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great thinking, great product

tl;dr this could really be a post about my nice new backpack . Growing up in Lagos in the 90’s, I remember a television ad for Toyota that ended with a Japanese voice saying “yoi shinai, yoi kangai – good thinking, good product”. That slogan stuck. Toyota cars are generally good products. Good products get the job... More

Buying Land in the 2020’s

African millennials understand the concept of real estate as a source of wealth, but with the explosion of the digital landscape, how many have made the connection that digital real estate could work in the same way? Let’s start from real estate as we know it – buying undervalued land or property and selling it... More

The Spark: Theory, Practice, and why I’m betting on Africa.

I took piano lessons as a teenager from when i was around 12-14. Mr. Johnson was a good teacher, we used Smallwood’s piano tutorial and by the time i gave it up i was able to play pieces in C, G and F. And now? I can only play basic nursery rhymes from memory, but... More