Remake Africa Consulting

01/10/2024

Today, as Nigeria celebrates its 64th Independence Anniversary, I am revisiting this spoken word piece created nearly ten years ago, yet it remains timeless. I hope it inspires you as deeply as it continues to inspire me.

https://youtu.be/cOA-GOOpaPg?si=LZxve1FqdbYTVDcS

Happy Independence Day Nigeria and Nigerians. May we never lose our wonder.

With deep insights into Nigeria's essence, history and geography, this moving poetic speech continues to inspire Nigerians everywhere in the world. "If only...

27/12/2022

“Every single social and global issue of our day is a business
opportunity in disguise”

-Peter Drucker
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25/12/2022

We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year in advance! Have a superb one!!!
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20/12/2022

In today’s world, paradoxically, it is the boldest action that is often the safest. Remaining where you are in a world that is changing so rapidly is, in fact, the most dangerous of all places to be in.

— Hakeem Belo-Osagie.

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As the year rounds off, don't be scared to take a leap of faith. The most innovative things happened because someone was bold enough to take a step. be that someone today!
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13/12/2022

"Everything is possible. Impossible just takes a little longer.”

— Wendy Ackerman, SouthAfrica.

06/12/2022

I am guided each day by these three questions: ‘What are you fixing?’, ‘What are you making?’ and ‘Who are you helping?

— Juliana Rotich, Ushahidi, Kenya,

01/12/2022

Welcome to December where we introduce you to the Multi-Impact Corporation!!!

29/11/2022

“To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big. In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme”.

— Aliko Dangote,

24/11/2022

United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, Read Our Mail!
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In April 2022, compelled by the state of Africa and the latent opportunities for transformative businesses seeking to convert the continent's problems into opportunities through social impact, we commenced work on a framework for corporate impact on the continent based on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As we designed this framework, we sought for a name best suited for it. At first, we called it the State of Africa’s Sustainability (SOAS) Matrix.
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However, we were mindful that this could create brand conflict with the distinguished School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS University of London). So, mindful of the brand integrity imperative, the brainstorming continued.
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As we worked on this social impact framework, it became obvious to us that it would be applicable across regions, not just Africa, we then renamed it the State of Regional Sustainability (SORS) Matrix.
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However, we further realized that this corporate social impact framework is applicable at the national, subnational, and even community levels as far as the requisite data is available. We then eliminated the geographical adjectival restrictions and renamed it the State of Sustainability (SOS) Matrix.
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Mindful of the urgency of action that the matrix demanded in some of its quadrants, we were convinced that we had arrived at a suitable name as "SOS" represents a distress call.
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Fast forward to September 20, 2022, while addressing the 77th General Assembly of the United Nations, here comes UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, sending a distress call to world leaders when he states that: “The Sustainable Development Goals are issuing an SOS.”
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Having encountered the 2022 scorecard on the SDGs while working on the SOS Matrix, the degree of urgency that the UN chief had awakened the world to did not come as a surprise. Instead, it convinced us all the more of the timeliness of the SOS Matrix and the suitability of the name. It was as though the UN chief had "read our mail", as we would say in certain informal conversational contexts.
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The SOS Matrix is an ongoing project but its preliminary version has been unveiled in this edition of REMAKE AFRICA Intelligence titled, Corporate Impact Intelligence: Mapping Africa’s Corporate Impact Opportunities Using the SOS Matrix.

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22/11/2022

“Businesses that are spoilt with too much capital make the wrong decisions. Constraints are the most wonderful things in business, because constraints allow you to be innovative and come up with different solutions.”

- Michael Jordan.

17/11/2022

Between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Social Innovation (CSI): Which of These Corporate Impact Models Does Africa Need?
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Against the backdrop of the megatrend towards sustainability and the increasing call on businesses to remodel for impact, the question lingers as to the most suitable model for corporate impact between the investment model and the intervention model or between the social responsibility model and the social innovation model. This debate remains particularly relevant for Africa in light of the continent's enormous challenges - challenges that are being responded to across the spectrum by brands doing business in Africa.
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There are examples to consider that were culled from the eBook, "Corporate Impact Intelligence: Mapping Africa's Corporate Impact Opportunities Using the SOS Matrix". These examples were based on five differences between the philanthropic intent of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the strategic intent of Corporate Social Innovation (CSI) highlighted by the Institute for Social Innovation and Babson College Social Innovation Lab.
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If you're yet to download the eBook, you should do so today. Link in bio...
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15/11/2022

“The old business model of a myopic pursuit of profit above all else is at best imprudent and, at worst, reckless in our increasingly interconnected and interdependent world.”

- Tony Elumelu