ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
A podcast interviewing entrepreneurs and business leaders in the emerging market of East Africa. Host Sam Floy showcases companies operating across Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia. Find conversations with companies ranging from solar power and food production to smoothies and toothpicks.
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
38 minutes
English
United States
85 episodes
since Sept. 1, 2016
episodic
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~79.84% of listeners are from Ireland.
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IE
79.84%
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KE
15.31%
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US
1.16%
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UG
0.96%
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AT
0.58%
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PH
0.58%
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ET
0.38%
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BE
0.38%
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ZA
0.19%
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GB
0.19%
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TW
0.19%
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FI
0.19%
Others
0.05%
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This week's episode comes from Kibera, Kenya's biggest, and one of Africa's largest, informal settlements.
Life is tough here, and many talk about the "slum mentality" where a lack of opportunities leads to drug abuse, crime and a general sense of despair.
Julius Otieno is an inspiration for th…
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
This week we're featuring what has to be one of my favourite business models to date.
One of the dominant themes in East Africa is that individuals and businesses don't have the cash to afford products and services that would earn them more money, and make their lives better.
To open up access …
This week we're talking with two friends who have set up a business making socks in Kenya.
Both Vidyesh and Bishell grew up in Nairobi to entrepreneurial families, and after education in the UK returned home to begin a business.
They are also friends with Sumit, who featured in the board game c…
Do you know what the world's most expensive nut is?
It's the macadamia nut.
Similar in shape and colour to a chickpea, but up to twice the size, it's originally from Australia and is now grown in several tropical locations around the world.
In Kenya, the first trees were grafted and planted i…
In this episode, I speak with Sabina Karumba about how she and her husband started Chia Africa.Most businesses have an interesting formation story, though this one is one of the best I've heard in a while.Sabina and her husband were watching TV one evening in 2012 when a doctor came on the show and…
In this episode, I catch up with Johannes, co-founder of Lynk.We initially spoke back in late 2016 along with his co-founder Adam. You can listen to the interview by searching for the episode on 'How Lynk is building a "TaskRabbit for Kenya"'.The company has continued to grow over the years, and th…
In this catch-up episode, I chat with Caitlin who runs Flare.Caitlin and I first spoke in late 2016, and you can listen to the original interview by scrolling down to the episode named Ambulances.The premise then was that Flare would become a technology platform to connect people with ambulances mu…
In this second episode from Zambia, I speak with an entrepreneur who has found his niche and is fully focused on it. Paul Nyambe grew up farming goats in rural Zambia. He and his family were unable to earn money from the animals which always struck Paul as frustrating.Years later he built a career …
The landlocked country is just south of Malawi, Tanzania and DRC, and has the great Zambezi river as it's border with Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia.Economically there's a lot of copper and mining exports, and my sense is that the development of local services is most in line with Uganda or Tanzani…
In this episode, I catch up with Audrey Cheng, the founder of Moringa School.We first did an interview in October of 2016, and so it had been over 2.5 years since we last spoke.The initial episode is called "Coding Schools", and so be sure to scroll back through the archives to give it a listen, if…
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