One of our recent MBA interns ( who originates from Africa) asked us a simple question, which many others have asked us in some form before. “I love the focus on design and brands with the things [Mustard] are building, but do you think this practice is excluding Africa’s poor?”…

Despite the facts relating to cocoa’s origins, what does the end consumer care about when it comes to chocolate; and what does this say about Ghana’s perceived relevance in the global industry? — A good friend who resides in Zurich recently told me of a discussion two people were having, where they asked each other “who has the better chocolate: Switzerland or Belgium?” I retorted, “should the question not be who has the best cocoa, since this is what makes chocolate? And if…

By Ndubuisi Kejeh, Partner at Mustard It was said somewhere that the Berlin Wall was not brought down in 1989 by politics, but by East German youths’ urge for Coca-Cola and Levi Jeans. These products seemingly represented the happiness, rebellion and freedom that wrestled within them behind the Iron Curtain…

By Mpumelelo Mhlongo, South African Para Athlete The story is that there are 80 million people living in Africa with physical and/or intellectual disabilities according to the UN. That’s more than the number of people living in the UK, and approximately the population of Germany. The story is that these…