Thursday, November 5, 2026
Issue No. 214 — The Energy Issue
Thursday, November 5, 2026
Issue No. 214 — The Energy Issue
Features
Founder profiles, company spotlights, entrepreneur interviews, SME features, business success stories and profiles of influential business leaders.
INTERVIEWS
Conversations with founders
Lagos
Founder & CEO, Voltaic
“The grid is the last monopoly nobody dared to question. So we stopped asking.”
Accra
Co-founder & CEO, PayBridge
“Every border in Africa is a payments problem waiting for a company.”
Johannesburg
CEO, Ubuntu Logistics
“Logistics is a trust business disguised as a trucking business.”
Nairobi
Founder, Harvest Ledger
“Farmers never needed an app. They needed credit that showed up on time.”
Dakar
Founder & CEO, Teranga Foods
“A great brand is a promise you keep in every market.”
Abuja
Founder & CEO, Basalt
“Lists are lovely, but the climate does not read them.”
PEOPLE & COMPANIES
Profiles and company spotlights
Retail
Oct 28
Fatou Diallo’s company now sells in eleven countries. It started with one recipe and a borrowed oven.
Founders
Oct 21
After forty years in textiles, she started a company. Investors finally caught up.
SMEs
Oct 16
From a Kampala dairy to a Durban bike-repair chain, the small firms that punched above their weight.
The business stories worth knowing.
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