Solar energy, fishing, and the local manufacturing of imported consumer goods identified as three promising areas for ...

Fonio – a gluten-free grain with many nutritional benefits – has been cultivated as a subsistence crop in West Africa for ...

The Africa Jobs Fund backs companies that can raise incomes for Africans, focusing on international labour mobility and ...

Our new book, How we made it in Africa II: Real stories of entrepreneurs turning opportunity into profit, is available here. The book was recently shortlisted for the Business Council for Africa (BCA) ...

Pamela Anyoti Peronaci runs Sunshine Agro Products Ltd, a company that specialises in the export of agricultural commodities from Uganda to Europe. It also markets processed items such as herbal teas, ...

Development in the African innovation ecosystem is still at the take-off stage. The level of growth witnessed in the space is still a country mile away from those achieved in America’s Silicon Valley ...

FreshSource Global, founded in 2018, is an Egyptian B2B agricultural supply chain platform that buys fresh produce directly from farmers and delivers it to businesses such as restaurants, retailers, ...

Forest Africa Zambia, an agro-processing company located in Chilanga, Zambia, produces juices and other products from wild fruits. In this interview with Jeanette Clark, co-founder Frazer Handondo ...

Grey Matlock Bakery, a Canadian-based business, was established in 2018 by Adewale Rabiu, who relocated from Nigeria to Ontario in 2016. Upon arrival, he noticed the absence of his beloved Lagos food, ...

We speak to Titus Mboko, the managing director of Grain Solutions Agro Industries, a Zimbabwean company that produces maize meal, bread flour and animal feed. The business is based in the city of ...

In the early 1990s, Kola Adeniji quit his job at Guinness Nigeria to start his own business, Niji Lukas, a mechanical engineering service aimed at solving some of the processing challenges faced by ...

Fast-growing trade, digital – and soon, physical – links across the Sahara are changing Egypt's role on the continent, in what could mark the first stirrings of a regional trade behemoth. In August, ...