Safaricom — The Department That Banked a Country
How a state telephone department with twelve thousand customers became the company that taught the world how to bank a continent.
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Asili Africa
Asili Africa — origin stories of Africa’s biggest companies
Equity Bank — The Bank the Poor Built
How the institution every regulator wanted to bury became the bank the rest of Africa now studies.
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Vivo Activewear — The Living Room Empire
Wandia Gichuru turned a Nairobi living room into East Africa’s largest women’s fashion brand — and rebuilt the production line overnight to survive COVID.
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Sendy / TABB — The Comeback
Meshack Alloys built Sendy into East Africa’s most visible logistics startup, raised $24M+, watched it collapse in 2023 — and is back with TABB, a trade-credit network letting banks lend to SMBs off transaction data
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M-KOPA — Forty Shillings a Day
Pay-as-you-go solar for 3 million homes
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BURN Manufacturing — The Stove and the Seal
A cookstove company that’s sold 3 million units and saved 20 million tons of CO2
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Twiga Foods — The Empire That Outgrew Its Math
Fixing Africa’s broken food supply chain
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BasiGo — The Bus That Was a Contract
Electric buses on Nairobi’s streets — how a startup is replacing diesel matatus
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d.light — The Bond Market That Wasn’t Supposed to Exist
A Stanford class project that became Africa’s largest solar company — $176M raised in 2024
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