SBGA GATEWAYS

Small Business Gateway Africa (SBGA) has five business gateways, namely: Small Business Gateway Central Africa (SBGCA), Small Business Gateway Southern Africa (SBGSA), Small Business Gateway North Africa (SBGNA), Small Business Gateway East Africa (SBGEA), and Small Business Gateway West Africa (SBGWA). The primary objective is to advance African Entrepreneurship through connecting, coaching and providing advisory and research services to African Entrepreneurs.

E-Business Directory

We cap our robust strategies for developing African entrepreneurship and small businesses by providing a novel electronic directory for notable SMEs in Africa. The benchmarks for being notable are: Strong passion in developing African entrepreneurship and small businesses, innovation and creativity, service quality, customer care, corporate governance, decent work, productivity, business networking and sustainability. The directory is structured around the key regional economies in Africa. Consequently, the directory has Small Business Gateway Southern Africa, Small Business Gateway Central Africa, Small Business Gateway West Africa, Small Business Gateway East Africa and Small Business Gateway North Africa. Therefore, if you are an African entrepreneur operating an SME and you identify yourself as notable, that is, as described here in, and you would like to list your business in our directory, kindly get in touch with our marketing desk. importantly, this electronic directory further enhances your market visibility as well as increasing opportunities for your strategic networking and getting business deals. So what are you still waiting for? Register in our Small Business Gateway Africa Today.

Business Lifestories

We help you cement your legacy in African Entrepreneurship by listening to you as you reflect on your business journey. We then put your business lifestory into writing for the benefit of yourself and for future generations. We simply ask you ‘what is it like to start, manage and grow your own business?” and you just start narrating your business life story and journey as you like. It is both fun and exciting and above all a great learning experience that helps you to further manage your business more effectively.

Business Advisory

We provide top notch business advisory services.

Business Networking

We provide virtual business networking services.

African Youth Entrepreneurship (AYE)

Whether girl child or boy child, African Youth Entrepreneurs (AYE) constitute yet another significant population that we target in our efforts of developing African entrepreneurship and small businesses. Indeed, just as AYE implies yes, our African Youth Entrepreneurs (AYE) are mostly open to change, creativity and collaboration. By being predominantly change driven, creative and collaborative our AYE continuously strive to challenge the status quo. Consequently, it is only noble to give AYE a chance. Therefore, we have in place an assortment of professional business management consultancy services specifically tailored to meet the unique needs of the African Youth Entrepreneur. Notably, Sahwira SME Hub is an exemplar strategic intervention. Crucially, helping our AYEs tap into Africa’s emerging economies is central to what we do. Consequently, if you identify as an AYE, kindly get in touch with our marketing desk and connect with your colleague.

African Women Entrepreneurship (AWE)

Considering African women make the African home and constitute the majority of Africa’s population, our strategies for developing African entrepreneurship and small businesses are also buttressed by our distinct programmes to cater for African Women Entrepreneurs (AWE). This is critical to address the historical challenges that women in business confront not just in Africa, but globally. Notably, here at Small Business Gateway Africa, we deem our African Women Entrepreneurs to be awesome in their entrepreneurship and we do all we can to facilitate successful achievement of their business dreams. Consequently, if you identify yourself as an Awesome African Women Entrepreneur, get in touch with our marketing desk and connect with your colleagues.

Regional Business Linkages

To strengthen our passion and strategies for developing African entrepreneurship, we have in place five regional SME Gateways. These are Small Business Gateway Central Africa, Small Business Gateway Southern Africa, Small Business Gateway North Africa, Small Business East Africa and Small Business Gateway West Africa. Therefore, through these regional SME Gateways, African Entrepreneurs are able to foster longlasting strategic partnerships for improved business success.

International Business Linkages

We provide financial and management accounting services to help you correctly interpret your financial performance and improve the future of your business.

Underpinning our strategies for developing African entrepreneurship and small businesses also include our international business linkages programme. Through this strategy and programmes, we help African entrepreneurs: established small and medium enterprise businesses seeking to upscale via internationalization to foster notable strategic business partnerships with established entrepreneurs in global markets. Therefore, if you are an African SME and wish to foster key strategic partnership with well-established entrepreneurs in global markets, kindly get in touch with our marketing desk. Similarly, if you are a well-established entrepreneur in global markets other than Africa and have a strong passion in advancing African entrepreneurship and small businesses, also get in touch with us, so we could deliberate on this crucial matter.

Join Us

Small Business Gateway Africa Community

Register today to become a member of any of our SME Gateways: SBGA Community Central Africa, North Africa, Southern Africa, East Africa or West Africa. Membership is not only restricted to SMEs but is also open to professionals in the private , public and civic sectors including development partners.