Joyce Kamande on Safi Organics: Making Farming Profitable, Not Sexy
Joyce Kamande grew up in a farming community in central Kenya knowing exactly what a bad harvest could mean: less food at home, unpaid school fees and a household whose fortunes could turn on what happened in the field.
Her plan was to build a very different life.
Instead, a university research project pulled her back into agriculture.
First came briquettes. They failed.
Then mosquito coils. Those didn’t quite work either.
What emerged from those experiments became Safi Organics — a Kenyan company turning agricultural waste into locally produced organic fertiliser.
In this episode of Preneur Today, Joyce talks about what it really takes to build an agricultural business around the farmer.
We get into product development, failed ideas, farmer trust, local manufacturing, decentralised production, carbon credits, youth in agriculture, capital and the economics of getting fertiliser closer to the people who actually use it.
Joyce explains why the farmer gets the final say, why Safi keeps changing its products based on how farmers actually use them, and why climate language means very little if the farmer is not seeing better yields, lower costs and a more profitable farm.
We also discuss Safi’s capital journey — from founder capital and grants to debt, equity and its current raise — and why agricultural businesses need investors who understand seasons, working capital and the realities of farming.
And perhaps most importantly, Joyce makes a simple argument about the future of agriculture:
Farming doesn’t need to be sexy. It needs to be profitable.
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27 Oct 2026
Megan Mukuria on ZanaAfrica: Why Sanitary Pads Were Only the Beginning
More than twenty years ago, Megan Mukuria noticed something unexpected while working with children who had lived on the streets in Kenya: after bread, sanitary pads were one of the organisation’s biggest expenses per child.
Bread had an obvious solution. Pads turned out to be much more complicated.
That discovery began the journey that became ZanaAfrica.
In this episode of Preneur Today, Megan reflects on more than two decades of work spanning menstrual health, local manufacturing, reproductive-health education, research, gender norms, public policy and digital health.
We talk about what happens when evidence challenges assumptions, why access to pads is only one part of the picture, and how staying focused on what girls actually need pushed the work far beyond the product Megan originally set out to provide.
A conversation about products, evidence, systems change, dignity, agency — and what it means to keep thinking bigger as the problem reveals itself.
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20 Oct 2026
June Odongo on Senga: Hidden Bottlenecks in Retail Supply Chains
What happens when the biggest problems in logistics are not always the most visible ones?
In this episode of Preneur Today, I sit down with June Odongo, founder of Senga Technologies, to talk about nearly a decade of building in East Africa’s logistics and fulfilment ecosystem.
June reflects on Senga’s evolution from coordinating shippers and trucks to tackling the deeper operational and information problems that sit between suppliers, retailers and transporters. We talk about process re-engineering, retail fulfilment, pricing pressure, bootstrapping, fundraising, customer insight, technology and the discipline required to keep evolving a business without losing sight of the problem it is trying to solve.
A candid conversation about supply chains, founder judgment, capital, integrity and what it takes to build something durable over the long term.
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15 Oct 2026
Caitlin Dolkart on rescue.co: Why Ambulances Aren’t Enough
What happens when ambulances exist, hospitals exist and patients need help — but the system connecting them doesn’t?
In this episode of Preneur Today, we sit down with Caitlin Dolkart, co-founder of Flare & rescue.co, to talk about building emergency-response infrastructure in Africa.
Caitlin shares how she and co-founder Maria Rabinovich discovered that the problem was not simply a shortage of ambulances, but the fragmented system between the patient, the responder and the hospital.
We talk about trust, technology, emergency healthcare, the economics of response, building a reliable provider network, scaling safely and what it means to build a company whose promise is that when something goes wrong, help will come.
A conversation about much more than ambulances — and what it takes to build the infrastructure between an emergency and survival.
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6 Oct 2026
Norah Magero on Drop Access: From Invention to Business
What does it take to turn an invention into a business — especially when you’re building hardware in Africa?
In this episode of Preneur Today, I sit down with Norah Magero, co-founder and CEO of Drop Access, to talk about the journey behind VacciBox, the realities of building and manufacturing hardware locally, healthcare access, capital, and what it takes to create technology that works in the real world.
Norah reflects on how seeing gaps in vaccine access — where the medicine existed but the infrastructure around electricity, refrigeration and last-mile delivery did not — helped shape the problems she wanted to solve.
A candid conversation about engineering, health tech, African manufacturing, funding, commercialisation and moving from prototype to viable business.
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29 Sept 2026
Sonia Kabra on BuuPass: Bus Tickets to Africa's Mobility Infrastructure
After winning the Hult Prize with an idea around bus booking, Sonia Kabra and her co-founder discovered that the bigger opportunity was not simply helping passengers buy tickets — it was helping transport operators run better businesses.
In this episode of Preneur Today, Sonia talks about the evolution of BuuPass, building trust with transport operators, moving from ticketing into deeper mobility infrastructure, navigating capital and growth, and what happens when the problem you start with turns out to be only the beginning.
A candid conversation about entrepreneurship, co-founder dynamics, transport, technology — and building beyond the original idea.
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22 Sept 2026
Hilda Moraa on Pezesha: SME Credit, Capital & Building for the Long Term
After building and succesfully exiting her first company, Hilda Moraa started again with Pezesha — and found herself on an even bigger entrepreneurial journey.
She joins Preneur Today to talk about Pezesha’s evolution, SME credit, AI and alternative data, responsible financial inclusion, debt versus equity, and what building for the long term demands of a founder.
A candid conversation about capital, conviction and durability...
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17 Sept 2026
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Preneur Today is back with new episodes starting September 22, 2026 .
Season 2 brings together some of Africa's most interesting founders and operators for conversations about the decisions, pivots, capital, mistakes and conviction behind what they're building.
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