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Shining the light on African Brilliance Lydiah Kemunto Bosire & 8B Education Investments

“I was born in a thatched hut in Kisii, Kenya, with prospectuses of Oxford and Cambridge on our bookshelf, those being vestiges of my...

Banking the Majority. Affinity Africa – Transforming Africa’s Financial Landscape

Tarek Mouganie is the founder and driving force behind Affinity Africa, a full-fledged digitally-driven financial institution. It...

Felix, Snails and the Trisolace Farms Story: Solving Youth Unemployment

This is the second in our series on Africa’s Hidden Gems–amplifying the voices of African entrepreneurs who are leading the charge in...

Child’s Play No More: The implications for Businesses in Africa of EU regs affecting child labour

Regulatory moves in Brussels matter in [Congo] Brazzaville. The EU’s impending regulations on forced labour, which include child labour,...

Trash to Treasure: Innovative Businesses Tackling Africa's Waste Management Challenges

“I had a Eureka moment about single-use plastics and plastic pollution after surviving a flood and fire disaster around Kwame Nkrumah...

“Is it fair…..?”: Climate Change and African SMEs

It’s been nearly two weeks since COP27 – dubbed the “African COP” – ended. It’s also been two weeks since we posted the first article in...

Car manufacturing in Africa: Blue sky thinking needed

Recently, I listened to a webinar on opportunities for the automotive industry in Africa. I learned that Africa currently accounts for...

Philanthropy vs Strategic Social Investment: Moving sustainability from the periphery to the core

At the start of this Reflection series, I asked “What will it take?” for African businesses to ‘step up, scale up and scale out’© and...

Creating Value from the S in ESG: Prioritising Employees

In my last Reflection, I wrote about how African companies should view sustainability — or Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)...

Sustainability in African companies | From Compliance to Value

In my last Reflection, I gave examples of African companies that have stepped up to provide essential items for their countries and...

Five Ways that Gender Diversity Creates Value for African Companies

In my last Reflection, I wrote about the importance of the ‘S’ in environmental, social and governance (ESG) and how employee welfare and...

A New Horizon | Does Covid-19 offer an opportunity for African corporates to scale up & out?

Africa’s corporates, regardless of their size or sector, have a transformative role to play in shaping the continent’s sustainable future...

Sustainability and ESG for SMEs

Listen to conversations between Merlie Calvert of Farillio and Rosalind Kainyah,

on simplifying Sustainability and ESG for small and medium size business.

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