Welcome to How to Make It in Africa. This podcast will bring you some of the best stories of African entrepreneurship. African entrepreneurs have their own great successes, and they will be on this show to share them. We will have in-depth conversations with entrepreneurs, creatives and other changemakers. Together with our exciting guests, we will explore and dissect their motivations, their challenges, and the strategies to succeed across Africa and to build businesses that scale regionall ...
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Season Finale: Navalayo Osembo, Co-Founder of Enda, on Building an International Sportswear Brand Made in Africa
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Navalayo is co-founder and CEO of Enda Athletic, Inc. She's a graduate of the London School of Economics, and has worked internationally including the U.S., UK, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Kenya where she utilizes her diverse skills as an accountant, a lawyer, risk manager, and in international development. She's from a town near Eldoret, Kenya, that ha…
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#5: Martin Nielsen, Founder of Mdundo, on Re-Imagining the African Music Experience
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Martin is the co-founder and CEO of Mdundo. He moved to Kenya in 2012 as Entrepreneur in Residence for 88mph, an African investment fund with a focus on early-stage tech startups in Kenya. Over the past 5 years, Mdundo has grown to one of Africa’s leading music services with more than 7,000,000 monthly active users, primarily from Kenya, Tanzania, …
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#4: Nisha Kanabar, Founder of Industrie Africa, on Building a Global Digital Window into Local African Fashion
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Our guest is Nisha Kanabar. Nisha Kanabar is a curator and storyteller, and the founder of Industrie Africa. A Tanzanian of Indian origin, Kanabar graduated from Parsons School of Design in New York, and went on to forge a career in luxury fashion and publishing. With over a decade of experience at renowned industry names, she held formative positi…
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#3: Goke Olubusi, Co-Founder of Helium Health, on Digitizing African Healthcare from the Ground Up
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Our guest today is Adegoke Olubusi. Goke is co-founder and CEO of the healthtech startup Helium Health, based in Lagos, Nigeria. He’s a Johns Hopkins University alumnus, and was previously an engineer at eBay, PayPal and Goldman Sachs in the U.S. He served on the founding team of Africa's leading social network with 30 million+ users, and received …
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#2: Peter Njonjo, Co-Founder of Twiga, on a Digital Giraffe Disrupting Agriculture in Kenya
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Our guest is Peter Njonjo. Peter is Co-Founder and CEO of Twiga Foods. The company aggregates informal retail demand and organizes an efficient supply chain for fresh and dry goods through a tech-enabled B2B platform. Prior to that, Peter spent 21 years with The Coca-Cola Company. He was President of their West and Central Africa Business, covering…
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#1: Samuel Mensah, Founder of Kisua, on Scaling Up Authentic African Fashion
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Our very first guest is Sam Mensah Jr. Sam is Founder and CEO of the African fashion brand KISUA (www.kisua.com). The brand’s clients include award-winning musician Beyoncé, and YOOX Net-a-Porter Group, the world’s leading online luxury fashion retailer. KISUA is the only African fashion brand with distribution centers on 3 continents (Africa, Euro…
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