Rwanda – the cleantech Silicon Valley of Africa?
In February, Grantham PhD student Oliver Schmidt, who is part of the Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet DTP, joined an impact investing trip through Rwanda. He visited two start-ups from Imperial College London that are trying to make the case for low-carbon ‘cleantech’ business in Africa, and compared them to a third operating across the continent. I did have my doubts when booking flights to Rwanda. The country is infamous for the genocide in 1994. Eastern Congo, j
