An Inspired Experiment Journey on Championing Smallholder Productivity for Agricultural Development & Structural Transformation in Africa
Philemon ronoh, Founder, tanuru (YALE’14)
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Development…What is it and who is responsible?
So, what was Tanuru Group’s smallholder farming brand, Tanuru Farms, all about? Trying to tell a startup story 10 years after its founding must be one of the crazy things I am doing with my life right now but probably you could just guess this story is about some farming? That is very right but…
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Africa rising, Afro-optimism, or Africa’s.. just structurally difficult for a certain type of startups?
A few tech-enabled startups with feature sets comparable to those found anywhere in the developed countries are in full execution mode in some African countries such as Kenya and Nigeria trying to replicate what their Silicon Valley counterparts have achieved in their mature markets. Indeed, Kenya is often referred to as Silicon Savannah because of…
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Purpose or meaning through your work? My story
A decade plus some ago, as a first year college student in the United States, a senior student who was not very familiar with my country, Kenya, asked me what I thought of her idea that would offer power access points to help poor rural Kenyans charge their phones. At first, I thought of our…