There are moments when being the owner of a struggling African agricultural startup can get overwhelming and it is all I can do to quit and run for the hills. Then there are the moments when…
March 2014
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I’ll be speaking at a panel about Women and Innovative Entrepreneurship in Uganda at Georgetown tomorrow. Join us for the screening of the short film, “Barefoot in Business,” which follows the fortunes of three Ugandan business women…
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Cities in motion: how we mapped the matatus of Nairobi | Cities | theguardian.com
March 22, 2014 KenyaMapping chaos: With Peter Waiganjo and Dan Orwa of the University of Nairobi’s C4D lab at the school of computing and informatics, and Sarah Williams of MIT’s civic data design lab, plus support from the Rockefeller…
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BBC World Service – In the Balance, African Enterprise
March 22, 2014 Appearances International DevelopmentI was honored to be on Manuela Saragosa’s show, In The Balance, on BBC World Service to talk about African Enterprise and the lack of affordable capital to make them grow. What do African businessmen and…
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Infographic: Uganda is youngest country in the world
March 10, 2014 International Development UgandaI’ve long wanted to look into my countries demographic breakdown. I dug around for some numbers from Google (via World Bank data) and some from USAID. Not all numbers for each age group are available, so…
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IFC and Goldman Sachs Launch $600 Million Global Facility for Female Entrepreneurs
March 9, 2014 International DevelopmentThe Women Entrepreneurs Opportunity Facility is the first of its kind to be dedicated exclusively to financing women-owned small and medium businesses in developing countries. IFC will invest an initial $100 million and the Goldman Sachs…
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