African Entrepreneurship

Turn your Ideas into Profit by Starting a Thriving Business in South Africa Do you have a brilliant idea and the drive to succeed—but feel stuck on where to begin? Whether you're dreaming of launching a shop, starting a home-based business, building an online store, or developing something completely new, this book is your step-by-step guide to turning your vision into reality. Starting a business in South Africa can feel overwhelming. From navigating confusing regulations and registering your business to finding funding and attracting customers—it’s easy to feel lost. That’s ...

Risk and Return is the story of one man’s return to Africa - a journey that begins with a search for self-fulfillment, which then evolves into an entrepreneurial adventure filled with tribulations, triumphs, and many life lessons that will keep listeners engaged from start to finish. In a casual conversational voice, the author, Yomi Jemibewon, gives an honest, often hilarious and sometimes sobering account of what it feels like to chase a dream under highly uncertain circumstances.

Will Africa be the world's next hub of manufacturing? China is answering in the affirmative and investing accordingly. This book dispels the notion that this crucial story is merely about China's exploitation of Africa's resources, illuminating deep questions about our own Western approach to development and the implications for the future of manufacturing. The fact that China sees Africa not for its poverty but for its potential wealth is a striking departure from the attitude of the West, in particular the United States.

The road to success is rarely linear and never easy. But with courage, hard work, perseverance, and dedication to duty, Jim Ovia, founder and chairman of Zenith Bank, proves we can achieve the unthinkable. Jim has been called the Godfather of Banking by Forbes Africa. And this should be no surprise. In a time of tension between military and civilian regimes, periods of incredible economic instability, and a decaying infrastructure, Jim founded Zenith Bank in Nigeria.

It is hard work to get the African to be positive about Africa. While others are coming to African in numbers the sons and daughters of Africa are finding all ways and means to get out of African to find better life. Some say it is economic migration, but I say it is part of the results of the constant assaults that we have gone through as Africans for centuries. It takes a lot of courage and strength to be confident and positive as an African and about Africa. Resilience is that divine power within that keeps on energizing us, inspiring us as we build our businesses as entrepreneurs on the...

In The Billionaire Mindset, Daniel Strauss, the Strauss in the investment firm Stocks & Strauss, and a highly successful venture capitalist, explains how to adopt this life-changing new mindset. He shares his secrets of success, including how to access capital, where to find the right people to help you reach your goals, and explains how to free your mind from self-imposed limitations, so that you can also think like a billionaire.

Making Futures brings together 18 young entrepreneurs from 14 countries doing incredible work across the continent. Their stories are both inspirational and aspirational, providing a template for listeners who might be interested in embarking on their own entrepreneurial journey, and allowing others to see the incredible energy and work that is happening across the continent.

An astonishing 94.6 percent of businesses fail to sell. They close at an enormous cost to the owner, their family, their staff and the economy. Most business owners realise too late that there are only two destinations for any business: a sale or closure. You’ve got to build to $ell. Sweat, Scale, Sell shares real business-building stories about how ordinary business owners took charge of their fate using the Asset of Value™ method.

Embark on a captivating journey through the heart of Juba, South Sudan, with Entrepreneurship: An Introduction, a book that stitches together the vibrant fabric of African culture with the threads of digital innovation. This is not just a story; it’s a movement, a testament to the power of dreams and the digital tools that can make them a reality. Discover the world of Panyim, a young and passionate entrepreneur whose traditional clothing shop, Nile Threads, becomes a canvas for his dreams. But when the dreams are big, the challenges rise to meet them. Panyim’s struggle with the ...

John H. Johnson, the remarkable entrepreneur who founded the Ebony publishing empire, tells the story of his success. The wealthiest African-American in the US today, Johnson shares his rags to riches saga, from the many obstacles that confronted him to his ultimate triumph.

