Africa is a continent that has great potential in the world of business, because there are so many problems that need solving.

However, issues like the lack of adequate capital, multiple taxation, lack of adequate electricity, unfavourable public policies, inadequate supply chain access and more heavily affects start-ups and stifle their potential for growth.

But some businesses have been able to sail through all those problems and have operated for centuries.

MyNigeria has researched and listed the companies below, accompanied with the year they started operating:

1. Air Burkina - Burkina Faso - 1967

2. Halfo Mining - Guinea - 1962

3. Rokel Commercial Bank - Sierra Leone - 1917

4. Dakar - Niger Railway - Senegal - 1924

5. Correios De Cabo Verde - Cape Verde - 1849

6. La Poste du Togo - Togo - 1883

7. National Port Authority - Liberia - 1921

8. Central Bank of Mauritania - Mauritania - 1973

9. First Bank of Nigeria - Nigeria - 1894

10. Umma Bank - Libya - 1907

11. Egyptian National Railways - Egypt - 1854

12. Bank of Khartoum - Sudan - 1913

13. National Bank of Ethiopia - Ethiopia - 1906

14. Tanzania Breweries Limited - Tanzania - 1933

15. Air Madagascar - Madagascar - 1962

16. Premier FMCG - South Africa - 1820

17. Nampost - Namibia - 1814

18. KCGB Group Limited - Kenya - 1896

19. Cotonchad - Chad - 1971

20. Hamoud Boualem - Algeria - 1878.

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