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Jimmy Carter: Many evolutions for a centenarian ‘citizen of the world’•Award, which is based on GP recommendations is given to individuals driving investments into the Africa Continent • Kuramo Capital Management recognized for their investment in 2X Ignite Africa, TransCentury PLC and Moremi accelerator Program London, United Kingdom, November 20, 2024 – Adewale Adeosun has been named this year’s Limited Partner Person of the Year, Africa at the Private Equity Africa awards held in London, United Kingdom. Mr. Adeosun is the Founder and CEO of Kuramo Capital Management, an investment management firm driving catalytic private institutional capital to fast-growing African businesses to generate attractive returns and positively impact local communities. While receiving the award in London, which is based on GP recommendations, Mr. Adeosun expressed his delight terming the award as a testament to Kuramo’s commitment to investing in the continent. “I am honored and humbled to have received the LP Person of the year award. It is a testament of all the work we at Kuramo have been doing for the last over 10 years. It is a testament to the team at Kuramo Capital. We have helped catalyze over USD 3.5Billion for the continent and have transformed the private equity ecosystem by supporting first time fund managers and that is the recognition we have received today,” said Mr. Adeosun. Mr. Adeosun has been instrumental in the growth of Kuramo’s investment portfolio since inception. Kuramo has direct and indirect investments in 200 companies in 30 sub-Saharan African countries including Kenya and Nigeria in various sectors including Fast-Moving Consumer Goods, Infrastructure-Power, Agribusiness, Technology, and Financial Services. During the Private Equity Awards, Kuramo Capital Management received a special recognition award, Fund of funds Investor Award, for their investment in 2X Ignite Africa Investment Facility for Warehousing Capital; TransCentury Plc, an investment Holding Company, headquartered in Kenya, with a focus on infrastructure (energy, transport, water and agriculture); and Moremi accelerator Program, an initiative to empower the next generation of African women enterprises and promote gender-equitable fund management. As the pioneering fund-of-funds for sub-Saharan Africa, Kuramo Capital has had a tremendous impact in leading catalytic capital into the sub-Saharan Africa private equity ecosystem. “We started off as a Sub-Sahara private equity shop. We are now Pan African, and we do have a goal to continue investing in other countries that are growing really fast and we are finding great opportunities. We are looking at Southern African countries, North African countries and Central Africa. This is in addition to the work we have been doing in the DR Congo where we invested in Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC), turning it around by empowering Congolese to run the business,” added Mr. Adeosun Since 2017, Kuramo Capital Management has invested over $50million in Plantations et Huileries du Congo, the leading industrial palm oil producer in the Democratic Republic of Congo, while ncatalyzing nearly $200 million investments from other partners, including development finance institutions. PHC’s Director General, Ms. Monique Gieskes lauded Mr. Adeosun following the receipt of the award, calling on the spirit of Pan Africanism in the growth of investments not only in DRC but Africa as a whole. “We are deeply honored to see Mr. Wale Adeosun and Kuramo Capital Management recognized for their strategic commitment to Africa’s economy. Kuramo’s trust and confidence allow us to work in harmony with the local context and fully contribute to the prosperity of the DRC. When Africans come together, as Kuramo has done through investments that empower local initiatives in the DRC and beyond, we collectively build a strong foundation for the continent’s growth and a prosperous future “, said Ms Gieskes. According to Kuramo CEO, Kuramo will continue finding businesses such as PHC across the continent. “We believe the growth opportunities in the continent are immense and it’s our job to find them and support the businesses.” The Private Equity Africa (PEA) Awards celebrate excellence in private equity and venture capital investments across Africa. It aims to recognize outstanding firms, deals, and individuals that contribute to the growth and development of the African economy through impactful investments. “The people that have invested in private equity are in the room. These are the people that have put billions of dollars into the continent yet have done it quietly. They have built roads, they have built infrastructure, they have built consumer companies. They invest in schools, they invest in hospitals and without these investors, Africa would not be where it is today,” said Gail Mwamba, Managing Editor, Private Equity Africa. The awards are evaluated based on performance and success of investments; innovation and strategic approach; economic and social impact; Leadership and governance and return on investment. “For Wale’s personal award, it is the people in the industry that have voted for him to say that he is a cornerstone to the industry and an anchor to Africa,” added Ms. Mwamba. Mr. Adeosun serves on the Boards of several portfolio companies, and he was the Chairman of the Investment Advisory Committee of the $280 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund. In 2014, he was appointed to serve on President Obama’s Advisory Council on Doing Business Africa. Prior to founding Kuramo Capital, Wale Adeosun was Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), where he managed $1 billion in endowment and pension assets. Prior to RPI, he was a Managing Director in the Investments Group of the MacArthur Foundation in Chicago with oversight of $2 billion in U.S. equities and hedge fund investments. He also currently serves as the Chairman of the Nigeria Higher Education Foundation (NHEF), a foundation based in New York City created by the MacArthur Foundation in 2004 to assist Nigerian Universities in preparing the next generation of global leaders. About Kuramo Capital Management, LLC Kuramo Capital Management is an independent investment management firm founded in 2010, championing private commercial capital into Africa. We provide targeted global investment management services to institutional clients and ultra-high net worth individuals, focused on alternative assets in emerging and frontier markets. In almost 15 years, Kuramo has redefined the landscape of private equity in Africa, with nearly $500 million under management. Kuramo has helped catalyze nearly $3.5 billion to African private equity firms and businesses. We are the leading conduit for private institutional capital into Africa.
