African american businessman presenting financial statistics by business corporate video call, using phone. Smiling friendly black male business coach teaching distantly online, showing document. After weeks of delays from a professional video editor tasked with slicing and merging several seconds from 16 different videos into a looping background video, I took matters into my own...Read More

Let’s address the elephant in the boardroom: Has Africa become the market everyone politely mentions but secretly deprioritizes? The continent’s business narrative oscillates between wild optimism (“fastest growing middle class!”) and quiet pessimism (“but where are the returns?”). Meanwhile, investor attention pivots toward AI, climate tech, and Asian markets with predictable regulatory environments. Yet this...Read More

Your market research is impressive. Your financial projections look solid. But here’s what’s keeping your future competitors up at night: The relationship economy trumps your efficiency metrics. While you’re optimizing supply chains, local businesses are cultivating relationships that no algorithm can replicate. In markets where trust precedes transactions, your operational excellence means little without genuine...Read More