2026

In the book ‘Big Bets’, Dr. Rajiv Shah talks about the Ebola crisis, COVID-19 vaccines, food security, international development, and all this at a scale that most of us do not really get the insight to see.

AfricaXchange is framed around money, markets, and mindsets. That framing reflects a broader shift. There is a growing recognition that fragmented interventions are insufficient.

John D. Rockefeller

John Rockefeller is often introduced as the first modern billionaire. That framing is incomplete. His significance lies in the fact that he built two systems, sequentially, each with lasting global implications.

“What does your country produce?” A question at dinner in New York that I grew to dread. It should be an easy question to answer; and yet… it was not.