Business & founders stories across Africa
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From a radio job in high school to a production company and her own television network, Oprah Winfrey built one of the most recognised media brands…
After several failed ventures, the founder of iROKO started a YouTube channel for licensed Nigerian films. It led to 25 million dollars of investment and 5,000…
From Daveyton to the boardroom, Wendy Luhabe founded Bridging the Gap in 1991 and Women Investment Holdings in 1993, launching an R120 million private equity fund…
A chartered accountant from Yaba College of Technology, Fola Adeola ran GTBank for twelve years, then turned to mentoring founders and building Nigeria’s internet cable.
Launched in Nigeria and Pakistan in January 2013, the online marketplace expanded to 35 countries. The business lesson is about breadth, and what happens when a…
Imagine Worldwide delivers literacy and numeracy through tablet-based learning in Sub-Saharan Africa, and won the 2024 Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prize.
In 1987 Fernando Duarte and Robert Brozin bought a small Portuguese-Mozambican chicken takeaway in Johannesburg, tried the peri-peri sauce and renamed it.
From his mother’s house in Hollis, Queens, Daymond John built FUBU, a clothing brand that has earned over 6 billion dollars in global sales.
Managing individual shafts under contract in the 1980s, Bridgette Radebe went on to start Mmakau Mining, a firm exploring and producing platinum, gold and chrome.
Born from a consulting project and later acquired by African Rainbow Capital, the bank signed up customers at kiosks in Pick n Pay and Boxer stores,…
From a computer science diploma in Jos to a PhD in innovation, Bosun Tijani built CcHUB in Lagos and acquired Nairobi’s iHub along the way.
Founded in 1971 with 50,000 outgrower farmers, Mumias Sugar produced sugar, electricity and ethanol. Falling output and an audit led to a decade of trouble.
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