Asili Africa — origin stories of Africa’s biggest companies
Benjamin Fernandes — ex-NBA Africa marketer turned Stanford GSB student — built NALA from a Tanzanian diaspora remittance app into a stablecoin-powered B2B payments platform (Rafiki) running corridors across five African countries; the company’s pivot from consumer-only to consumer + infrastructure is the narrative spine
NALA — The Friend at the Other End Read More »
The Amazon of Africa that might be neither
Jumia — The Continental Market Read More »
The fintech that dared to be Africa’s Stripe
Flutterwave — The Bridge of Money Read More »
The only African airline that actually works — and why
Ethiopian Airlines — Bird of the Continent Read More »
Post-apartheid bet became Africa’s largest telco
MTN — The Yellow Network Read More »
One man built Africa’s richest fortune from cement
Dangote Group — The Cement and the Crude Read More »
A small Nairobi assistive-robotics startup is building AI hardware that translates speech into sign language in real time — and just beat 1,200+ applicants from 45 African countries to become Qualcomm’s sole Kenyan pick in its Make in Africa mentorship
Zerobionic — The Robot That Speaks in Signs Read More »
The pan-African podcast platform built from Nairobi that let African creators reach audiences without traditional media gatekeepers — built quietly while the global podcast industry assumed Africa would always be a consumer market, not a producer one
Afripods — The Platform That Let Africa Pay Its Own Voices Read More »
From a single coffee shop on Adams Arcade to a pan-African chain — and the private-equity ride that followed
Java House — From One Cafe to a Private-Equity Empire Read More »
A cross-border casual-dining empire that exists because a Ugandan judge ruled that no one could own the word Java.
CJ’s — The Restaurant That Exists Because of a Lawsuit Read More »
