Impact Connectors

01/05/2026

🌍 Africa Month is here, and so are real partnership opportunities!
On behalf of the African Embassies in Sweden, Impact Connectors is pleased to support the Africa Day 2026 Business Seminar in Stockholm (28 May), bringing together Nordic and African stakeholders to move beyond dialogue and into concrete partnerships and investment pathways.

This is not a typical networking event.
✔ 35+ companies and institutions already confirmed
✔ Strong focus on B2B & B2A matchmaking
✔ Sector-focused roundtables and targeted discussions
✔ Direct access to African decision-makers

With participation across sectors such as energy, agribusiness, mining, infrastructure, innovation, and more, this is a curated platform for serious engagement.

NB: Participation is complimentary for selected Africa-focused companies and investors. It is subject to confirmation to ensure meaningful alignment.

Impact Connectors will be supporting the alignment of Nordic companies with relevant country-sector opportunities, helping translate conversations into real partnerships and investment outcomes.

🚀 Interested?
Message Impact Connectors directly or comment below to explore participation and alignment.

17/12/2025

Impact Connectors | Year-End Reflection

As we approach the close of 2025, we do so with deep gratitude for a year marked by meaningful collaborations, trusted partnerships, and continued engagement from both new and returning clients.

This past year took us across boardrooms, policy dialogues, business seminars, strategy sessions and cross-regional events, all centred on advancing responsible, future-oriented collaboration between the Nordics and Southern African markets.

2025 has been a year of growth, evolution and renewed purpose. The momentum we’ve built together culminated in an important milestone: the transition from Afrika Consultancy to Impact Connectors, a name that more accurately reflects who we are, the work we do, and the impact we are committed to creating across regions.

We were also privileged to close the year at the Nordic–Africa Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. A powerful reminder of the scale of opportunity and dialogue shaping the Nordic–Africa agenda.
With this post, we are pleased to share a few pictures capturing the energy and spirit of that final event of 2025.

As we step into 2026, our focus remains clear: to deepen existing relationships, build new strategic partnerships, and continue bridging the Nordics and wider Northern Europe with Southern Africa, in ways that are sustainable, credible and commercially meaningful.

👉If you are an organisation, investor, institution or innovator exploring collaboration, market entry or impact-aligned growth across these regions in 2026, we would welcome the conversation. Let’s build what’s next, together.

Thank you for being part of the journey. We look forward to co-creating, partnering and delivering impact in 2026 and beyond.

🎄With compliments of the season🎄

11/12/2025

🚀 LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT
We are excited to announce the transition of Afrika Consultancy into Impact Connectors, a renewed platform dedicated to strengthening responsible, purpose-driven partnerships between Northern Europe (with a focus on the Nordic region) and Southern Africa.

This evolution reflects our expanded focus on ESG-aligned advisory, sustainable market entry, and cross-regional collaboration. After more than a decade of supporting Nordic companies and institutions engaging with African markets, this new identity captures who we are, what we stand for, and where we are heading.

✨ We are also delighted to launch our new website:
👉 www.impact-connectors.com
We invite you to explore our refreshed platform and learn more about our work, services and regional focus.

WELCOME TO IMPACT CONNECTORS!
Bridging the Nordics and Southern Africa for Sustainable Growth.
👉 If you or your organisation is exploring partnerships, market entry or impact-driven opportunities across the Nordic–Southern Africa corridor, we would be delighted to connect. Let's create impact together!

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10/10/2025

🌍 Strengthening Africa–Nordic Partnerships | Danish Business Delegation to Zimbabwe.

A week ago (3 October), the 22nd Africa–Nordic Foreign Ministers’ Meeting concluded in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, bringing together leaders under the theme “Leveraging Technology and Collaboration for Future-Ready Societies.”

The meeting reaffirmed shared commitments to innovation, sustainable development, and stronger trade and investment relations between the two regions.

In the days leading up to the event, Afrika Consultancy led a Danish Business Delegation in Harare, organised in partnership with the Danish Agriculture and Food Council and , aligning business engagement with the high-level policy dialogue that followed in Victoria Falls.

