Hadija Jabiri is the founder of GBRI, a Tanzanian agribusiness company that started with vegetables and now exports avocados ...

Charles Antwi-Boahen is the founder of Kab-Fam, an electronics and home appliance retailer that has grown from modest ...

Learn from Africa’s most interesting entrepreneurs and investors. How we made it in Africa conducts in-depth interviews with entrepreneurs and investors to reveal how they built their companies and ...

Kenya has long been celebrated for its entrepreneurial spirit, where necessity meets ingenuity and ambition. Nowhere is this more evident than in Nairobi, a city increasingly recognised as a nerve ...

Interview summary: In 2012, Charles Antwi-Boahen was working as a salesman for an air-conditioning company in Ghana’s capital, Accra. It was not an easy job. The company specialised in central ...

DOB Equity has backed well-known companies like M-Kopa, Twiga Foods, and Victory Farms. Former co-CEO Saskia van der Mast shares the investment lessons she has learned and her insights on the region’s ...

Over the past two decades, modern shopping malls and air-conditioned grocery stores have been popping up across Nigeria. Yet, this is not where most Nigerians shop. An estimated 90% of retail ...