Forthright and fearless, the Nobel Prize winner took pot-shots at former prime minister Tony Blair and ex-US president George W Bush among others. His death came after repeated bouts of illness in which images of the increasingly frail former president failed to erase memories of his fierce spirit. Democrat James Earl “Jimmy” Carter Jr swept to power in 1977 with his Trust Me campaign helping to beat Republican president Gerald Ford. Serving as 39th US president from 1977 to 1981, he sought to make government “competent and compassionate” but was ousted by the unstoppable Hollywood appeal of a certain Ronald Reagan. A skilled sportsman, Mr Carter left his home of Plains, Georgia, to join the US Navy, returning later to run his family’s peanut business. A stint in the Georgia senate lit the touchpaper on his political career and he rose to the top of the Democratic movement. But he will also be remembered for a bizarre encounter with a deeply disgruntled opponent. The president was enjoying a relaxing fishing trip near his home town in 1979 when his craft was attacked by a furious swamp rabbit which reportedly swam up to the boat hissing wildly. The press had a field day, with one paper bearing the headline President Attacked By Rabbit. Away from encounters with belligerent bunnies, Mr Carter’s willingness to address politically uncomfortable topics did not diminish with age. He recently said that he would be willing to travel to North Korea for peace talks on behalf of US President Donald Trump. He also famously mounted a ferocious and personal attack on Tony Blair over the Iraq war, weeks before the prime minister left office in June 2007. Mr Carter, who had already denounced George W Bush’s presidency as “the worst in history”, used an interview on BBC radio to condemn Mr Blair for his tight relations with Mr Bush, particularly concerning the Iraq War. Asked how he would characterise Mr Blair’s relationship with Mr Bush, Mr Carter replied: “Abominable. Loyal, blind, apparently subservient. “I think that the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world.” Mr Carter was also voluble over the Rhodesia crisis, which was about to end during his presidency. His support for Robert Mugabe at the time generated widespread criticism. He was said to have ignored the warnings of many prominent Zimbabweans, black and white, about what sort of leader Mugabe would be. This was seen by Mr Carter’s critics as “deserving a prominent place among the outrages of the Carter years”. Mr Carter has since said he and his administration had spent more effort and worry on Rhodesia than on the Middle East. He admitted he had supported two revolutionaries in Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo, and with hindsight said later that Mugabe had been “a good leader gone bad”, having at first been “a very enlightened president”. One US commentator wrote: “History will not look kindly on those in the West who insisted on bringing the avowed Marxist Mugabe into the government. “In particular, the Jimmy Carter foreign policy... bears some responsibility for the fate of a small African country with scant connection to American national interests.” In recent years Mr Carter developed a reputation as an international peace negotiator. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his commitment to finding peaceful solutions to international conflicts, his work with human rights and democracy initiatives, and his promotion of economic and social programmes. Mr Carter was dispatched to North Korea in August 2008 to secure the release of US citizen Aijalon Mahli Gomes, who had been sentenced to eight years of hard labour after being found guilty of illegally entering North Korea. He successfully secured the release of Mr Gomes. In 2010 he returned to the White House to greet President Barack Obama and discuss international affairs amid rising tensions on the Korean peninsula. Proving politics runs in the family, in 2013 his grandson Jason, a state senator, announced his bid to become governor in Georgia, where his famous grandfather governed before becoming president. He eventually lost to incumbent Republican Nathan Deal. Fears that Mr Carter’s health was deteriorating were sparked in 2015 when he cut short an election observation visit in Guyana because he was “not feeling well”. It would have been Mr Carter’s 39th trip to personally observe an international election. Three months later, on August 12, he revealed he had cancer which had been diagnosed after he underwent surgery to remove a small mass in his liver. Mr Obama was among the well-wishers hoping for Mr Carter’s full recovery after it was confirmed the cancer had spread widely. Melanoma had been found in his brain and liver, and Mr Carter underwent immunotherapy and radiation therapy, before announcing in March the following year that he no longer needed any treatment. In 2017, Mr Carter was taken to hospital as a precaution, after he became dehydrated at a home-building project in Canada. He was admitted to hospital on multiple occasions in 2019 having had a series of falls, suffering a brain bleed and a broken pelvis, as well as a stint to be treated for a urinary tract infection. Mr Carter spent much of the coronavirus pandemic largely at his home in Georgia, and did not attend Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration in 2021, but extended his “best wishes”. Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, the closest adviser to Mr Carter during his term as US president, died in November 2023. She had been living with dementia and suffering many months of declining health. “Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished,” Mr Carter said in a statement following her death. “She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it. As long as Rosalynn was in the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported me.”