| 26.10.2011 Other Voices: Africa needs flexible capital as well as patient capital |
| By Kayode Akindele, Funsho Allu and Fred Binka: partners of 46 Parallels LLP, an investment management business based in London and Lagos. The current focus on supplying finance to the microfinance/SME sector is admirable, but orphans a swathe of important companies across Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). These African enterprises, termed “graduating SMEs”, have outgrown the SME lenders(loans up to $ |