Franchises in Africa are not only food businesses. They reveal how land access, rights, ecommerce, white labelling, dropshipping, branding, and digital systems can help African entrepreneurs build scalable wealth.
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Informality, Spatial Design, and the Politics of “Clean Cities”: Rethinking Economic Participation in South Africa
This piece is a reflection on some of the ongoing tensions shaping South Africa’s cities and the way they are beginning to disrupt local economies. In recent years, protests have resurfaced across multiple cities with a kind of predictability. As election cycles...
Sandra Nelson’s “Oluwa Jesu” Song is a Vaccine for all the Hopelessness of 2020
Sandra Nelson’s song comes at a time when a lot of people are disenchanted from their hopes and faith in God. The troubling 2020 hit hard, and harder at every turn. Many people’s hopes were dashed, others lost loved ones to the cold of death, businesses crashed, and...
Africa No Filter Launches $7000 Writing Fellowship
As part of a broader research agenda to make its work on shifting African narratives evidence-based, Africa No Filter is launching an Emerging Scholars Fellowship program for African academics. This will help us better understand prevailing stories and...
The biggest lesson of COVID19 is that small people don’t exist
One of the things I see many middle-aged African men struggling to appreciate is the collaborative process involved in wealth accumulation or plain old survival.
Aunty Sade: What’s a Woman Without Marriage?
The Nigeria I grew up in is one where a woman is sent off to live with whoever they can when they have failed to enter some marriage. It's abominable not to have a man under whose roof she learns to be a woman. If she rents her own apartment, she must be a whore or a...
Grant Masterclass by Olugbenga Ogunbowale
I recently made a post about Grant applications and quite a number of people responded. Grants are usually a big deal for small businesses and even the big ones. How do you make sure you stop getting rejected after every application? Would you like to access grant...
Answering Questions about Payoneer, Fiverr & Freelance Writing
I started pushing my students to Medium because it can be monetized. Also, it potentially increases your brand’s SEO.
WRITERS GET IN HERE! CFW JUNE 2020, COLLINS ELESIRO LITERARY PRIZE
One of the biggest opportunities to lead for me has been in the literary community. After launching cfwriterz.com, the team has grown in leaps and bounds. We have fought through tough times and realized how important our role is as a platform for emerging African...
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