Africa Key Partners

22/09/2020

Africa Key Partners [AKP], Accelerating Impact Investing in Africa.

Investing in Africa.

16/09/2020 Reeta Roy, CEO of Mastercard Foundation, defied critics and steered its $33 billion to help Africans solve the continent’s challenges In 2007, a search firm contacted Reeta Roy, F89, with a surprising opportunity: Would she be interested in the top post at the year-old Mastercard Founda...

07/09/2020

Africa Key Partners [AKP], Accelerating Impact Investing in Africa.

Interview: Felix Bikpo, Group CEO, African Guarantee Fund.

07/06/2019 Despite the great enthusiasm and energy of their proprietors, small and medium-sized enterprises constantly find it difficult if not impossible to obtain finance to develop or expand their businesses. The African Guarantee Fund (AGF) works with financial institutions across the continent....

25/08/2020

Africa Key Partners [AKP], Accelerating Impact Investing in Africa.

“If you empower a woman, you empower a nation.”

Meet The All-Female Angel Group Making Profitable Bets On African Entrepreneurs.

20/02/2020 Yemi Keri is the co-founder of Rising Tide Africa, an all-female angel group in Nigeria.  AYOTOLA “If you empower a woman, you empower a nation.” That is the driving motivation behind Rising Tide Africa, a female angel investing network co-founded by Yemi Keri and Ndidi Nnoli-Edozie...

17/08/2020

Africa Key Partners [AKP], Accelerating Impact Investing in Africa.

Women Empowerment During The Covid-19 Pandemic.

21/07/2020 Geraldine Matchaba, Head of Corporate Affairs and Brand & Marketing at Standard Chartered. Looking at Covid-19 through a gender lens Our world has undoubtedly been changed forever by the Covid-19 pandemic, as all efforts are focused on slowing down the increase and mitigating the impact o...

03/08/2020

Africa Key Partners [AKP], Accelerating Impact Investing in Africa.

Why Ghana Is Africa’s Top Candidate for an Economic Leap.

The country scores high on development metrics; it just needs to break free of dependence on commodities. 10/02/2020 Every time a region of the world goes from being poor to being rich one country tends to be responsible for getting the process started. In Europe that was the U.K., which was the fir...

27/07/2020

Africa Key Partners [AKP], Accelerating Impact Investing in Africa.

Big data : l’Afrique a encore une carte à jouer.

19/07/2020 Avec une formation professionnelle ciblée, le continent peut tirer profit du fort potentiel économique et industriel des données massives. Depuis vingt ans, nous assistons à une profusion de données générées par les réseaux informatiques, les réseaux sociaux et tous les objets ...

14/07/2020

Africa Key Partners [AKP], Accelerating Impact Investing in Africa.

Africa Amazing Africa.

The fantastic Atinuke tells us about writing Amazing Africa and reconnecting with the continent of her birth. 28/10/2019 I had such fun writing Amazing Africa. All my life I have been fascinated by continent of my birth. I am intrigued by it’s waterfalls and snowy mountains, by it’s crazy chaoti...

03/07/2020

Africa Key Partners [AKP], Accelerating Impact Investing in Africa.

“If you want to change our society, you help a woman to change her life. Then the woman will change the world.”

To support Africa’s women entrepreneurs, investors must understand them.

African women entrepreneurs can overcome the funding gap with targeted support from a new type of gender-focused investors. 29/06/2020 “If you want to change our society, you help a woman to change her life. Then the woman will change the world.” These are the words of Vera Mbongo, who runs a no...

18/05/2020

Africa Key Partners [AKP], Impact Investing in Africa.
HAS COVID-19 KILLED GLOBALISATION?
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The flow of people, trade and capital will be slowed May 14th 2020 By the Economist Even before the pandemic, globalisation was in trouble. The open system of trade that had dominated the world economy for decades had been damaged by the financial crash and the Sino-American trade war. Now it is ree...

24/04/2020

Africa Key Partners [AKP], Impact Investing in Africa.

CORONAVIRUS POSES ETHICAL CONCERNS: A VIEW ON THE CHOICES BEING MADE IN KENYA
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April 22, 2020 By David Nderitu Many countries in the world are taking measures to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic, including maintaining social distance and observing personal hygiene. Many people are now working remotely to avoid interaction with colleagues. Educational and religious i...

23/04/2020

Africa Key Partners [AKP], Impact Investing in Africa.

CORONAVIRUS IN AFRICA TRACKER: HOW MANY COVID-19 CASES & WHERE? [LATEST]
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