Women in African entrepreneurship are not a new story. African women have been trading, farming, selling, building, and leading businesses for centuries. What is new, in 2025, is the scale — and the growing recognition that if Africa wants to build a strong, inclusive economy, it cannot afford to ignore the force that is already powering it. In Sub-Saharan Africa,…
Every morning across Africa, a woman wakes up before dawn to open her small food stall. She has loyal customers. She has a product people genuinely need. What she does not have is a loan to buy a larger freezer, stock more goods, or hire one extra hand to help…
I want to open with something we have discovered over time. Over the past few years, our research team at MOHAC AFRICA has sat across young founders in Lagos, Nairobi, Accra and other parts of Africa, who built real businesses with little more than a smartphone, a market gap, and…
Our research team at MOHAC AFRICA spends a lot of time talking to Nigerians about money. Not through surveys, but in real conversations. A few months ago, one of our researchers sat with a 29-year-old graphic designer in Lagos who said something we have not been able to forget: "My…
There is a common belief that building a business in Africa means fighting for scraps that funding is scarce, reserved for a handful of countries, and largely inaccessible to the average founder. After years of working closely with African entrepreneurs across education, health, and entrepreneurship, we can tell you that…
Women in African entrepreneurship are not a new story. African women have been trading, farming, selling, building, and leading businesses for centuries. What is new, in 2025, is the scale — and the growing recognition that if Africa wants to build a strong, inclusive economy, it cannot afford to ignore…
Africa holds 18% of the world's population, contributes 5% of global GDP, yet receives less than 1% of global venture capital each year. That single fact has stayed with me throughout my years of working with African entrepreneurs, researchers, and business owners across the continent. The gap is not explained…
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