Relocating top African software developers to European tech teams, with Caspar Coding
An interesting heuristic you can think about when considering companies operating in East Africa...
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Big retail CEO Daniel Githua explains the role of supermarkets formalising the East African economy
Some of the biggest and most visible players in any country are the supermarkets. They employ...
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Booming factory business. Tales of growth, expansion and toilet paper, from Darshan Chandaria
Manufacturing is one of the major value drivers in an economy. In this episode, I speak with...
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An innovative construction material transforms Kenya's booming housing market, with Mburu Karanja
Housing in Africa is a huge problem. Every year millions more people arrive in cities and are...
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How Busara Center's unintuitive behavioural insights bring clarity to the complex, with Chaning Jang
A lot of the interviews on The East Africa Business Podcast have been related to individual...
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A "one for one" model delivering nutritious hot lunches for schoolchildren, with Wawira Njiru
Most people have somewhat underwhelming memories of school lunches. Bland, uninteresting food...
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The social (and commercial) upsides of building an online parenting platform, with MumsVillage
One of the upsides of the internet is the ability to collect and store information that was...
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How the "Distributed Economy" thesis could revolutionise how we think about Africa's development
This is a slightly different episode of The East Africa Business Podcast where we’ll be covering...
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How many eggs can you fit in an Uber? A Nairobi egg dealer on overcoming micro-business challenges
One of the nice things about having a podcast is that it allows you to have conversations with...
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A sexy tech success story. How Africa's Talking equips African software developers with APIs
In this episode I speak with Bilha Ndirangu who is the CEO of one of Africa's most successful...
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Moringa revisited: catching up with Audrey Cheng on the coding school's international expansion
In this episode, I catch up with Audrey Cheng, the founder of Moringa School. We first did an...
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How Brexit is affecting Kenya's role in the global flower market, with Chris Kulei from Sian Roses
This week we're speaking with a big player in one of Kenya's largest industries: flower farming....
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A tech success story. How Africa's Talking equips African software developers with APIs
In this episode I speak with Bilha Ndirangu who is the CEO of one of Africa's most successful...
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How Lynk raised $1.3m and evolved from "TaskRabbit for Kenya" to micro-franchising and construction
In this episode, I catch up with Johannes, co-founder of Lynk. We initially spoke back in late...
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From Uber to call centre: why Flare decided on the human touch for emergency dispatch in Kenya
In this catch-up episode, I chat with Caitlin who runs Flare. Caitlin and I first spoke in...
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(Chia) Seed Investors: the surprising story of how chia seeds came to be grown in Africa
In this episode, I speak with Sabina Karumba about how she and her husband started Chia Africa....
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Cracking the nut industry: how Kenya adopted the world's most valuable nut, with Charles Muigai
Do you know what the world's most expensive nut is? It's the macadamia nut. Similar in shape...
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Affordable healthcare for the masses: Ilara Health's sustainable business model saves lives
This week we're featuring what has to be one of my favourite business models to date. One of the...
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The opportunities and challenges of making affordable socks in Kenya
This week we're talking with two friends who have set up a business making socks in Kenya. Both...
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From rags to riches: Re-afric make colourful shoes from recycled African fabric that sell worldwide
This week's episode comes from Kibera, Kenya's biggest, and one of Africa's largest, informal...
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