22/05/2026
One girl sells wigs successfully for 3 months and suddenly an entire friendship group becomes “CEO & Founder.”
Now everybody is:
• selling perfume oils
• importing pajamas
• running skincare brands
• teaching passive income
• “fully booked”
Meanwhile one Chinese man nobody notices is quietly buying:
• warehouses
• cold rooms
• trucking routes
• factories
• land near the port
One economy is chasing aesthetics.
The other is buying the systems behind the aesthetics.
This may be the funniest and most painful story about African entrepreneurship we’ve ever written because somewhere between Canva templates and “Hey babe who’s your vendor?” we may have accidentally built a copycat economy.
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