Jyoti Mukherjee Jyoti Mukherjee is the founder and CEO of Software Technologies, a Kenyan-based software development and cloud-based solutions company. 1. Tell us about one of the toughest situations you’ve found yourself in as a business owner. In 1991, when I started Software Technologies Limited (STL), we barely had…
Vladimir Putin, President of Russia For most casual observers, the prominent non-Western country active in Africa is China. Its Belt and Road Initiative and its active foreign investment in many African countries have highlighted its presence on the continent. The extent to which many commodity exporters are dependent on exports…
Gerald Gondo On a recent trip to Morocco to attend the 15th Annual Africa Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA) conference, I had the pleasure of being seated next to and in front of two young families on the aeroplane, both returning home to Morocco after visiting friends and…
Bolaji Akinboro 1. What part of your job keeps you awake at night? I constantly think about how to use technology to capture the full potential of the agriculture value chain in Africa and help the continent achieve self-sufficiency and bring down the food import bill. Africa currently loses 32%…
Over the last 25 years, Côte d’Ivoire’s cashew production has seen exploding growth. In nearly 10 years, the Ivorian cashew crop has surged 154% from 280,000 MT in 2007 to 711,000 MT in 2017. In 2016, Côte d’Ivoire overtook India, the world’s largest cashew producer, as the world’s leading raw…
Kutlwano Ramaboa If 99.6% of businesses in a country like Nigeria employ fewer than 10 workers, does it make sense to teach Nigerian business students how to manage Fortune 500 companies in the US using Harvard Business School case studies? This question, raised by the African Management Initiative in a…
Rolín Nel Rolín Nel is the CEO and founder of Kaross Travel, a Gauteng-based travel agency specialising in bespoke personal and corporate travel. 1. Tell us about one of the toughest situations you’ve found yourself in as a business owner. Doing the undoable for clients on a daily basis, and…
Bear in mind that blockchain brings challenges as well as solutions – and some of them are currently very far from being overcome. For example, how can we achieve a tamper-proof link between a physical object and its digital identifier? This is a key issue for logistics, where it ultimately…
Mozambique, which gained independence from Portugal in 1975, is home to a culturally diverse population of 29 million people. Before the Portuguese invasion in the sixteenth century, the region was an important trading centre for slaves, gold and ivory for Arabs and Persians. This trade was centred on the Island…
PRESS OFFICE: OPIC In Rwanda, more than three-quarters of the country’s labour force works in agriculture and coffee is a key crop that generates a significant share of export earnings. But a decade ago, after years of minimal upkeep, the country’s coffee industry was showing its age. Individual farm yields were…