Asili Africa — origin stories of Africa’s biggest companies
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 »
How a state telephone department with twelve thousand customers became the company that taught the world how to bank a continent.
Safaricom — The Department That Banked a Country Read More »
How the institution every regulator wanted to bury became the bank the rest of Africa now studies.
Equity Bank — The Bank the Poor Built Read More »
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.
Vivo Activewear — The Living Room Empire Read More »
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
Sendy / TABB — The Comeback Read More »
Pay-as-you-go solar for 3 million homes
M-KOPA — Forty Shillings a Day Read More »
A cookstove company that’s sold 3 million units and saved 20 million tons of CO2
BURN Manufacturing — The Stove and the Seal Read More »
Fixing Africa’s broken food supply chain
Twiga Foods — The Empire That Outgrew Its Math Read More »