Greatness comes from acting on purpose, and there is a generation of South Africans solving problems for the future. Learn how Pratley beat Armstrong to the moon, how a former Eskom quantity surveyor capitalised on Britain’s obsession with meerkats to create the UK’s most visible price comparison website, how to take a Mediterranean-style food concept to the Mediterranean, and how a device designed to beat diamond smuggling made it from the set of a popular US hospital drama into emergency rooms and pathology labs across the US.

For African Americans contemplating getting into Internet entrepreneurship and for those who might already be entrepreneurs, this book explains in a practical manner how to become an Internet entrepreneur from an African American perspective. From inception to exit, this book also gives you practical knowledge that you can use right away for any type of potential business endeavor.

David L. Steward is an American billionaire businessman, philanthropist, and the founder and chairman of World Wide Technology (WWT), one of the largest African-American-owned businesses in the U.S. Born in 1951 in Chicago, Illinois, he built WWT into a global technology powerhouse with billions in revenue. Despite early struggles, his faith, resilience, and strategic vision propelled him to success. He is also known for his philanthropic efforts, ethical leadership, and commitment to empowering others, making him a respected figure in both business and social impact.

Welcome to “AfriCAN” - the can-do continent, the vast, vibrant, and diverse continent offering a wealth of human and natural resources that translate into opportunities for business - your business. Complicated? Not necessarily. Africa, with all its diversity and largesse, can be difficult to understand and to grasp. Just like most new business ventures. However, successful business in Africa is as straightforward as ABC: Appetite, Bandwidth, and Capital.

Wins, losses, lessons and laughs. From 'naughty lists' to sprinting swans, wandering ducks to Amarula-based incentives, The First Kudu takes you on the roller coaster ride of a start-up and dives into real learnings along the way. The narrative invites you to journey through the chaos with the young team, and unpacks in gritty detail what goes into building a tech start-up—with stories of fun and failure honestly told in equal measure.

It will take the conscious African to fight for the freedom of our people. The others fight for their personal greatness, pride and comfort. What we need to do is to raise the consciousness of the generation that will get many of our people to live the African Advantage. The right financial intelligence is key, knowing systems thinking, self education and the ability to create wealth will make many of our people to live in the African Advantage. The blessings we have as Africans and the blessings of Africa, the beauty and the endowment. It is our duty to tool many of our people in the ...

The opportunities that we look for are within us. We create the opportunities we want in life. Wrong orientation can make us believe that there are no opportunities where we are. Looking at the structure of our economy and industries, entrepreneurship is where any of us can start with nothing and still become hugely successful. There are no entry requirements and nothing prevents any of us from becoming an entrepreneur. We have the best of our dreams by becoming entrepreneurs. Many hurdles, criticisms, losses, doubts, etc. We win if we don’t give up. It is life long journey of learning. ...

With twenty years of experience in frontier markets, including a decade working in Africa, author Jonathan Berman engages with top business leaders on the vast opportunities and challenges of the continent. Success in Africa pushes past the headlines on Africa's growth to answer the questions often asked by companies and investors: Who do I work with there and what drives them? How do I deal with government? What about war, disease, and poverty? What about China? How do I win?

Kochia, a sleepy community on the shores of Lake Victoria in Western Kenya, is caught in the turmoil among traditional ways of life, excitement brought about by development projects and the throes of relentless globalization. Cellphones are spreading HIV and funerals are killing people. Cows are drowning in enormous holes dug by white people. Girls are dropping out of school and children are being rented to orphanages. Crusades and miracle services are blurring the lines between religion and crime. Along with the rapidly declining fish population in the lake, the time to ‘teach people how...

Knowing our African history repairs our mind for success and we cannot play with the importance of African history. It instills confidence, dignity, and completeness in the Africans, in a world that sees Africa as poor, underdeveloped, and unaccomplished. African history gives us a strong African identity and self-confidence. One of the ways to get many of our people to believe in our continent is to teach many of our people our history. The desire for dignity and personality development comes from the history that we know about us that makes us confident. The knowledge of our history makes...