At the ministerial level, the Danish State Secretary for Foreign Policy, Lotte Machon , led the Danish delegation and represented the Minister in the discussion on framework conditions for trade and investment in Africa at the amazing Lookout Café in Victoria Falls.

Afrika Consultancy was honoured to contribute alongside Danish business delegates, Zimbabwean business leaders,
🇩🇰 Ambassador Karin Poulsen (Danish Ambassador to Zimbabwe and Southern Africa)
and Ketil Karlsen (Africa Director, Danish MFA).

It was inspiring to see how policy-level cooperation and private sector engagement can reinforce each other when built on mutual respect, innovation, and shared goals.

For Afrika Consultancy, this is a continuation of a long-term, sustainable partnership platform connecting Nordic and Southern & Eastern African businesses — turning conversations into measurable collaboration and impact.

19/08/2025

We are delighted to announce that the official participation link is here! Join us at the Nordic–Southern & Eastern Africa Business & Partnership Forum, hosted at Tetra Pak Global HQ Lund, Sweden.

This unique forum brings together Swedish companies, investors, African embassies, and entrepreneurs for a day of dialogue, matchmaking, and opportunity-building. It’s designed to unlock investment potential, strengthen embassy–business relations, and position Nordic companies for proactive engagement in Southern & Eastern Africa.

Highlights include:
• Real business case studies & African success stories
• Country-focused panel discussions with Ambassadors/commercial counsellors and business people
• Business culture insights
• Guided Innovation Tour at Tetra Pak HQ
• Matchmaking & embassy country desks

Who should attend?
• Swedish companies with Africa-facing interests (energy, health, food & agriculture, infrastructure, digitalisation, mining, manufacturing, climate-smart solutions)
• Investors & DFIs
• African SMEs & entrepreneurs
• Government & trade institutions

Spaces are limited—don’t miss out! Read more and register below:

👉 Register now:

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13/06/2025

THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!
Reflections & Highlights from our event - “Unlocking Investment Potential & Strengthening Nordic–Southern African Business Partnerships” – 12 June 2025 at EIFO.

Held as a prelude to the Nordic–Africa Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Victoria Falls this October, yesterday’s gathering was more than an event—it was a convergence of minds, markets, and momentum.

We welcomed visionary voices from Denmark, Zimbabwe, Angola and beyond to ignite bold dialogue on doing business in Southern Africa.

💡 Key takeaways:
🔹 Zimbabwe is open for business. Supa Collins Mandiwanzira emphasized the time to invest is now, backed by protections, skilled labour, and strategic access. His video on Nyanga revealed both stunning tourism appeal and real sector opportunities.

🔹 Ideas to Impact. Alun Hart shared how Navaco became Zimbabwe’s largest avocado processor—from concept to execution—with 60% female staff and purpose-driven growth.
🔹 Henrik Wollesen (Engsko A/S) spoke on how local manufacturing and skilled Zimbabwean labour power their global operations.
🔹Ole Haubro (Aller Aqua) reminded us that local partnerships, swift decisions, and community reinvestment are key to scaling aquaculture in Africa.
🔹 Sérgio E. de L. Ferreira joined us from Angola, sharing reflections as someone who studied in Denmark and returned to Angola to build inclusive solutions that merge Nordic standards with African ambition.

With gratitude to:
✅ Our speakers & panelists: Supa Collins Mandiwanzira, Alun Hart, Henrik Wollesen, Ole Haubro & Sergio Ferreira
✅ Moderator Tichaona Maphosa for your skilled guidance and CHARLES KINGA®™ for your support
✅ Portia Ngundu & the Zimbabwean Embassy, Sweden for your continued partnership
✅ The Embassies of Ghana & Tanzania for your presence
✅ EIFO & Access2innovation for the partnership
✅ And to everyone who joined us - you made this impactful!

With over 300 million consumers in SADC, Southern Africa offers a mosaic of opportunity-rich ecosystems, from food security to tech innovation.

There was a clear sense in the room that together, we can move mountains. As Portia Ngundu noted, “It’s time. It’s no longer business as usual - it’s about building sustainable business partnerships.”

