How to Make It in Africa
6 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWelcome to How to Make It in Africa. This podcast will bring you some of the best stories of African entrepreneurship. African entrepreneurs have their own great successes, and they will be on this show to share them.
We will have in-depth conversations with entrepreneurs, creatives and other changemakers.
Together with our exciting guests, we will explore and dissect their motivations, their challenges, and the strategies to succeed across Africa and to build businesses that scale regionally and internationally.
Enjoy and thank you for listening.
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Episodes
Season Finale: Navalayo Osembo, Co-Founder of Enda, on Building an International Sportswear Brand Made in Africa
June 17, 2021 16:15 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBNavalayo is co-founder and CEO of Enda Athletic, Inc. She's a graduate of the London School of Economics, and has worked internationally including the U.S., UK, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Kenya where she utilizes her diverse skills as an accountant, a lawyer, risk manager, and in international development. She's from a town near Eldoret, Kenya, that has produced generations of the world's greatest distance runners. Prior to creating Enda, Navalayo started a sports academy in Bungoma, Western Keny...
#5: Martin Nielsen, Founder of Mdundo, on Re-Imagining the African Music Experience
May 14, 2021 21:22 - 1 hour - 43.3 MBMartin is the co-founder and CEO of Mdundo. He moved to Kenya in 2012 as Entrepreneur in Residence for 88mph, an African investment fund with a focus on early-stage tech startups in Kenya. Over the past 5 years, Mdundo has grown to one of Africa’s leading music services with more than 7,000,000 monthly active users, primarily from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana and Nigeria. The company works with 90,000 musicians across Africa and has a licensing deal with Warner Music Group, Believe Digital ...
#4: Nisha Kanabar, Founder of Industrie Africa, on Building a Global Digital Window into Local African Fashion
February 19, 2021 11:22 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MBOur guest is Nisha Kanabar. Nisha Kanabar is a curator and storyteller, and the founder of Industrie Africa. A Tanzanian of Indian origin, Kanabar graduated from Parsons School of Design in New York, and went on to forge a career in luxury fashion and publishing. With over a decade of experience at renowned industry names, she held formative positions at American Vogue, Vogue India and Style.com in the Middle East. Her experience across international markets fuel the desire to channel her wor...