At the Howard Family Bookstore, I ran into Antonice J. Strickland, founder of Nice’s Tea House. She carried me through her origin story in a plain way: entrepreneur to entrepreneur; when we are not performing for investors.
I was casually scrolling on Twitter [now X], and I came across a tweet, expressing shock at the fact that there are no Apple Stores on the African continent.
Africa continues to be framed as the “final frontier”: a vast, youthful market whose growth is preordained by demography and digitization. And yet – the facts are incomplete.
In recent development data and reports, Africa’s demographic future has been described as its greatest economic opportunity.