Recorded live at AFSIC, the continent’s leading investment conference connecting investors, dealmakers, and African business leaders.
Scaling Agricultural Investment in Africa
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We listed three African companies on the Mauritian stock exchange in a single day, a meat processor from Rwanda, an agro-vet supplier from Malawi, and Africa Eats too. In this podcast, Luni Libes, Africa Eats’ CEO, explains how and why we did that. In this episode, we break down how we took SMEs public, why we created Africa’s first equity market maker, and how African founders can...
We often talk about the resiliency of African entrepreneurs, and how the bizi founders refuse to give up when business gets difficult. Well… once upon a time, there was a $1.1 million annual revenue bizi whose revenues dropped to zero when a flood wiped out all of their farmers’ crops. I less resilient entrepreneur would have stepped away for good. Brigitha Faustin is not one to give...
African stock exchanges are notoriously illiquid. It is not uncommon on the Stock Exchange of Mauritius for 1/3rd of the companies to have no trades at all. Which is why Tuesday Markets was created, to create liquidity in African markets, starting with registering as a market maker for EATS, ELIT and ZWTO. And that effort is working. Below is an article from a Mauritian business magazine talking...
In terms of global population, Africa is by far the fastest growing region. 1.4 billion people today, expected to grow past 2 billion in next 20 years. Those huge numbers are hard to grasp. They boil down to 2.5 million more people living in Africa… each month. 2.5 million more people who need to eat… every day. 5 million every two months. 10 million every four months. 30 million more...