Kabir Audu has returned to Nigeria after working on Wall Street
“It was Ben Gurion in the late 1940s,” he says.
“He called on Israelis around the world to come home. To build an Israel greater than their wildest imagination.”
He pauses.
“We see Nigeria every day – tremendous talent, this tremendous potential. Imagine if it’s wielded toward one vision.”
Kabir and his friend Tunji Abdul are living proof of Nigeria’s mass migration homeward.
Both were making a fortune on Wall Street. Both were bored. They launched Horizon Capital Investment (HCI). Read the rest of this entry »
Despite the considerable potential that exists to produce electricity using renewable energy (RE) in Southern Africa, RE projects have been largely limited to off-grid, small-scale applications. However, the renewable energy market in South Africa is expected to grow exponentially in the next few years, owing to the announcement of the renewable energy feed-in tariff made in March 2009.
