Moral Footprint11 Jul 2025

Rethinking NGOs and Silicon Valley VC in Africa with Joy Njeri

Jeni Miles speaks with Joy Njeri, systems doula and regenerative economy advocate, about why current African development models are creating dependency rather than empowerment.

From NGOs to corporate work, Joy exposes how Western funding structures perpetuate colonial patterns in both humanitarian and venture capital sectors, advocating instead for community-led, regenerative economics approaches.

Key Takeaways:

•Question the dependency models created by NGO funding that prioritise donor agendas over local solutions.

•Recognise how Silicon Valley VC replicates colonial extraction by favouring white founders and imposed scaling models.

•Understand why 70% of African startups fail at seed stage due to misaligned Western investment criteria.

•Explore indigenous wisdom systems like commitment pooling as alternatives to extractive business models.

•Examine how Tempo Arts community created regenerative solutions near Kenya's largest dump site — without external funding.

•Embrace businesses as interconnected living systems that must strengthen, not extract from, their communities.

About Joy: Joy co-authored the upcoming book Seismic Questions and contributes to the Doughnut Economics community in Kenya.

Next Steps:

• Leave a review to help others discover the show.

• Follow Joy on LinkedIn

• Follow Jeni on LinkedIn

• Subscribe to the Moral Footprint Substack

Links & Resources:

•Seismic Questions (book)

•Tempo Arts Centre (Kenya)

•Grassroots Economics

•Global Donut Days 2025

•Jennifer Hinton – Post-Growth Business Dimensions

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