Africa Management Expert, Speaker, Author
Rwanda is different. Driving from the airport to the center of the capital Kigali, you feel a bit like in the Tuscany in Italy. Green alleys and red-roofed houses in „the land of a thousand hills“. As an European you might forget that you are only some 200 km away from the equator, in the middle of the African continent.
A new blogpost in German
End of January we were 18 Mzungus visiting Nairobi. It was the third so called “Learning Journey to Silicon Savannah” making us explore “Digital Africa”, “Urban Africa” and possibilities for “Co-Creation”. We went for an experiment and checked in at the Madaraka railway, Kenya’s first big infrastructure investment built by China.
I am looking forward to my keynote in Dornbirn next week (in English):
Only when we realize the realities in Africa, Europe will be able to deal with migration and the interconnected global society.
My Interview in the Austrian newspaper KURIER from December 1st, 2018
Will the African continent become one of the most important destinations for long-term investments of the Germany’s ‘Hidden Champions’?
Gado, Safaricom, M-Pesa, Kibera and other events and meetings have been part of our Learning Journey to Silicon Savannah, Nairobi.
We will be looking for the ‘missing link’ in understanding ‘Africa’ – the innovators. We will meet innovators, entrepreneurs, managers, professors, thinkers, writers…
Junker’s State of the Union speech: Africa is taken more seriously. Europe has learned what it means to be part of the interconnected global society. And has again real interests in Africa.