Digital tools
Africa’s EdTech Revolution Is About More Than Education
Africa’s e-learning market is projected to grow from $3.4 billion to $19 billion by 2034. Ten EdTech ventures made Africa’s Business Heroes 2026 Top 100.…
Social enterprise
How to Map Your Stakeholders — and Why It Changes Everything About Your Social Enterprise Strategy
Most social enterprise failures are not failures of the product or the idea. They are failures of relationships — the wrong people ignored, the wrong…
Carbon credits
Africa Is Sitting on a $100 Billion Carbon Market
The global carbon market is approaching $1 trillion. Africa holds some of the world’s most significant carbon sinks. And the continent is capturing less than…
Fundraising
How to Write a Grant Proposal That Wins: A Practical Guide for African Social Entrepreneurs
A strong grant proposal is not a summary of your work. It is a carefully constructed argument for why your venture is the right answer…
Fundraising
Africa’s $100 Billion Diaspora Is Becoming an Investor Class — What That Means for Social Entrepreneurs
For decades, the African diaspora’s contribution to the continent has been measured in remittances: money sent home to feed families, pay school fees, and cover…
Creating impact
How to Write a Theory of Change That Funders Actually Fund
Most African social enterprise founders know they need a Theory of Change. Very few know how to write one that makes a funder want to…
Funding
Africa’s $42 Billion Women’s Funding Gap Is Finally Being Addressed — Here’s How to Access the Capital Moving In
Women lead more than half of Africa’s social enterprises. They face a $42 billion funding gap. And in 2026, the most significant coordinated effort to…
Agritech
Climate-Smart Agriculture Is Africa’s Next Social Enterprise Frontier — and $10 Billion Is Moving In
The continent that feeds a third of the world’s smallholder farmers is facing the sharpest end of climate disruption. The social enterprises building climate-smart food…
Creating impact
Africa’s Community Health Worker Is the Continent’s Most Undervalued Social Enterprise Asset — That’s Changing Fast
84% of Africa’s community health workers are currently unpaid. The African Union wants 2 million of them deployed by 2030. In between those two facts…
Agritech
Africa’s Informal Economy Is Not the Problem — It’s the Market
Almost everything written about Africa’s informal economy frames it as a challenge to be overcome. The most interesting social entrepreneurs on the continent have figured…