Think independently.
We are interested in what works, not what Africa is conventionally told it should do.
About DWM
We are building DWM around one idea:
Africa can compete.
But competitiveness has to be built.
It requires businesses that can obtain capital at sensible prices. Banks that make good decisions. Entrepreneurs who build rather than simply seek employment. Institutions that work. Reliable energy. Open markets. Trade. Technology that removes friction.
DWM works where we think we can make a difference. Sometimes we build something ourselves. Sometimes we build with others. And sometimes our contribution is simply an idea, a relationship or bringing the right people together.
Today that work is concentrated in three areas:
Capital & Markets
Institutional Capability
Entrepreneurship
Pivot Africa, a partnership between DWM and iiAfrica
DWM also develops and publishes ideas around the wider competitiveness agenda.
We are deliberately small.
We would rather build a few things that work than attach our name to many things that don’t.
Our approach.
Build practically.
A good idea becomes valuable when someone executes it.
Partner intelligently.
We don’t need to own everything. Where somebody else is excellent, we would rather build with them.
Connect Africa outward.
Africa’s future will be shaped partly by its ability to build deeper commercial relationships with the rest of the world. Asia is an important part of that future.
Measure the outcome.
A conference is not an outcome. A report is not an outcome. An introduction is not an outcome.
Capital raised. Trade financed. Bankers improved. Businesses created. Those are outcomes.