He learned trade from his mother. Now he’s building a pan-African marketplace.

David Chima’s tech journey began with the deep-seated belief in the mechanics of trade. It was a philosophy shaped in the busy markets of Owerri, Imo State, in South-East Nigeria by his mother, a civil servant who ran a trading business to supplement her income.

Chima now applies those early lessons in trade to Kuraway, a business-to-business (B2B) platform that serves as a digital…