MEET DE SOUZA: HOW SHE TURNED SHS 100,000 TO A BUSINESS WORTH SH 40M

She made her own opportunity and has been able to earn her own living. And she made it! “Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them,” says Esmeralda De Souza, a 27 year old Kenyan lady who is the owner and the Managing Director of the thriving Spez […]

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WHY THE AFRICAN VOTER CAN NEVER GIVE UP ON AFRICAN POLITICS

It is very tempting to just give up on African politics, the politicians and all they stand for. It is very tempting to just say, I will not vote again, I will not care who is my member of parliament, senator, governor or even president for they always disappoint and we all feel used and […]

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3 OF AFRICA’S UNDER 40 MILLIONARES SHARE THEIR SUCCESS SECRETS

Jason Njoku | Age: 31 | Founder/CEO, Iroko Partners Iroko Partners is the world’s largest online distributor of Nigerian films. In an earlier interview with How we made it in Africa, Njoku described the company’s iROKOtv platform as the “Netflix of Africa”. Iroko recently received an US$8 million investment from Tiger Global Management, a New York-based […]

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A LOOK INTO KENYA’S PROPERTY MARKET IN 2013

Farhana Hassanali–Hashmani, property development manager at HassConsult, How did the market perform last year and what are your projections for 2013? Last year wasn’t the best for the industry, but I wouldn’t say it was the worst either. Overall we saw that prices began to mature and as one of the indicators of the housing […]

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WHY UHURU MAY NOT SUCCEED IN TAKING HIS CASE BACK TO PRE-TRIAL

Right after Witness Number 4 withdrew his testimony, claiming that he had been coerced into witnessing and placing Uhuru Kenyatta in a meeting with Mungiki Leaders, Uhuru’s lawyers filed and application to have his case taken back to pretrial citing the fact that the prosecution had relied heavily on witness number 4 testimony to solidify […]

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