Creating African giants: The transformative power of capital and financial investment
One of the most significant challenges facing African businesses, especially family-owned enterprises, is access to capital and financial investment.
African family businesses
Crucial role of governance in African family businesses: Lessons from the German Mittelstand
Mutendi explores the importance of governance in African family businesses.
Ensuring the longevity of African family businesses: The critical role of governance and estate planning
Mutendi outlines the critical role of governance and estate planning in family enterprises.
Reviving ancient traditions: How African family businesses are harnessing cultural roots and trade routes to thrive under ACFTA
Mutendi offers some key factors to consider when developing a model framework for African family businesses in line with the ACFTA.
Breaking down borders: How single currency policies can empower African family businesses
Mutendi posits that a single currency policy focused primarily on trade will provide a range of benefits for family businesses doing business in Africa.
Lessons from Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s story
On Dec. 8, 2022, the world woke up to the Netflix documentary, “Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.”
Exit strategies for family businesses
Exit strategies include acquisition, merger, IPO, cash cow, selling to a friend, or shutting down operations.
The ‘family’ in family business
Simply put, one of the keys to the success of a big business and the most integral part of the business is the family.
Types of family businesses: Steward?
Succession in the Steward family business type comes with little conflict.
Types of family businesses: Eternus?
The Eternus family business, like the James Bond type, is led by an authoritarian family leader.
Types of family businesses: James Bond?
In the James Bond family business type, the sole family member in the business is the founder.
Family is the elephant in the room
The biggest challenges for family businesses in Africa have to do with the family system and not with the business system.
Opportunists or strategists? What will bring more African family businesses to the forefront?
The continent’s future is influenced by those who hold the wealth and resources — and their motives.
Digital risk for African family businesses
Cybercrime poses a serious threat to families of wealth.
Family business resilience leads to generational wealth
One of the strengths of family businesses is their ability to create roots similar to trees that embed them in the space they are in.
Why African family businesses are failing at multigenerational wealth
The African continent is an entrepreneurial one, whose economic growth is in fact driven by family-owned businesses.