And as Florence Charamba of Afrika Consultancy concluded:
“Let’s continue turning dialogue into partnership and potential into action.”
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Mette Skindhøj Johnson Thomas Augustinus - thank you for the co-creation.

25/05/2025

📣 BIG NEWS from Afrika Consultancy!

On this special Africa Day, we’re proud to share that our founder, Florence S. Charamba (Christensen), has just released her long-anticipated book:

📘 A Guide to Doing Business in Southern Africa.

Now available in Kindle and Hardcover, with the Paperback launching tomorrow, 26 May!

After 18 years since her first publication, Florence returns as an author, offering her “two cents” on a topic that’s at the heart of our work: doing business in Africa with insight, purpose, and cultural intelligence.

This book is more than a business manual, it’s a practical, insider’s guide rooted in Florence’s personal heritage and decades of hands on experience across Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zambia, and South Africa.

It’s written for:

✅ Entrepreneurs
✅ Investors & VCs
✅ Strategic leaders looking to grow in Southern Africa
✅ Nordic–Africa partnerships ready to scale with context

🌟 Special thanks go to:

Our strategic partners and clients in both the Nordic and Southern African markets

The inspiring women of Connecting Women in Business (South Africa & Zimbabwe)
Frederik Ottesen, Founder of Little Sun (Zambia)
Itayi Garande at Dean Thompson Publishing
...and every voice that shaped this book through dialogue, collaboration, and shared vision.

📖 Grab your Kindle or Hardcopy today: A Guide to Doing Business in Southern Africa: Beyond the Bottom Line: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9J95NCB?ref_=pe_93986420_774957520

📅 Paperback available Monday, 26 May 2025

Let’s build with insight.
Let’s grow with context.
Let’s do business in Southern Africa, the Southern African way!

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06/10/2024

Inauguration of The Nordic-Africa Women’s Health Forum:

🌍 On Friday, 4 October, Afrika Consultancy was thrilled to attend and lead the Q & A session at the inaugural Nordic-Africa Women's Health Forum, organized by female African ambassadors in Sweden and co-hosted by Ferring Pharmaceuticals.

The forum offered invaluable insights into the status on maternal and child health, safe birth practices, vaccination, infertility, AMR, and diagnosis, from Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, followed by uplifting presentations from UNFPA, the International Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Solutions, Gynius, the Maternity Foundation, and Ferring Pharmaceuticals, on current & future solutions for the African continent.

The key takeaway? Partnerships are essential to advancing these critical health issues. Together, we can drive impactful change!

21/09/2024

On 16 September 2024, we were thrilled to connect African Touch, a Copenhagen-based shop selling African-made accessories and décor, with the Connecting Women in Business (Co-WIB) network in Mutare, Zimbabwe🙏🏽.
Amazing pieces were purchased and will soon be available in store here in Copenhagen🎉!

Co-WIB is a platform linking women entrepreneurs in Zimbabwe, South Africa, and the Nordics, with a focus on design and agribusiness. It promotes learning, knowledge exchange, and sustainable collaborations🌱. It was launched in March 2023 and has since hosted a series of workshops, webinars, and events in South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The program is supported by Afrika Consultancy, ZimNordic Capital Connect, and the NGO All4Children, under which it officially operates.

The Co-WIB network is growing, and we’re calling on more Nordic businesses, investors, and female entrepreneurs to partner with or support women in business from our focus markets—South Africa and Zimbabwe. At Co-WIB, we believe: “Alone you can go fast, but together you can go far. So please Join us to create even more impact🚀. Feel free to DM us to explore how you can join or assist.

For now, enjoy this local Mutarean (Zimbabwe) media article on our event with African Touch on September 16, 2024 below ⬇️

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26/04/2024

Incredible insights at the Partnership Day in Aalborg on Wednesday 24 April. We were thrilled to attend, talk a bit about our upcoming plans for in and witness the commitment of companies towards sustainable practices in Eastern & Southern Africa; from local employment creation to fostering partnerships, it's inspiring to see businesses prioritize social impact!

Thanks to Access2innovation for hosting such an enlightening event. Let's continue to collaborate for a better future!