Most market infrastructure built for vendors and low-income entrepreneurs in African countries end up abandoned due to lack of consultation β making the infrastructure less…
Street markets and informal settlements that are part of many African cities do not mean that Africans just enjoy disobeying authority and disregarding rules. In…
Using sweet potatoes and stories to demystify nutrition, science Had African policy makers, development agencies and nutritionists succeeded in embedding nutrition messages with the social…
Fragmented production makes it difficult to sustain continuous innovation. When pumpkins are out of season, enterprises that make pumpkin juice and pumpkin-flavoured ice cream have…
Successful transition from primary production to industrialization requires serious attention to detail. Otherwise, it will be difficult for African countries to shift from subsistence farming,…
For decades, companies that sell seed, fertilizer, chemicals and other inputs have been more interested in increasing their sales volumes irrespective of whether those inputs…
African universities and financial institutions havenβt done much to correct the negative perception and discourse about African mass markets and informality. An economic landscape in…
Shopping malls are mushrooming across Africa but African policy makers are not ensuring that local products dominate those shopping malls. What is the point of…
In most African countries, the formal education system has not succeeded in creating conditions for knowledge to flow between different classes of economic actors and…
Due to the colonial legacy that has looked down upon indigenous food for decades, diet and nutrition analyses in most African countries is based on…