The hanging gardens of Babylon – a master piece which is acclaimed as probably the only legendary wonder. Created in 600 BC by king Nebuchadnezzar II and was destroyed by earthquakes after 1st Century BC. With so many hanging floral around a kingdom, I openly wonder if they had snakes as their next door neighbors. A wonder indeed!
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.