Iyinoluwa Aboyeji

Advisor

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji is a faith-driven investor and entrepreneur. He is passionate about partnering with mission-driven innovators and investors building an African future where prosperity and purpose are within everyone’s reach. He is currently the CEO and General Partner of Future Africa, an early-stage venture capital firm with a portfolio of 100 companies collectively worth over $6 billion. Before founding the Fund, he was the founding CEO of Flutterwave, a billion-dollar global payments platform connecting African businesses and individuals to the global economy. He was also the co-founder of Andela, a billion-dollar business that matches Africa’s top engineering talent to global technology companies. Andela is also backed by top global investors like Spark Capital, Google Ventures, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and SoftBank amongst others.

Malawi Failed Special Economic Zone

A Failed Special Economic Zone Experiment: Malawi 1995-2023

This policy brief critically examines the Export Processing Zones Act of 1995 in Malawi, which aimed to promote export-oriented manufacturing through Special Economic Zones (SEZs). The brief argues that the Act was fundamentally flawed, leading to the collapse of Malawi’s SEZ experiment by the mid-2000s.

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An Introduction to Fumba Town

An Introduction To Fumba Town General Introduction Fumba Town is a new city being developed on Zanzibar’s Fumba Peninsula, located 15km south of the Zanzibar International Airport and just a 20-minute drive from Stone Town, the UNESCO World Heritage site at the heart of Zanzibar

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