When Sarah Dusek moved from Montana to Cape Town, she had hung up her hospitality boots. The cofounder of Under Canvas, a collection of tented camps on the edge of national parks across the U.S., had sold the business and stepped down as CEO. She was hoping to spend time in a new city, working on a new business—a venture capital fund that focuses on female entrepreneurs in —and enjoying a part of the world she had fallen madly in love with more than two decades ago while working for an aid company in Zimbabwe.

Her intention was always to go back to the continent, a place she had not stopped thinking about.

“My love of Africa and my passion for its people just did not go away,” says Dusek.

Her plan, however, was not to open another hospitality project—until she and her husband started sc

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