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Nigeria Positions Itself to Groom Africa’s Next Health Tech Unicorns

Nigeria is positioning itself as a launchpad for Africa’s next generation of health technology unicorns, leveraging its demographic weight and expanding digital economy to attract investment into the sector, according to Premium Times reporting circulated by AllAfrica. The country enters this transition with what analysts describe as considerable structural advantages. Nigeria has Africa’s largest population […]

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How a 22-year-old Ghanaian-American turned a thesis into a $100m African investment platform

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A 22-year-old Ghanaian-American entrepreneur has transformed a Princeton University senior thesis on small and medium enterprise financing into a platform that aims to channel more than $100 million toward high-growth African businesses. Nana Barwuah’s Afrovest, as The Africa Report reported, connects founders across the continent with global investors, bringing together more than $100m in aggregate

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