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Facts:

  • There are 400 companies in Africa earning annually USD 1 billion or more.
  • Africa has already more than one million inhabitants as North America and more than 80% of its population growth for the next two decades will occur in cities.
  • There are 122 million active users of mobile financial services and the number of smartphones is projected to increase from 315 million (2015) to 636 million in 2022, twice as many as in North America and very close to the total in Europe.

Source: Chironga Mutsa, Acha Leke, Georges Desvausx, Africa’s Business Revolution: How to succeed in the world’s next big growth market, 2018, Boston: Harvard Business Review Press.

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