Lagos to Nairobi by Pitch Deck

Founders building real companies across African cities

Kwame Asante-Boateng2 episodes2 min of audio249 playsEpisodic

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S1 · E2Aug 18, 20260:48157 plays Preview

Soil tests and the cocoa price

In Kumasi, an agritech founder explains how he sells soil testing to cocoa farmers who have never paid for data, and what a 30 percent swing in the cocoa price does to his plan.

S1 · E1Mar 20, 20260:4692 plays Members

Forty tickets to two hundred thousand

A Kigali founder tells Kwame how she grew a bus ticketing company from a borrowed motorbike to a national network, through three bank rejections and a co-founder walking out.

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Every fortnight Kwame Asante-Boateng sits down with a founder who is building a company somewhere between Dakar and Dar es Salaam, and asks the questions investors tend to skip. How did you get your first paying customer. What did the bank say when you asked for a loan. Who is doing your accounts. The show is for anyone starting or running a business on the continent, for the diaspora thinking of coming home to build, and for people elsewhere who are curious about what a Nairobi logistics startup or a Kumasi agritech company actually looks like from the inside. Each episode is a single long interview, around 40 minutes, recorded in person wherever Kwame happens to be that month. Expect frank numbers, a few hard lessons about currency swings and power cuts, and plenty of laughter from people who have found a way through.

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