


Ethiopia's telephone network began with an 1894 line from Harar to Addis Ababa, and its only constant since has been the owner. The state opened it on its own terms, one dose at a…

KenGen sells every unit of its electricity to one buyer, Kenya Power, and by its own reporting supplied 59 per cent of what Kenya Power bought in the year to June 2025, on average…

Kenya Power began as a 1922 merger of two small electricity franchises, and it is the part of Kenya's electricity system every customer touches: the wire, the meter and the bill. G…

In 1924, Rift Valley dairy farmers met because none of them could get a steady price alone. The creamery that followed, Kenya Co-operative Creameries, became in effect the only buy…

FARO is a Cape Town retailer that sells global brands' surplus and returned clothes at about sixty percent off, after cleaning and repairing them in its own warehouse. Its co-found…

African farmers in Kenya were legally barred from growing tea until 1956. Today about six hundred thousand smallholders deliver leaf to factory companies they own, and fifty four o…
