Tag: African entrepreneurs

Winners Announced at 2025 African Business Chamber (AfBC) Awards

The African Business Chamber (AfBC) celebrated the winners of the 2025 AfBC African Business Awards in a glamorous ceremony at the Millennium Conference and Hotel Kensington, London. The awards recognized excellence in African business leadership across 14 categories, including finance, healthcare, technology, and social enterprise. Notable winners included Said Adren, CEO of Bank of Africa (BOA UK), who was honored as the Top 100 Business Leader of the Year. Distinguished guests, dignitaries, and diplomats attended the event, which featured dynamic entertainment and live performances. AfBC also announced major events for 2025 and 2026, including the UK–Africa Business Forum and the next AfBC Awards.

Pay-as-you-go everything – innovation, the African way

You cannot simply copy and paste a business model that has worked internationally and expect it to work in Africa. If you want to do business in Africa, you need to operate in a way that takes the nuances of the continent into account.
This is the opinion of Reach Africa’s Sales Director and specialist in the streaming space – Leslie Adams, where he postulates why incremental purchasing has been so successful across the continent, and how we’re seeing more examples of businesses that are rolling out this “pay as you go” model at scale, thanks to the advent of technology.

Digitisation as Africa’s Great Equaliser in Financial Services

Access to financial services in Africa had for decades been defined by disparities—between rural and urban areas, between men and women, between small businesses and larger enterprises. It meant that millions, especially the continent’s most vulnerable populations, were excluded from the formal economy, curbing entrepreneurship, restricting access to credit, and stifling upward financial mobility for far too long. 

Embracing the entrepreneurial mindset: Lessons from the trenches

South Africa has seen a surge in entrepreneurial ambition, with more than half of the country’s youth showing interest in starting their own businesses despite the challenges in accessing funding and resources. Daniel Levy, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Flow, understands these hurdles first-hand.
In his latest piece, “Embracing the Entrepreneurial Mindset: Lessons from the Trenches,” he shares five lessons from his journey as an entrepreneur, offering insights on how to cultivate the mindset needed to navigate unpredictable markets and build lasting success.