ReelFruit, founded by Affiong Williams, has grown from small beginnings to supplying both local retailers and overseas buyers ...

Ade Sun-Basorun, CEO of FoodCo, talks about the company’s growth and the lessons he has learnt in the retail industry.

Basorun, CEO of FoodCo, talks about the company’s growth and the lessons he has learnt in the retail industry.

With more than 60% of its 1.166 billion people living in rural areas, Africa’s economy is inherently dependent on agriculture. More than 32% of the continent’s gross domestic product comes from the ...

Following the end of the Korean War in 1953, South Korea prioritised its alliance with the United States in pursuit of economic growth and military security. It took more than a decade since the end ...

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 ...

A growing population and larger, more developed cities translate into vast opportunities for retail. For example, wholesale and retail are already the third-largest contributor to Nigeria’s GDP while ...

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 ...

Smart cities leverage on technology and use the large amount of data their citizens generate every second to optimise resources, to connect people and to improve business and trading. A smart city ...

Among participants in the exercise, headed by the famed US-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), were students from Uganda’s Makerere University. The experience inspired them to embark on ...

Jaco Maritz, editor-in-chief of How we made it in Africa, recently visited the Jus Délice pineapple juice factory in Togo, his first trip to the small West African country. He shares his experience ...

Despite the continent’s strong economic growth over the past decade, the majority of Africans still struggle to make ends meet. That is not to say however, that Africa lacks wealthy people. UK-based ...