Africa's Enduring Enterprises

Editorial features

Research-led essays published natively on this website. Selected features may subsequently be adapted for LinkedIn and Substack.

• Why Africa’s Enterprises Must Outlive Their Founders
  Founding thesis · Governance and succession
• Kakira: The Company That Had to Be Rebuilt
  Case study · Madhvani and development finance
• Three Models of Institutional Continuity
  Comparative feature · Cooperative, bank and airline

From a question about Uganda's oldest businesses to a research programme

“Entrepreneurs start the businesses but never build the governance and institutions to ensure their longevity beyond the founder's vision.”

— Kenneth Legesi, responding to the original X post by @ekiggundu.

The response was accompanied by a handwritten Uganda Business Longevity & Institution-Building Map, bringing together enterprise-age data, examples of longstanding Ugandan businesses, the succession challenge, and the institutional reforms needed to build enduring enterprises.

Read the original conversation on X ↗

Editorial note: the map's establishment counts, founding dates and implied survival rates are research leads, not independently validated longitudinal survival estimates. The original handwritten image is awaiting upload to the public website asset library.