You may be running a social enterprise that’s changing lives. You’ve got loyal customers, a passionate team, and the numbers are finally starting to look good. Then comes the investor…
When most SME founders hear the word “governance,” their eyes glaze over. It sounds like something for big corporations with expensive lawyers and mahogany boardrooms, not for a small social…
Across Africa, smallholder farmers feed the continent — yet they remain some of its poorest citizens. They grow most of our food, but struggle to access credit, insurance, and fair…
Every year, governments and large corporations in Africa spend billions of dollars buying goods and services. From office supplies and catering to logistics and construction, procurement budgets are enormous. Now…
Social entrepreneurs across Africa are solving some of the continent’s toughest challenges — unemployment, waste management, access to healthcare, climate adaptation — and they’re doing it sustainably. But ask any…
When most people think of innovation, they picture labs, algorithms, or Silicon Valley engineers. But across Africa, innovation didn’t start with technology — it started with people. Our grandparents were…
Africa is on the frontlines of climate change. From droughts hitting smallholder farmers in Mozambique, to floods washing away businesses in Nigeria, to unpredictable weather threatening power supply and transport…
You’ve perfected your product, hustled through the early days, built a loyal customer base — and now you’re ready to grow. But there’s one challenge that makes or breaks most…
Africa has a waste problem. From plastic bottles littering our streets to mountains of e-waste piling up in dumpsites, the continent is drowning in materials that could be reused, recycled,…
Across Africa, there’s one statistic that everyone talks about — and for good reason: over 60% of the continent’s population is under 25. That’s not just a demographic; it’s a…