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Continent DNA decodes the future of business and innovation across Africa. Hosted by Tobe Duru, the show explores untapped markets, bold opportunities, and the playbooks of entrepreneurs, investors, and leaders who are shaping the continent’s next big leap.
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Dangote: Building Africa's Industrial Empire (opens the original)
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Before he spent twenty billion dollars on a refinery, Aliko Dangote spent forty years learning a single lesson. An importer owns nothing that lasts. Everyone else in the market was content to import. He was the one who walked toward the fire they had all built their businesses to avoid. This episode is the origin investigation. Not a biography, but a study of how a family trading dynasty, a currency trap, and one contrarian decision produced the man who would take on a nation's entire industrial
The 5 Million Naira Bill: What It Really Costs to Escape Nigeria's Power Grid With Michael Osumune (opens the original)
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The 5 Million Naira Bill: What It Actually Costs to Escape the Nigerian Grid What happens when buying reliable electricity becomes one of the biggest capital investments a business can make? In this episode, Tobe Duru sits down with Michael Osumune, Founder of Moon Innovations, to explore why power has become one of Africa's defining infrastructure challenges. They unpack the hidden economics of leaving the national grid, why building hardware in Nigeria is far harder than building software, how
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