The IRT Factor: Why Ingenuity, Resilience, and Tenacity Define Founders in Emerging Markets
Across Africa, Latin America, and South Asia, founders aren’t building inside predictable systems they’re building in spite of them. And the entrepreneurs who thrive are powered by what I call The IRT Factor: Ingenuity. Resilience. Tenacity.
AI Is Transforming Industries but Is Africa Ready?
In Lagos, Accra, and Nairobi, homegrown machine learning labs are tackling real-world problems verifying identity without credit histories, predicting crop yields with satellite data, or creating AI-powered translation tools for indigenous languages.
Why Google Is Investing $37M into Africa
Bloomberg’s Africa Risk Map: What the Data Really Tells Us About the Continent’s Growth Story
When Bloomberg Economics released its latest Africa Risk Scorecard, it offered a rare, data-driven snapshot of how 19 African nations are performing across the fundamentals that matter most to investors. The analysis doesn’t just reveal who’s leading or lagging; it helps unpack where opportunity lives and what’s holding it back.

