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.

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 ...

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

How American-born Carl Jensen and his co-founders at Good Nature Agro built a business with $10 million in revenue by collaborating with smallholder farmers in Zambia. Agriculture in Africa is ...

This article is a slightly-edited excerpt from Standard Bank’s Africa Consumer Insights Report 2020: Third Edition. Covid-19 will cause subdued consumer spending growth in Ethiopia, with real ...

This article is an excerpt from Standard Bank’s Can Africa take the platform economy forward? report. The burgeoning platform economy, which refers to value-creating interactions facilitated by ...

Freedom of Movement is a South African clothing and accessories brand co-founded by the Boezaart brothers. With South African rugby captain Siya Kolisi as a minority shareholder, the company has ...

Maxwell Kalu describes his business as “Africa’s UFC”, referencing the multi-billion dollar American mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion company, the Ultimate Fighting Championship. But the African ...

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 ...