WHAT IS THE BEST ADVICE YOU HAVE EVER BEEN GIVEN? To manage mortality by making sure that I follow a proper health plan to produce healthy pigs. And, secondly, never to compromise on quality. IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WOULD HAVE DONE DIFFERENTLY IF YOU COULD? I should have applied for larger capacity when we did […]
What inspired you to start your company? After reading a book in college about the Starbucks Story, I got inspired to dream about starting an indigenous Nigerian coffee brand in the future. Why should anyone use your service or product? We started our brand by promoting Nigerian Grown Coffee. That has given us an edge […]
What inspired you to start your company? My country is, like most of our African countries, poor – not in resources, but in mentality. I’ve always dreamed of becoming famous and having HD pictures and videos of myself, I’ve always felt like a superstar. So when I was 12, I started to become more worried […]
For all those people who love nothing more than getting outdoors into the fresh air with family, friends, and colleagues, then a picnic is the way to go, and in Mozambique, entrepreneurs Yolanda Matine and Sheila Loonat, cofounders of Azura, have just what you need. Their business specializes in selling and renting picnic hampers with […]
Through Skin Gourmet, entrepreneur Violet Amoabeng has learned about the beauty of Ghana, and her company’s products are all handmade using traditional Ghanaian methods that keep the product in its rawest form while increasing the efficacy of the ingredients. Violet has always been a lover of mother earth and is trying to create a unique […]
Book Review In her inspirational book, Unlocked: How Empowered Women Empower Women, author Jane Finette reflects on how, according to the World Economic Forum, women lost thirty-six years of progress in 2020 alone, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s an entire generation lost. But by empowering one another, women can help each other to realize […]
by Laura Camacho You are surely familiar with email drama. Perhaps you got involved in one yourself, where the misinterpretation of a message, or one that got sent to the wrong person, spun off into a totally unproductive soap opera segment. It’s good to remember that everything you write actually can be used against you, […]
by Nkemdilim Uwaje Begho One of my mantras is “go where your customers are”…. and inboxes are one of those places you will find them! Studies have shown that people working in corporate environments easily spend between 4–6 hours every day doing their emails. Whether you are focused on a B2C segment within a […]
by Eldari Visser This time of the year is when writers like to look back and reminisce on the year just gone and to get new ideas. Let’s get it clear – this past year was like flat green cold tea! Yuck. We can all do with something new. So as I am walking along […]
by Mandisa Makubalo “The greater the adoption the wider the experience divide.” Today’s temperature is a scorching hot 35 degrees, the kind of weather that is unbearable for most households, especially those in the townships due to the quality of the housing structures. Most people are sitting outside their houses, children are playing in the […]