Carolyn Campbell is a founding partner of Emerging Capital Partners (ECP), a pan-African private equity fund which has raised more than US$3bn in growth capital through funds and co-investments. When I land in a key African airport, I am pleased to see a café or bank that we grew from often a smaller concept into a national brand. We have invested in more than 40 countries and pioneered in key markets such as Kenya and Côte d’Ivoire. The amounts we were looking for were completely unheard of for African markets. Life as an entrepreneur in the African space is full of “if only I had known this!”.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 20, 2018 13:30 UTC