The Afripreneur

One thing about successful business people is that we only see their victories; we don’t see their struggles. We see the green on the other side, but believe me, someone does the weeding. Anna Phosa was born in the rural village of Boukenhouthoek, a small village situated in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. Phosa’s father died a few years earlier,...

Africa has the world’s fastest-growing beer market. The USD 13 Bn industry is buoyed by urbanization, a growing young population and the expansion of the continent’s middle class. According to sector analysis, the African beer market will grow at a 5 percent rate until 2020, compared to 3 percent in Asia and 1 percent in Europe. It will have a...

A report from Deutesche Welle reveals that African entrepreneurs are the hardest hit by the COVID-19 crisis in Germany. According to the report, Africans who own stores and hairdressers or produce music in Germany also makes for a vibrant subculture, as the country now faces the COVID-19, the outlook is bleak for the Afro-German business community. On any normal day at...

For some African startups, the impact of COVID-19 led to pay cuts, layoffs, and furloughs. However, African businesses are not the only business involved with such operations. For example, the new generation mega billion-dollar startups; Silicon Valley, and three marquee San Francisco tech companies namely; Uber, Airbnb, and Lyft, have, in the last few days, cut thousands of jobs, in...

Experts share tips at first Fashionomics Africa webinar, and a total of 136 fashion entrepreneurs, digital innovators and creative minds have joined the discussion. The African Development Bank’s Fashionomics Africa initiative on Tuesday launched its first webinar series to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the industry. The African Development Bank under the leadership of the Gender, Women and Civil...

“We didn’t see this coming, we didn’t know it was going to happen, but we are all here, so how do we survive? What can we do?” ANONYMOUS   “The global COVID-19 crisis is a bolt out of the blue for us all with serious implications as it is rapidly changing the way we live and work. Not only does it threaten...

Obado Obadoh, MD and founder of Nanjala Ltd, the parent company of Café Deli, says this fusion sets the restaurant apart from its competitors. Café Deli is a mix of African cuisine restaurant and a coffee house. “A continental fusion,” as Obadoh describes it. The business includes three restaurants situated throughout Nairobi but Obadoh and his team are planning...

The logistics business is the most hit of the nearly worldwide lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus which has disrupted almost all sectors and doing business in Africa. As a result, young Nigerian E-logistics entrepreneur, Obi Ozor, Group CEO and co-founder of E-logistics startup Kobo360 had to go back to the drawing board. According to...

Nigerian UK-trained medical doctor and founder of Flying Doctors Nigeria, Dr Ola Brown recently developed a special walk-in COVID-19 testing booth that can save many lives and a lot of money too. This mobile testing booth has the potential to cut down on the use of single-use Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), which are, anyway, in short supply. With this, the doctor/...

It took him eight months of trials to make sure that this rechargeable iron could work properly. In this laboratory, 23-year-old Baraka Safari Elie spends his whole day making these rechargeable irons, the first of its kind in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They are rechargeable and can conserve energy for up to 3 hours. Young Safari Elie says he wants to...