The Yield Uganda Investment Fund is proud to announce its fifth investment in Uganda by making a commitment to invest UGX 3.9Bn to Raintree Farms Limited, a pioneering agri-ceutical enterprise specialising in the production and processing of organic moringa.…
I’ve been at Raintree for a few weeks now. The start of the new harvest season in April is always chaotic. I’ve taken to waking up earlier than anyone else lately. Not because I have something…
I joined CNBC Africa host Makeda on her Power Lunch program to discuss the on-going drought and how it’s affecting the region. The delayed rains put quit the damper on the start of our production year.…
Alongside Andela, Serena Ventures has also backed Coinbase, the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange, Masterclass, the online learning platform and Wave, a remittance service that’s available in five African countries. I’ve been a user of Wave’s brilliantly…
It’s been a week since Rocket Internet’s Jumia debuted on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The stock (so far) has been met with the type bullish exuberance only Wall Street can muster, sending the stock…
My second appearance on the Tiny Spark podcast is probably my favorite, only because I only found out after the episode was published that the entire episode was full of some of my favorite people. I…
I spent a couple of days thinking about the Louise Linton debacle and I published the below piece on Medium for The Development Set. It usually starts with a trickle. Then a steady stream. Then a torrent…
This is a very powerful, cogent —albeit painful—read in light of the events of the last five days. Professor Michael Eric Dyson in the New York Times: You cannot know what terror we live in. You make…
The US Embassy Mission in Kampala this afternoon facilitated, in partnership with ICTAU, an open dialog on Net Freedom in Uganda. In attendance were the usual suspects one can find at such brain gatherings in the…
If you’ve been paying attention, then you already know I am the Educated Angry African co-founder of JadedAid, a card game to save humanitarians. This past week, we launched a SWAG section on our online store.…
