debating Africa’s potential. They are competing for it.
China just announced zero-tariff access to 53 African countries, effective May 2026. The US is scrambling to keep AGOA alive under a president who has s...
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