This is the one where a company spends a hundred and eleven years never once being made to pay for anything it did, and then gets handed a bill for the only thing it got right. Let…
This is the story of the oldest supermarket chain in Kenya. A company that Kenyan industrial policy invented in nineteen seventy five, that Kenyan retail investors bought into on t…
This is the story of a Nakuru mattress shop that grew, in twenty five years, into the largest supermarket chain on the eastern side of the continent. And then, in the space of thir…
Two South African brothers built a payments and cash-management platform for the spaza shops, kiosks and micro-merchants that the country's retail banks and card networks quietly s…
This is the story of Fuzu. The company built from a single moment when fifteen hundred people applied for one Nairobi driver job. The company that outlasted a decade of African onl…
This is the story of Tugende. The company that bet everything on the credit of people banks refused to see, built an empire one daily payment at a time, lost its footing at the wor…
