Business & founders stories across Africa
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Founded in 2002, Interswitch started as a transaction switch and grew to include Quickteller, a retail payments platform, and Verve, a home-grown card scheme.
From executive secretary to fashion house founder to holder of an offshore oil licence, Folorunso Alakija’s career shows how many chapters one business life can have.
Yaba’s universities, fibre connectivity and the Co-Creation Hub helped make it Lagos’s technology cluster, nicknamed “Yabacon Valley”.
From a ₦3,000 start in 1980 to the founding of Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing in Nnewi in 2007, Innocent Chukwuma built a company step by step.
Born in Jos, Tony Elumelu turned a struggling Nigerian bank profitable, led United Bank for Africa into 20 countries, then set up a foundation to back…
A marketplace, logistics and payments business spread across 14 African countries by 2018, Jumia’s story includes a record IPO, a sharp share-price swing and a decision…
Born in Kano in 1957, Aliko Dangote began with a small trading company at twenty and built the Dangote Group into one of Africa’s best-known industrial…
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