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Bujumbura
✅Looking forward… from September 5 to 10, I was in Burundi, one of the poorest countries in the world. Yet, on a personal level, I also know Burundi as a country filled with enthusiastic, young, and entrepreneurial people. ✅ I have been visiting regularly since 2010—initially through my initiative ‘Africa Business Coaching’ and, since 2025, […]
Entrepreneurship Bootcamp Morocco
🌍Super fun. Last weekend, I led an intensive Entrepreneurship Bootcamp together with Abderrahim Quadrassi of the EuroAfrica Foundation for a group of emerging startups from the Association Cooperation Tetouan in Morocco.🌍Creative preparationAbderrahim saw that I offer Masterclasses with my Africa Business Coaching, based on my 35 years of international retail business experience. With some good […]
Free consults at the IATF2025 in Algiers
At IATF2025, I gave free consultations to young entrepreneurs who were eager to export their product portfolios. This led to stimulating discussions and eye-opening insights. It was wonderful to see that these enthusiastic entrepreneurs took the suggestions to heart and want to continue doing so in their home countries. Among them were Meti from Ethiopia, […]
IATF2025 (Intra-African Trade Fair) in Algeria
Last week, September 5-10, I attended the IATF2025 (Intra-African Trade Fair), in Algiers, Algeria.🍅 was a huge fair with participation from many countries across the continent.The focus was truly on accelerating trade between African countries.🍅 How can we work together to remove barriers, facilitate digital business, and above all, proactively seek out business partners ourselves? […]
5 days at the Africa Food Systems Forum in Dakar, Senegal
Very impressive and inspiring…🌍 In early September, I spent five days with 5,000 participants at the Africa Food Systems Forum AFSF 2025 in Dakar, Senegal.🌍 There were 155 international organizations, 2 presidents, 40 African ministers, including 2,000 invited young people from many African countries, and everyone concerned with sustainable agriculture and healthy food on the […]
Visual Merchandising Training
Very inspiring… In June 2025, I was in Mbale, Uganda to train 30 vegetable & fruit sellers for Rikolto at the Central Market in visual merchandising, integral product quality and customer service. What an enthusiastic group! They are really open to getting to the next level. 🍅 Rikolto Global Support asked me to take care […]
Largest Food & Vegetable market Paris
Paris, Marché Barbès, near Gare du Nord, the impressive largest Fruit & Vegetable market. Great place, great products, great people!
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