Africa is at an inflection point. The poor decisions of our past are catching up with us and if we want to survive the economic storm of the next 30 years, we need to drastically change the way we think about our priorities.  In this episode, I discuss Africa’s biggest missed opportunity, and provide a solution for what the continent needs to do, to meaningfully improve the lives of its people.

In the teaser trailer for episode 2 of Tsholofelo on Business, I tell a really interesting story about how Zambia and Ghana completely fumbled an opportunity to catapult their respective countries forward and position themselves as global economic powerhouses.

First world ideas in a third world continent. Businesses all across Africa are developing some of the most impressive solutions to modern day problems. Despite this, the general consensus is that Africa’s business environment has begun rolling down a very dangerous hill. A slippery slope where business solutions are informed by the availability of funding, as opposed to being informed by the intensity of the need. In this episode, I discuss whether African entrepreneurs are innovating for...

Over the past 15 years, a significant amount of money, and an even more significant amount of energy has been invested in cultivating a culture of modern innovation in Africa. Despite this, and despite numerous innovations whose praises have been sung from Cape to Cairo, the primary everyday challenges facing the average rural and semi-urban African household, still remain unresolved. This set of circumstances beg the question, are African Businesses innovating to solve Africa’s main...