{"id":13809,"date":"2026-03-16T04:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/how-this-entrepreneur-turned-nigerias-cassava-into-a-thriving-business\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T04:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:26:15","slug":"how-this-entrepreneur-turned-nigerias-cassava-into-a-thriving-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/how-this-entrepreneur-turned-nigerias-cassava-into-a-thriving-business\/","title":{"rendered":"How this entrepreneur turned Nigeria\u2019s cassava into a thriving business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_184044\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-184044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yemisi Iranloye<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Our new book,\u00a0<em>How we made it in Africa II: Real stories of entrepreneurs turning opportunity into profit,<\/em>\u00a0is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/books.howwemadeitinafrica.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow ugc noopener\" target=\"_blank\">available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interview with Yemisi Iranloye<\/strong><br \/>FOUNDER and CEO, PSALTRY INTERNATIONAL<\/p>\n<p>Lives in: Nigeria<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cassava is a root crop that resembles a large sweet potato. Nigeria produces and consumes more of it than any other country. Most often, it is processed into garri or fufu, which are eaten as thick, dough-like accompaniments used to scoop up traditional soups and stews.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, cassava also has major industrial applications. The roots can be&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howwemadeitinafrica.com\/how-this-entrepreneur-turned-nigerias-cassava-into-a-thriving-business\/184040\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemisi Iranloye Our new book,\u00a0How we made it in Africa II: Real stories of entrepreneurs turning opportunity into profit,\u00a0is\u00a0available here. Interview with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3454,3507],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}