#4: Nisha Kanabar, Founder of Industrie Africa, on Building a Global Digital Window into Local African Fashion

How to Make It in Africa

Our guest is Nisha Kanabar. Nisha Kanabar is a curator and storyteller, and the founder of Industrie Africa. A Tanzanian of Indian origin, Kanabar graduated from Parsons School of Design in New York, and went on to forge a career in luxury fashion and publishing. With over a decade of experience at renowned industry names, she held formative positions at American Vogue, Vogue India and Style.com in the Middle East. Her experience across international markets fuel the desire to channel her work into her home continent's contemporary and luxury designer market with a special focus on diversity. She currently resides in Dar es Salaam Tanzania, whilst her work regularly takes her across the continent and around the world. About the host: Fadel Jaoui, an economist, started this podcast to celebrate African entrepreneurial success stories, to hear the originals and changemakers behind them, and to draw lessons to inspire many more stories across the continent. This virtuous cycle is fundamental to pool talent and investments, and ultimately create startup “unicorns” that would benefit Africa’s prosperity. Fadel is a strong advocate of entrepreneurial ecosystem building and private sector development as true engines of sustainable economic growth. And he is a firm believer in leveraging innovation and technology to leapfrog development constraints and scale up social and economic impact. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Oxford University, as well as degrees from Columbia University and the London School of Economics. He started his career in investment banking in London, and has held various positions in International Financial Institutions (views are his own).