Financially Incorrect

What would make a senior banking executive walk away from career security to return to university while supporting a family? For Kevin Rudahinduka, the decision meant rethinking how he financed his future, adjusting his...

From playing keyboard at church for KES 5,000 a month to becoming Sauti Sol's musical director and building his own music ventures, Mutoriah's career has been shaped by a willingness to keep creating beyond the...

Manuela P Mulondo had the kind of public success most people would assume came with financial security. She was speaking at major events, meeting presidents and receiving international recognition, while her business...

In 2014, Brian Bogonko set out to solve a simple problem: how do you sell event tickets digitally, track who is buying and eliminate the fragmented cash and paper systems that defined Kenya’s events industry?M Tickets...

From four stores to 72, Betty Wamaitha was part of the commercial journey that helped transform QuickMart into one of Kenya’s biggest supermarket businesses. In this conversation, she breaks down what actually drives...

A busy restaurant can still be a bad business. Sonia Iraguha, founder of Bicu Lounge, built the Kigali hospitality destination during COVID after investing roughly RWF 40 million, learning the economics of hospitality...

Fred Waswa started working on KSh1,500 a month. After losing his father as a teenager, he became responsible for helping support his mother and siblings, learning early that making money was not enough; you had to know...

Richard Musinguzi once received UGX400 million from his animation business and realised that making serious money was easier than knowing what to do with it. The creator of Katoto Uganda had built a recognised creative...

What if you could build a business from assets your customers never need to own?Patricia Mwalimu started Party Lounges with roughly KSh 85,000 worth of furniture. Today, furniture rental accounts for about 90% of the...

Lookie’s automotive journey did not begin with a luxury car, a large audience or a dealership.It began with approximately $1,000 from his father and a family connection in London that helped him import small automotive...

Bashir Yannick Ntwari’s first gym attracted hundreds of members. The numbers still didn’t work. After returning to Rwanda in 2015, he invested in his first fitness business without fully understanding the market...

Bilha Ngaruiya has watched Kenyan music change from CDs and physical distribution to Spotify, Boomplay, YouTube and a global streaming economy. She has also seen the uncomfortable side of that transformation: artists...

Rachel Natukunda did not grow up with everything figured out. She grew up seeing what financial security looked like from a distance, worked for her own opportunities, earned a government scholarship, took on part time...

What happens when you remove alcohol from the party business?Zanelle Wanja’s answer was Nani’s Cafe Party, a Nairobi social experience built around music, coffee, wellness and community.But before Nani’s, Zanelle built...

Wanini Wachira built a career out of understanding people, selling to them and growing businesses. As Head of Retail at Hotpoint, she has helped drive major growth, including more than doubling branch sales over a...