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VENTURES AFRICA – In today’s edition of Africa’s Most Innovative Companies, Ventures Africa speaks to Verone Mankou, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of VMK – producers of arguably the first African designed smartphone – about his ambitions to make the technological “DNA” of businesses available and affordable to African entrepreneurs. Mankou early on placed large [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Business in opened in Africa and the former “hopeless” continent is thriving with trade and investment opportunities. Africa is seeing increased Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and its major companies are also divesting business operations overseas. ‘African companies going global have reached unprecedented heights in recent years. These companies’ overseas expansion is characterised by [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – In this week’s edition of Africa’s Most Innovative Companies, Hannah Kirkpatrick introduces the work of Syntek Global, a company providing an innovative new fuel treatment for engines to Africa and empowering local individuals to become entrepreneurs. Syntek Global is responsible for the exciting new engine treatment product known as Xtreme Fuel Treatment [...]

VENTURES AFRICA- The power of the internet was made evident during the Arab Spring in North Africa last year. Rachid Dahbi founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of social polling company Averty speaks to Ventures Africa about the company’s pursuant ambitions to empower people to make their voices heard. Averty was born out of the [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – In today’s Christmas edition of Africa’s Most Innovative Companies, Herman and Lucy Bigham – co-founders of social enterprise Tosheka Textiles – speak to Ventures Africa about the benefits of implementing a creative new business to address environmental problems while empowering the economically challenged. Tosheka Textiles is a green textiles company, which focuses [...]

VENTURES AFRICA - After a wonderful year for businesses across Africa, an euphoria of greater success is what every entrepreneur, CEO and businessman carries into 2013. Ventures Africa has been reporting on African entrepreneurs and businesses throughout 2012, and in this piece we have identified the Top 5 Best Companies in Africa. This list comprises [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Merry Christmas! Festivities this holiday season and the end of the year seems to usher in, apart from gifts, an influx of expenses, rush hour demands, and inflated prices, while consumers are looking to cut cost; nobody wants to kick-off a fresh year with bleeding pockets. Here are great deals from reliable [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – 2012 has been a big year for consumer tech products, with a range of new smartphones, visual technologies and entertainment products being released over the course of the year. Ventures Africa now presents the Top 5 Gadgets of 2012, according to us. iPhone 5 Indeed, the biggest thing to happen to iPhone [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Africa has become a hotspot for development over the past year, with investors flocking to the continent and companies vying to position themselves to benefit from the economic boom Africa is starting to experience. An imperative factor in economic development, however, is strong infrastructure, and 2012 has seen a number of important [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – In this week’s edition of Africa’s Most Innovative Companies, Ventures Africa speaks to Johnson Dunmoye Chief Executive Officer of Websoft, a Nigerian company dedicated to providing web, mobile and enterprise solutions. As undergraduates studying at the prestigious University of Ibadan, the Websoft founders began to play with the idea of setting up a [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – In today’s edition of Africa’s Most Innovative Companies, Ventures Africa meets the creator of Dream Mobile. Having first started work on building a smartphone from his university dormitory, Reza Handley-Namavar speaks about his new smartphones specifically designed for Africa. The idea to build a bespoke smartphone for Africa was born two years [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Of the 11 Nigerians ranked on the Africa’s 40 Richest list, three have stood out in a record charity donation to government efforts at mitigating the effects of unprecedented floods that ravaged the central and eastern region of Nigeria, killing thousands, displacing millions more and destroying properties worth millions of dollars. In no respective order, [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – As we continue with our weekly feature – Africa’s Secret Millionaires- , Ventures Africa’s wealth team will continue to uncover several low-key, ultra-wealthy entrepreneurs across the continent. Each of them is worth more than $50 million at the very least. This week, we uncover a South African millionaire you probably never heard [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – In this week’s edition of Africa’s Most Innovative Companies we meet Youngsoul Synergy and Creations – a team dedicated to causing a tech revolution in Nigeria’s education sector. Omole Akinbiyi introduces us to Youngsoul’s latest product, 360jobtest, which promotes and supports the young job seeking population of the West African country. The [...]

This story was featured in Ventures Africa magazine’s October/November Edition….   VENTURES AFRICA – According to oral tradition, when the Bafokeng or “people of the dew” first settled in 1450, the valley in which they did so experienced heavy overnight dew, holding the promise that the land would be fertile and that, in turn, the [...]