Butterfly Coalition Blog

Nearly thirty years ago, I cycled 14,500 kilometres through 17 African countries over 18 months, adventures I wrote about in my book Esprit de Battuta. Yes, I know it was mad, but it brought adventures and encounters that changed my life. Throughout my solo ride, I observed the hard,...

“I just want to see how we can move things forward – because I don’t think anything should be this hard.”[1]

The voice saying this to me was young, a woman in her twenties, not an age at which one expects to hear so much clear exasperation and exhaustion. What had happened...

“Governance is not the icing on the cake; it is the cake.”[1]

A Nigerian business thought leader said this to me recently and I loved her comment! It resonated with my experience of running small for profit and social enterprises in Nigeria and consulting to larger companies there...