Africa’s Potential

Recent posts from our blog…

• What’s driving Africa’s growth? – McKinsey & Company. June 8, 2010
  ‘ The Rate of Return on foreign investment is higher in Africa than in any other developing region. Global executives and investors has to pay heed. Africa’s economic pulse has quickened, infusing the continent with new commercial vibrancy. Real GDP rose by 4.9 percent a year from 2000 through 2008, more then twice its pace in [...] […]
• East-Africa Report on Private Equity. June 2, 2010
  News from the East African private equity market. “During the international financial crisis in 2007 & 2008 the African continent rode out the financial storm better then the large majority of the world. The immense opportunities in the African continent has really been an eye-opener for allot of international Private Equity firms, but finding and [...] […]
• SIDA Conference on CleanTech, Creative & Innovative ideas. May 21, 2010
    World reknown innovator & super entrepreneur, Günther Pauli, held a passionate seminar at the SIDA conference. During this week Africa’s Potential and more then 130 trade commissioners, ambassadors, innovators and entrepreneurs were invited to take part of SIDA (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) conference in Härnösand, the nor […]
• Africa’s Potential’s upcoming Lectures & Seminars. April 23, 2010
  Want to know more what Africa’s Potential’s vision & goals are and the current projects? Curious to find out what’s going on in the Rwanda incubator project and the making of the Swedish-East African Chambers of Commerce? Below is a list of a few lectures and seminars Africa’s Potential will be attending and holding during [...] […]
• Rwanda Report: The Western world should learn from Rwanda. April 22, 2010
  During my visit in Kigali I met the charismatic entrepreneur Fabrice Ngoga Shema, who’s today successfully running his paper bag production company, called SOGEM. (I’ve mentioned Fabrice in earlier blogs here at Africa’s Potential) In this Youtube-clip he tells his story of how the banning of the plastic bags in Rwanda became a great business [...] […]
• The 16th Commemoration of the Rwandan Genocide April 8, 2010
  Yesterday, the 7th of April, was the 16th commemoration of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. The Swedish Social Democratic Parliamentary Group held an event at the second chamber in the Swedish Parliament yesterday were Mr Kent Härstedt MP spokesperson at the Swedish International Development Cooperation (SIDA) welcomed a large number of ambassadors, members of p […]
• New Partner: Global Business Lab from Stockholm School of Economics. March 31, 2010
          Africa’s Potential has now succeeded in the mission to send two Swedish entrepreneurship-students, Sebastian Kirchsteiger and Carl von Post, from the Linneaus University to the Rwandan capital of Kigali, in order to create a business-plan/study for the potential building of a businessincubator in Kigali, together with Africa’s Potential’s part […]
• The Africa’s Potential lectures. March 16, 2010
    During February 2010 the Founder & CEO of  Africa’s Potential, Emre Gürler, held a lecture for the business students (Civilekonomprogrammet) at the Linnaeus University’s School of Management and Economics.   The lecture was a mix between how to get inspired to climb out of your comfort zone and to actually dare to take a look outside the [...] […]