Mohamed Jimale Somalia-based startup Ari.farm allows investors to purchase and trade livestock over a mobile app. CEO Mohamed Jimale answers our questions. 1. Give us your elevator pitch. On Ari.farm you can buy, own and sell livestock such as camels, goats and sheep from your smartphone. We are giving access…
Lindy Scott Artist-turned-entrepreneur Lindy Scott, on how to utilise creativity in strategy. The belief that non-creatives can indeed be creative when you offer them a framework where there is playfulness and the freedom to make mistakes, led to the birth of Conceptual Eyes in 2012. This creative agency assists blue chip…
Li Peng Rapid advancements in information communications technologies (ICT) over the past 20 years has substantially altered the ways in which people live, work, play and interact with one another. The World Bank’s World Development Report shows that ICT has a positive effect on a country’s economy, with a 10%…
Nouakchott, Mauritania As the World Bank Group’s flagship publication, Doing Business, celebrates its 15th edition, Mauritania continues to thrive as a major reformer in investment climate policy. The country was highlighted in the Doing Business 2016 report among the top 10 reformers worldwide and the current 2018 report shows that…
Delivered by DHL Once the sole preserve of the manufacturing industry, robots are quickly gaining an automated foothold in logistics. Whether it’s fulfilment, delivery or in the warehouse, bots are getting in on the action almost everywhere. With robots turning up in just about every part of the logistics process,…
Jean-Philippe Kayobotsi Jean-Philippe Kayobotsi is CEO and co-founder of Brioche Café Bistro, a chain of bakery and coffee shops, first started as a small, self-funded endeavour in Rwanda, 2013. 1. Tell us about one of the toughest situations you’ve found yourself in as a business owner. Eventually, most of the issues…
Profit-making idea is a series of short posts, each with a piece of information that we think you might find useful: for investment, for growing your company or to start a new business. Read our previous posts here. In a recent interview, we asked Jean-Philippe Kayobotsi, CEO of Brioche Cafe Bistro, a…
Nhlanganiso Mkwanazi How we made it in Africa’s Due Diligence series asks top players in Africa’s private equity industry about how they are mastering the art and science of profitable dealmaking and fundraising. Doing the due diligence on those who do due diligence for a living. This article is published in…
Khartoum, capital of Sudan The United States has been imposing sanctions on Sudan since 1997 and listed it as one of the countries sponsoring terrorism. Sudan’s president has three warrants of arrest against him issued by the International Criminal Court. The country itself has been a hotbed of violence and…
How we made it in Africa asked some of the continent’s most dynamic entrepreneurs to share the toughest situations they’ve found themselves in as business owners, and how they overcame these challenges. 1. Tumi Phake, founder and CEO, Zenzele Fitness Group Zenzele Fitness Group is a South African gym management…