Through deliberate planning, their companies like the English and Dutch merchant companies boosted their nation’s economy in search of business opportunities abroad. Similarly, the Asian Tigers followed suit and created champion companies of their own.

In this episode, our host, John Akhile, author of Unleashed: A New Paradigm of African Trade with the World, discusses what made these past companies so successful and what African countries can do today to follow in their footsteps and create champion companies of their own.

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