If you are reading this, it means that I have graduated from my MBA program, and I now hold two Master’s degrees in business and entrepreneurship!
This week, I graduate with my MBA from Michigan State University. I am marking that moment in Nairobi, where I have been selected as one of ten leaders in the inaugural Africa cohort of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Big Bets Fellowship.
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.
AfricaXchange is framed around money, markets, and mindsets. That framing reflects a broader shift. There is a growing recognition that fragmented interventions are insufficient.
“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.
Most public conversations about development begin with infrastructure. The roads are poor.
Electricity is unreliable. Water systems are inconsistent. Internet access is limited.
At 10:03 a.m. on the 17th of April, 2026, Malawi experienced a national system shutdown. There was a countrywide loss of power supply.
I am delighted to have been nominated for Most Inspiring Female Business Leader at the Consumer Choice Awards Malawi 2026. , as founder and CEO of Q2 Systems.
I have been reading The African Dream while moving across contexts—Malawi, Kenya, Turkey, the United States—and the text lands differently depending on where I am.
The Malawi University of Science and Technology was not created arbitrarily. It was established through Act of Parliament No. 31 of 2012 and opened in 2014 with a clear mandate: to promote the development, adaptation, and application of science, technology, and innovation for Malawi’s economic transformation.