THE MOMBASA PORT PLAYBOOK A Business Guide by Mukamba & Company Advocates, Nairobi China is already Mombasa’s second-largest source of container imports by value, and every one of those shipments currently flows through a Kenyan …
Read MoreFROM SHENZHEN TO NAIROBI A Business Guide by Mukamba & Company Advocates, Nairobi Registering a Kenyan company from Shenzhen is the easy part. It takes a government filing fee of KES 10,650 and, on current …
Read MoreBEYOND LUBUMBASHI A Business Guide by Mukamba & Company Advocates, Nairobi Lubumbashi built the wealth. Increasingly, it isn’t where that wealth is managed from. A growing number of Congolese entrepreneurs, having built trading, mining-services, or …
Read MoreTHE EAC ADVANTAGE A Business Guide by Mukamba & Company Advocates, Nairobi Most people assume cross-border incorporation is slow by nature: forms, embassies, stamps, waiting rooms. In Kenya, that assumption is simply out of date. …
Read MoreFROM KINSHASA TO NAIROBI A Business Guide by Mukamba & Company Advocates, Nairobi Every week, a Congolese trader or mining executive walks into a Nairobi lawyer’s office holding a Kinshasa business card and asks the …
Read MoreTHE EAC TWO-STEP A Business Guide by Mukamba & Company Advocates, Nairobi Most founders think of their Rwandan company and their Kenyan company as two separate problems. In practice, if you get the structure right, …
Read MoreKIGALI BUILT THE RUNWAY A Business Guide by Mukamba & Company Advocates, Nairobi Rwanda built its founders exceptionally well. Company registration in Kigali takes about six hours; the World Bank has scored Rwanda near the …
Read More“RWANDA IS OPEN” TO “KENYA IS READY” A Business Guide by Mukamba & Company Advocates, Nairobi “Rwanda is open for business” has been the country’s pitch to founders for years, and it has largely delivered: …
Read MoreMARITIME TRADE TO MALL OWNERSHIP A Business Guide by Mukamba & Company Advocates, Nairobi The journey is a familiar one for many Somali business families: capital built through maritime and cross-border trade, pooled between brothers, …
Read MoreFROM MOGADISHU TO EASTLEIGH TO HARAMBEE AVENUE A Business Guide by Mukamba & Company Advocates, Nairobi Eastleigh alone is estimated to contribute around 30% of Nairobi County’s revenue, built almost entirely on Somali entrepreneurship and …
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