Fun could be dangerous


This should be the pre-requisite of getting married in Nigeria. The buffalo race is a unique sport to the Dakshina Kannada tribe in India. Why would anyone want to hold a charging buffalo? Whew!!! Probably if men did this before getting married, they’d stop charging their wives as we’ve been seeing in recent times.

I am the author of Scaling for Success: Empowering African SMEs. I am a Partner at Sahel Capital, a food and agriculture-focused private investment firm in Sub-Saharan Africa. Sahel Capital manages the Fund for Agriculture Financing in Nigeria (FAFIN) and the Social Enterprise Fund for Agriculture in Africa (SEFAA).

I co-lead SEFAA, an impact-first fund investing in agribusinesses that provide direct or indirect benefits to smallholder farmers across 13 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. I also lead investments and portfolio management for SEFAA and manage FAFIN portfolios, two of which were recently exited. I am a director on the board of one of the portfolio companies and serve in advisory roles for several startups and SMEs.

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