01African Purpose
African Family Businesses
Family enterprises carry most of Africa's jobs, wealth and inheritance. We help them institutionalise — governance, capital, succession and continuity — so that what one generation builds, the next can grow.
Supporting the institutionalisation, governance, succession, financing, and long-term sustainability of African-owned enterprises across generations.
The African family business is the continent's dominant enterprise form and its most fragile. Businesses that took a generation to build are routinely lost in the transfer to the next one — not for want of commercial success, but for want of structure: no shareholders' agreement, no family constitution, no separation between family money and company money, and no agreed answer to who decides what when the founder is no longer there.
We work on that problem before it becomes a dispute. That means professionalising governance, documenting ownership, planning succession and estate structures, and putting the enterprise into a condition where external capital can be raised without the family losing control of what it built.
The capabilities behind it
Who leads this platform
Ruth SebatindiraSC
Founder & Managing Partner
Racheal Arinaitwe
Principal Partner
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