Bohdan Vorontsov·12h agoBetween Giants: How Benin Turns Its Neighbors Into an AdvantageA narrow country wedged between Nigeria and the Sahel has built a strategy around the one thing it cannot change: its location.
Bohdan Vorontsov·2d agoChad Is Not Where Most Investors Look. That Is the PointWhy the hardest markets sometimes carry the clearest advantage.
Bohdan Vorontsov·Sep 26What Mozambique’s Hidden Debt Crisis Taught the Market About This GovernmentIn 2016, Mozambique’s government was found to have concealed over a billion dollars in loans, guaranteed by the state but hidden from…
Bohdan Vorontsov·Sep 7Bohdan Vorontsov: Ethiopia — The East African Market That Rewards Patience More Than Any OtherWhat consistent presence in Ethiopia has taught me about how this market actually works.
Bohdan Vorontsov·Aug 18Bohdan Vorontsov: South Africa as Strategy — Why Every Serious Southern African Investment…Not just a country investment. The infrastructure of a regional strategy.
Bohdan Vorontsov·Jul 27Bohdan Vorontsov: Why the First Meeting in Africa Never Closes the Deal — And What This Means for…A direct account from years of official business missions across the Global South.
Bohdan Vorontsov·Jul 23Bohdan Vorontsov: The Consulting Firm Problem in Frontier Markets — And Why VILNI Business Platform…The analysis is usually right. The implementation is where investments fail. Here’s why — and what we do about it.
Bohdan Vorontsov·Jun 12What I Learned About Business in Africa That No Business School Will Teach YouMost of what the Western business world thinks it knows about Africa is wrong.
Illia Fedorenko·Jun 12The Last Open Market: Why Africa Is the Business Opportunity No One Wants to Talk AboutThere is a conversation happening in boardrooms across Europe and North America right now. It sounds something like this: “We need new…
Bohdan Vorontsov·Jun 8Bohdan Vorontsov: The Global South Is Where the Next Decade of Real Investment Returns Is Being…Not a forecast. A conclusion drawn from being there.
