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Articles by Emeka Ajene

Based in Lagos, Nigeria, Emeka is the Founder of Afridigest, a media and strategic intelligence platform focused on African markets, and Co-founder and former CEO of Gozem, a super app operating across multiple markets in Francophone West and Central Africa. He is a Foundry Fellow of the MIT Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship and the author of African Founders at Work (Apress/Springer Nature, forthcoming 2026). Follow him on Linkedin and Twitter.

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Beyond handouts: Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli on Africa’s opportunity-driven future

The ONE Campaign CEO argues that Africa's 2.5 billion population by 2050 demands partnership-based engagement to power global growth, not charity.

September 2025
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‘Capital with context’: Kola Aina on why Africa needs local capital to complement foreign investors

The Ventures Platform founder explains the unique value local fund managers & angel investors bring to Africa's innovation ecosystem — and why it's not a zero-sum game.

September 2025
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TymeBank and Deel are rewriting Africa’s EWA playbook

TymeBank's earned wage access partnership with Deel Local Payroll is a live case study on how competitive dynamics can be rewritten in an instant. Welcome to unicorn-scale competition.

September 2025
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From ‘made from Africa’ to ‘made in Africa’: Gagan Gupta on building Africa’s industrial sovereignty

ARISE IIP's founder is creating industrial ecosystems across the African continent to transform raw materials locally and reclaim billions in economic value.

September 2025
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“Africans must not fear Africa”: Mo Ibrahim’s call for self-investment

Having sold Celtel for $3.4 billion when few believed in Africa’s promise, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation chair now urges African investors & institutions to bet on the continent, not abroad.

September 2025
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How Tosin Eniolorunda built Nigeria’s largest business payments platform

In a prescient 2022 interview, Tosin Eniolorunda outlined the exact strategy that would make his company Nigeria's newest billion-dollar startup two years later.

September 2025