Africa’s Business Heroes is a seven-month competition that winnows tens of thousands of African entrepreneurs down to 10 on-stage live on TV, to 3 for a final stage of Q&A with live judges, to 1 grand prize winner.
The 2022 Africa Business Hero is Elia Timotheo, founder/CEO of East Africa Fruits.
East Africa Fruits is the oldest and largest of the Africa Eats bizi, and as such, we’re delighted but not at all surprised at this result. 🙂
The GDP per capita metric is helpful to gauge the level of economic development within a region, but misleading in that the metric gets skewed by extraction-based industries like mining and oil (which is why Botswana, Namibia, and Gabon) are higher than their neighboring countries). Visual Capitalist has published a map of the per-capital GDPs of most of the African nations (in most cases rounded...
Luni and Jumaane, the co-founders of Africa Eats have published a book, “Berkshire Africa” that explains how our unique investment company has applied the learnings of venture capital, business accelerators, and Berkshire Hathaway toward solving hunger and poverty across Africa. We’ve explained this before, in brief, but now have a 160-page book with far more details, including...
Over half of all working age Sub-Saharan Africans work in agriculture. More than 1/3rd in Nigeria, the most populous country. 1/3rd in Kenya. Even 19% in South Africa, despite its head start development. As a comparison, less than 2% of Europeans and less than 2% of Americans work in agriculture. The contribution of agriculture to GDP disproportionate, but that is an artifact of the way GDP is...
Gertrude Matche of Diversity Connector talked with Luni Libes, Africa Eats’ co-founder/CEO about the challenges of solving hunger and poverty in Africa, and the path Africa Eats has taken to impact those pressing issues… as a for-profit investor.
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