BUSINESS LEADERS

Tanzania’s Most Recognised Political Cartoonist Stopped Commenting on the Economy and Started Trying to Build One. It Has Already Cost Him More Than USD 300,000.

Masoud Kipanya, Tanzania's most recognised political cartoonist, founded Kaypee Motors to build Tanz...

May 9 18 min

WORKFORCE

Tanzania Already Has Its Industrialists. They Are Currently Traders. The Path to a USD 1 Trillion Economy Runs Through Converting One Into the Other.

The assumption embedded in most of Tanzania's industrial policy discourse is that industrialisation ...

Apr 30 19 min

WORKFORCE

East Africa Is Producing More Graduates Than Ever. It Is Also Running Out of the Skills It Actually Needs. That Contradiction Is Not an Accident.

Across East Africa, university enrolment has grown faster than at any point in the post-independence...

Apr 5 15 min

WORKFORCE

East Africa's Investment Surge Has a Skills Problem. The Capital Is Arriving. The People Who Know How to Deploy It Are Not.

Tanzania registered USD 10.95 billion in approved investment capital in 2025. The World Bank committ...

Apr 5 16 min

BUSINESS LEADERS

The Supply Chain That Starts in a Tanzanian Farm and Ends on a Shelf Abroad: How Irene Ivambi Is Building Mrembo Naturals Into Africa's Case for Local Manufacturing

Mrembo Naturals sources raw materials from over 5,000 women farmers across Tanzania, employs 20 peop...

Mar 25 11 min

WORKFORCE

Eight Million Jobs by 2030: Why Tanzania Must Reform Education, Rewrite Its Stories, and Raise Builders

Tanzania’s goal of creating eight million jobs by 2030 will fail unless the country abandons an ed...

Nov 28 5 min

WORKFORCE

Kenya Is the World's 11th Best Outsourcing Destination and Africa Has 7 Countries in the Global Top 25. Tanzania Ranks 100th Despite Near-Identical Labour Costs to Kenya. The Gap Is Almost Entirely Explained by One Variable.

The 2026 Ataraxis Global Outsourcing Talent Index covers 193 countries and places seven African nati...

Jun 8 14 min

WORKFORCE

How Saving TZS 10,000 a Day Could Quietly Change the Financial Destiny of Millions of Tanzanians.

Most Tanzanians are not poor because they never earn. They are poor because financial shocks, medica...

May 28 15 min

BUSINESS LEADERS

Femi Otedola Collapsed and Rebuilt One of Africa's Largest Fortunes. Every Tanzanian Investor Entering This Growth Cycle Should Study How He Did It.

Tanzania's accelerating infrastructure investment, rising energy demand, and expanding capital flows...

May 28 16 min

WORKFORCE

Tanzania's Young People Are Not Lacking Motivation. They Are Lacking the Industrial Capital That Converts Entrepreneurial Energy Into Production.

Tanzania does not have a motivation problem, and any serious analysis of the country's economic cons...

May 26 12 min

WORKFORCE

The Modern Economy Rewards Ownership More Than Labour. That Single Shift Explains Most of Today's Economic Frustration.

The modern economy's most consequential structural shift is the growing divergence between returns o...

May 22 15 min

BUSINESS LEADERS

Tanzania's Business Environment Is Not the Problem. The Gap Between What the Law Requires and What Businesses Actually Do Is.

The businesses that describe Tanzania's regulatory environment as difficult and the businesses that ...

Apr 24 13 min