So we’re involved throughout the value chain, all year round, providing the tools and instruments and know-how to make a deal bankable and helping it… - Chinelo Anohu-Amazu

We are constantly putting things on the table that weren’t there before and constantly refusing to take no for an answer when it comes to Africa.

We are helping to channel monies to women-led and businesses with a gender lens. We have a dozen deals on our platform starting from $2m – a sheer butter business – to a multi-billion refinery business. Their stories are amazing when you look at the obstacles they’ve had to overcome, the challenges and sheer tenacity and not just the will but also the mental acumen to pursue the deals to where they are now.

One should understand that when the presidents come to the AIF they don’t come to AIF as the president of such and such a country, they come to AIF as CEOs of their countries.