Entrepreneurship in Africa: Episode 01 - the African dream - brand one online

September 2021 in Central Europe, which asks "Welt": "When will autonomous aircraft fly in Germany?" It's about Lilium, a start-up from Upper Bavaria.The company just went to the stock exchange.This is good news - for everyone who wants to fly to work.Because: Lilium builds flight tax.The "Handelsblatt" calls this a "revolution".

September 2021 in Subsahara Africa: In Addis Ababa an S-Bahn, the only south of the Sahara drives.This is not a headline, just a statement.Africa has the worst network of roads in the world, the worst healthcare system, the worst power grid.Everything deficits, all defects, all defects.But also for entrepreneurs: everything exciting, all potential.Revolutions are everyday life in Africa because so much has to be revolutionized.Everything is better, faster, smarter.And who can do that will become rich.And famous.And changes the life of millions, like Lori Systems, a company from Kenya.

"Nowhere is the transport of goods as expensive as in Africa," says Uche Ogboi.Also about them will be in this series later and about your company: Lori Systems, a kind of Uber for trucks.In Europe and the USA, transport costs account for 6 percent of all prices."There are up to 70 in Africa," says Ogboi.This is located on broken streets, closed borders, missing loans, drivers and transporters, corruption, climate and climate - on chaos."We want to change that," says Ogboi.“And make Africa competitive.“Should she be successful, that would be a revolution, a real one again.

Disruption is not a trange catchphrase in Africa, but necessary.This makes founders so important here.Because they have to grow, the size of the problems.

Our plane rolls out.Stopped.Welcome to Lagos - at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, named after a president who dreamed of democracy and was shot.The sun is deep.The sky looks like a carnivorous plant.We push out of the machine.Paragraphs clack on concrete, trolleys purring.Then stop the crowd: Covid test control.The man at the switch is young, friendly - and corrupt."I can't scan the QR code," he says."What did you bring me?" He is not the only one who wants money, he's just the first one.A border official in uniform asks: "What do you have for me?" A soldier with rifle demands a donation.The woman at customs opens suitcase, searches and says: “Nice bag.May I have them? "