Responsible enterprise. Measurable impact.
Ethical Business examines how companies make money, exercise power, treat people, manage resources and create lasting value. From corporate accountability and ESG to climate innovation and impact investment, we investigate the decisions shaping a more responsible African economy.
With sovereign balance sheets stretched thin, converting Rwanda and East Africa’s vast renewable potential into investable generation requires shifting from ambitious state targets to bankable, private sector deals.…
Law of the jungle By Morgan Lewis Efforts to develop a global carbon market are often discussed in terms of climate science, project methodologies, and carbon pricing. However,…
How Kenya’s manufacturers are building lucrative business models out of urban trash By Kirimi Mbogo NAIROBI—Consider the catalytic converter. The metallic honeycomb nestling within a car’s exhaust pipe…
If KCB prices the initial tranche successfully, it sets a regional benchmark for private climate finance. If pricing concessions widen, it proves that even the most audited frameworks…
The new customer is less easily impressed By Kirimi Mbogo A Kenyan entrepreneur turning discarded paper, plastic and agricultural waste into construction tiles has found an old business…
The patient-capital problem By Kirimi Mbogo In 2025 African climate-tech companies raised $1.18bn, a 57% increase from the previous year, according to TechCabal Insights. Yet the number of…
The home is becoming an energy system By Kirimi Mbogo A refrigerator does not look like a power plant. Nor does a solar water heater, an induction cooker…
The boardroom test By Muturi Githae Safaricom has a simple test for its corporate purpose: “Transforming Lives”. The phrase appears in its strategy, sustainability reports and annual accounts.…
By Kirimi Mbogo Nairobi has flooded three times badly enough to shut its flagship road in the past two years. Most recently, on the night of 6 March…
