Research shows that women can be effective investors and that when we control more household income, the benefits often extend to our families. Yet women entrepreneurs still receive disproportionately less capital. What might become possible if more capital reached our hands?

We spend a lot of time working on our mindset, discipline and habits. But what if the environment around us is quietly shaping those things too? Sometimes better results require more than thinking differently. Sometimes, you need to change the room.

The recent sanitary-pad conversation raises a much bigger question: what happens when consumers can no longer trust the products they buy? Nigeria’s fake and substandard-product problem is not only about consumer safety. It affects purchasing power, competition, legitimate businesses and something every functioning market depends on: trust.

If you hear the name Aliko...