How e-commerce platform rose from market fire ashes

Carlos Kisangi, the co-founder of Toi Market platform. PHOTO | PETER CHANGTOEK | NMG

Growing up in Kibera, Nairobi, Carlos Kisangi, 24, used to buy goods at the nearby Toi Market. One day, when he came back from university, he realised that Toi Market had been razed by fire. It is this fire that became the spark he needed to launch his online web business.

His idea solidified when he saw some university students juggling between business and studying. If only they could have a website, he thought, they could do their various businesses conveniently.

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