Around 69 and 79 AD, Emperor Vespasian was building the capitol in Rome. The workers had to move large and heavy columns from the mines to the construction site; a very difficult task that involved the labour of thousands of people at great expense to the emperor. Alas, a man invented a device for transporting […]
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After investing 90% of my savings in cryptocurrency – 7 lessons learned
Bitcoin went from $3,000 at the beginning of 2017 to almost $20,000 by the end of the year. By the end of 2018, it traded at $3,000. I lost $45,000 in crypto during that market cycle. You’d expect that I’d never want anything to do with crypto after wards. Well, at first I took a […]
To Make Millions in Africa, Start Solving these Top 5 Problems
The simple formula to get rich anywhere is to identify a problem and provide a scalable solution. And Africa has an abundance of problems waiting to make people rich. The continent may have many problems – unemployment, poverty, hunger, and corruption. Yet, it is endowed with enormous opportunities and unexplored possibilities. If you want to […]
How to Be Smarter with Your Money to Beat Inflation
In 2019, all it took was one government policy to wipe out half of Dr. Strive Masiyiwa’s net worth, Zimbabwe’s only billionaire. The Zimbabwean government banned the US dollar – which was the legal tender in the country – and introduced the Zimbabwe dollar. This resulted in hyper-inflation estimated at 737%. By the end of […]
3 Secrets of Investing 95% of Investors Don’t Know About
Cryptocurrency took a bullish trend from the ending of 2020 through to the first quarter of 2021. Everyone wanted to invest in Bitcoin and another crypto. On Twitter, TikTok, everyone was promoting one meme coin or the other. Investing in crypto seemed like the next cool thing. As some people are making 10 to 100 […]
5 Convincing Reasons to invest in Agriculture in Africa
After spending 4 or 5 years in higher education, most graduates never imagine building a career or business in agriculture. They believe the greatest honour of going to school was to get a white-collar job, threaten sick patients or defend clients in the courtroom. Or if they had thought about business, they probably imagine building […]
7 Legit Ways to Make Money in Dollars in Africa
If you live in Africa, have a laptop or mobile phone, with access to the internet, you can earn a living in US dollars. If you are in the online business space for a long time like I have, it’s easy to assume that everyone already gets it. You assume that everyone understands how making […]
7 Lucrative Businesses you can start in Africa with under $1,000
Fresh out of school, I started a home-movie marketing business with zero capital. Later, I started a jewellery business with less than $150. Afterwards, I started a media business with less than $100. When I sold the UK used laptops, I started with less than $1,000. $1,000 in a developed country like US, Canada or […]
Why 99% of People Who Desire to Be Wealthy Fail
If you ask 10 people about their financial goals, 9 of them will tell you they want to be financially successful. Yet only a tiny percentage of people actually succeed at elevating their financial capability. The rest fail at it or at worst, they don’t even try. Certainly, the problem is not a lack of […]
Why People Like to Owe You Money and How to fix it
A restaurant I used to visit has an inscription on the wall, “no credit today. Come tomorrow” When I began offering web design services many years ago, the first set of clients I had were friends and relatives. They paid part of the fee with the promise to pay the balance once the job is […]