“ Agriculture is not for the faint-hearted – capital intensive, long payback period, low margins, politically and weather influenced, and so on and so on,” he explained. “You have to hustle. You have ...
Yonas Alemu, founder of the food company Lovegrass Ethiopia, has navigated a remarkable path – from growing up in rural Ethiopia, to working as an investment banker in London, and ultimately returning ...
Fahad Awadh is the founder of YYTZ Agro-Processing, an export-focused cashew producer based in Tanzania. Despite being one of the world’s major cashew growers, Tanzania exports 90% of its cashews in ...
In 2021, Japanese entrepreneur Yuma Sasaki moved to Ethiopia to establish Dodai, an electric motorcycle company assembling its bikes locally in Addis Ababa.
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 ...