The Afripreneur

By Aditi Maheshwari The Tourism Business Council of South Africa (TBCSA) has launched a tourism and hospitality industry application, Opus4business. The new app will aid in the safe reopening of the industry by training business owners on the safe implementation of the Covid-19 tourism safety protocols. Based on industry designed tourism protocols, South Africa has received the World Travel & Tourism Council’s...

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...

By Miracle Nwankwo The sustainable development goals 3, prioritizes neonatal and maternal health which gives volume to the fact that the lives of women and infants are valuable. On this account, a woman in West Africa chose to sacrifice her time and energy for the safety of mothers and infants at childbirth. It all began in 2011 when Adepeju Jaiyeoba lost...

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...

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...

Before now, the export business was a ‘no go’ area for many entrepreneurs around the world. This was due to the many bureaucracies that were involved and the seemly perception that if a person was into international trade, then the person would either worth at least one million dollars or have top government connections. However, the story has changed. Today...

By Miracle Nwankwo “I realised if I became a doctor, I could treat a few patients. If I focused on how to create models to allow patients access to care, I would have the greatest impact.” Those were the words of a wise African entrepreneur who decided a long time ago to change the health system in Africa for the better. Gregory...

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...

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/...

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...