{"id":14296,"date":"2026-04-06T08:54:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T08:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/businessman-bullish-on-made-in-africa\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T08:54:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T08:54:06","slug":"businessman-bullish-on-made-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/businessman-bullish-on-made-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Businessman bullish on \u2018Made in Africa\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Interview with Saikat Chowdhury<\/strong><br \/>CO-FOUNDER and MANAGING DIRECTOR, NIV\u00c9SAL<\/p>\n<p>Lives in: Singapore<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong>Every month, thousands of shipping containers arrive at African ports, filled with goods that Saikat Chowdhury believes should be made on the continent. Despite its vast natural resources, Africa contributes less than 2% to global manufacturing output. As the managing director of Niv\u00e9Sal, a Singapore-based engineering projects company, Chowdhury argues that this reliance on imports unnecessarily inflates prices for everyday citizens. He points out that the world\u2019s poorest&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howwemadeitinafrica.com\/businessman-bullish-on-made-in-africa\/184106\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interview with Saikat ChowdhuryCO-FOUNDER and MANAGING DIRECTOR, NIV\u00c9SAL Lives in: Singapore Every month, thousands of shipping containers arrive at African ports, filled&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-14296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14296","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=14296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}