Based in Nairobi and London, our Africa team is dedicated to helping organisations find qualified, top-performing executives for Africa-based roles.
We work across the continent with social change organisations, multilateral and intergovernmental organisations, NGOs and foundations in a wide range of sectors and disciplines, from organisations supporting post-conflict recovery and reconstruction in fragile states, to those promoting responsible trade, and improved agribusiness practices and incomes for small farmers. We specialise in sourcing candidates with a private sector ethos, who are motivated to work in the increasingly complex international development arena.
We are known as the ‘go to’ agency for hard to fill roles and we are proud of our success in placing African candidates in 90% of the roles we have filled in the last two years. We are heavily invested in continuing to build our already extensive network across the continent and forming critical partnerships with multilateral funding institutions and government institutions to further economic development in the region.
Our team is drawn from experts who have all worked and lived in Africa, understand the market for talent in Africa and have the crucial knowledge and networks needed to find the leaders who will address Africa’s unique challenges.
of placed candidates in the last two years were African nationals
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With our diverse, international staff complement, and nearly 200 years’ collective experience of working in Africa, we are well placed to understand the major social and economic development issues facing the continent and to provide a high calibre service in support of HR and more specific leadership issues. We understand both the opportunities and obstacles to achieving the SDGs in Africa including issues related to improving livelihoods and the business environment, regional integration, the role of transformational technology, state governance, climate change, health and education. Our team strives continuously to further its understanding of the issues and is dedicated to working together with you in the search for a better world.
A selection of our experience in Africa











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- Uganda: The tiny flea making it painful for people to walk and workby Apophia Agiresaasi on 24 June 2022 at 9:17 am
Authorities in western Uganda are battling an outbreak of jiggers that has hit several rural villages. Evangelista Kanohili sits on a mat on the earthen ground outside her tin-roof mud hut in Bwayegamba, a rural parish in western Uganda. Her dusty bare feet are stretched in front of her. Her toes, from the tips to the lower parts, right above the balls of her feet, have small swollen lesions with black spots, some as large as peas. For the last three months, Kanohili’s feet have been infested with jiggers, small parasitic fleas that burrow into skin, usually on feet. Multiple The post Uganda: The tiny flea making it painful for people to walk and work first appeared on African Arguments.
- Somalia faces worst humanitarian crisis in recent historyby Mukesh Kapila on 23 June 2022 at 8:17 am
The most severe drought for 40 years, war in Ukraine, and poor governance have led Somalia to the brink. Aid raised is a fraction of what’s needed. The warnings have been coming for some time. Somalia is on the brink of catastrophe. A recent assessment suggests that 7.7 million Somalis need emergency aid right now. This is a similar number to those affected by the Ethiopian famine in 1984, one of the worst humanitarian disasters in history in which about one million people died. The immediate trigger for the likely famine is three successive years of failed rains leading to The post Somalia faces worst humanitarian crisis in recent history first appeared on African Arguments.
- Believing in gender equality isn’t enough. Men must join the fightby Monica Geingos on 22 June 2022 at 10:33 am
The key to achieving greater female political representation lies with those occupying most leadership positions worldwide: men. Women form more than half of Africa’s population, but you wouldn’t know this from looking at African parliaments, governments, and boardrooms. In sub-Saharan Africa, women remain significantly outnumbered in the upper echelons of public leadership. There are just five women serving as prime ministers and two as presidents, while just over one in four members of parliament is a woman. African women continue to suffer from lack of opportunity and outright prejudice. So, it is no surprise, then, that they are disadvantaged in The post Believing in gender equality isn't enough. Men must join the fight first appeared on African Arguments.
- The bold campaign to defund the East African Crude Oil Pipelineby Sophie Neiman on 22 June 2022 at 9:04 am
Activists have convinced 20 big banks not to finance the controversial oil project leaving its fate in the balance. This February, the heads of TotalEnergies and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) held a long-awaited meeting in Kampala. Together with leaders from Uganda and Tanzania, the French and Chinese energy giants signed a momentous Final Investment Decision for the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). In doing so, what would be the world’s longest heated pipeline – a $5 billion behemoth set to transport oil 1,443km from Uganda’s Lake Albert to the port of Tanga in Tanzania – took The post The bold campaign to defund the East African Crude Oil Pipeline first appeared on African Arguments.
- The unseen trial of Congo’s “phantom spymaster” and what it meansby Jean-Michel Nlandu on 21 June 2022 at 9:45 am
The veteran political operator François Beya Kasonga had been one of the president’s inner circle, until his sudden arrest. Few people manage to navigate the notoriously competitive and complicated world of high-level politics in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) successfully. Even fewer manage to do so consistently for several decades, making themselves indispensable to multiple presidents amid changing political winds and shifting factional battles. A rare exception to this has been François Beya Kasonga. Likened to a phantom by some, he has not just survived Congolese politics over several cycles but quietly risen through its ranks. Having first served The post The unseen trial of Congo's "phantom spymaster" and what it means first appeared on African Arguments.