Charles Antwi-Boahen is the founder of Kab-Fam, an electronics and home appliance retailer that has grown from modest ...

Charles Antwi-Boahen is the founder of Kab-Fam, an electronics and home appliance retailer that has grown from humble beginnings to a 16-store chain across Ghana. But getting there was no easy feat.

Entrepreneur Deepankar Rustagi saw an opportunity to make the informal retail system more efficient by digitising the flow of consumer goods.

Swiss-born entrepreneur Jérôme Lapaire identified an opportunity to sell eyeglasses to price-sensitive customers in Africa. He shared the story of his entrepreneurial journey with Jack Thompson. How ...

This article is an excerpt of an African Hidden Champions case study titled An emerging giant: Dawa Group’s journey from a trading business to a leading pharmaceutical manufacturer. African Hidden ...

Learn from Africa’s most interesting entrepreneurs and investors. How we made it in Africa conducts in-depth interviews with entrepreneurs and investors to reveal how they built their companies and ...

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How Lesly Marange, founder and CEO of Zimbabwe-based Glytime Foods, started and grew a food company amid numerous economic and operational challenges. In 2018, Lesly Marange had a lot on his plate. In ...

While fruits like pineapples, bananas, and mangoes thrive in Africa’s equatorial region, apples typically do not, as they favour cooler climates. However, German-born entrepreneur David Runge spotted ...

The article has been adapted from a Bowmans Africa Insights report, a research collaboration between Bowmans and the University of Stellenbosch’s Centre for Complex Systems in Transition. By Nina ...

When Tanzanian businessman Joseph Kadendula, CEO and co-founder of Central Park Bees and its retail brand Swahili Honey, decided to set up an apiary, he had no knowledge of bees. What he did have was ...